Puffy Coat

 

I got a puffer trench coat from Costco a few years ago and it has sufficient pockets. Trying to find a particular thing can be difficult, and removing just the desired thing can be tricky, but I love this coat. It's so warm and can hold all my things. 

Explanation: In Doctor Who, his "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" ship looks like a Police Call Box (basically an opaque phone booth) and is "bigger on the inside" as there's a whole multi-room, multi-level space ship in there. There also is one Doctor who likes bow-ties and thinks they are cool.

Text:
D: Wow, your coat pockets are stuffed full!
L: All the winter essentials - hat, gloves, chapstick, DD gift card, tissues, pen, change purse, and such.
D: ... is it a TARDIS?
L: And glowsticks, clean Pull-Up and wipes, cough drops, ...

Gym Humor: Knee Edition

 

So glad this is not a True Story, but I did think of it at the gym and I do wear a wrap on my left knee when exercising (specifically when on the treadmill). 

Explanation: the opposite of right can be either left (direction) or wrong (correction). But that does not mean left equals wrong.

Text:
Title: At the Gym
PT: You're wearing that brace on your wrong knee.
L: ... what???
PT: Because it's not on your right knee!!!

Home Project: Toddler Helper

 

Happy Birthday Eve to my Dad! He taught me many home repair skills, and has repaired and improved so much of my house.

You know what they say: teamwork makes the dream work, except when your teammate is a literal two-year-old. But you let them help now (when they really aren't helpful but have the desire to help), with the hopes that they will keep helping later (when they have the skills but often not the desire to help).

Text:
Title: Home Projects
O: Want to help you!
M: I know you do, but this is something you currently don't have the skills to do. *SNAP* And apparently, neither do I.

Change that Heart

 

True story - Ori has done this. We did not respond quite like this (more like saying the sun is not up so our son should not be up). 

Explanation: we change into day clothes when the sun is above the horizon, definitely not when it's closer to midnight than noon. 

Text:
A: What do you do when your toddler comes in your room at 3am demanding to change out of his pjs?
L: Tell him the only change happening at this hour is a change of heart.
M: Regeneration!

Winter Olympics Amp Up

 

I'm writing this while watching the Olympics Figure Skating Exhibition Gala so my attention is a bit split. The Italian pair started with the macarena and ended with cotton-eyed Joe. You just never know what the next act will be. Apparently it's Greatest Showman, which is fitting for this event. 

Explanation: The halfpipe is a slope built up on the sides to resemble the bottom half of a circular pipe. A whole-pipe would, in my mind, be like a Hot Wheels loop-de-loop track. 

Text:
A: How can we make the Winter Olympics more exciting? Snowboarding ideas?
B: Halfpipe is OUT! Wholepipe is IN!
A: Like a Hot Wheels track!!!

Chocolate Coins

My kids received chocolate coins for Christmas and they have actual currency emblems on them. Some confusion happened. But the coins are tasty.

Explanation: The emblem of a country can be called a seal. Some emblems have birds on them, like eagles. A seal is also an aquatic mammal. So a seal can be a bird but the other seal can not be a bird.

Apologies for any typos - I'm watching the Olympics Figure Skating Exhibition Gala while writing this up and it's such a delight to watch professionals just have fun and be amazing. I highly recommend looking up past Winter Olympic Galas on YouTube. 

Text:
R: What is the bird on this chocolate coin?
M: It's an eagle because that's the seal.
L: Well, is it an eagle or a seal? Those are different animals. 
M: *unimpressed*
R: *confused*

Grayson Truth

 

Happy belated Birthday to my niece!
My kiddo has a gray dinosaur named Grayson. Answers in Genesis has some great Bible verse songs. Misunderstandings can happen. 

Explanation: As I point out in the comic, "Grayson" and "grace and" sound rather similar. 

Text:
Title: John 1:14
Song: We have seen His glory - full of grace and truth
R: That's my dinosaur's name!
L: Grace. And. Truth. Not Grayson truth. 

Bear Trees

 

Or should it be:

But perhaps:

I could not decide which version I liked best so here are three of them. When drawing these, I was reminded of an old commercial for Discover Card where there's a guy with loads of frogs in his house asking about frog protection and the agent over the phone is like, yeah we have fraud protection.

Explanation: "Bare" means empty, like a tree in winter. "Bear" is an animal. Both words sound the same, hence the confusion in this set of comics.

Text:

Patron: I commissioned a landscape painting of bare trees - what is this?!?
Artist: These are bear trees - see them peeking through the leaves?
OR
Artist: There is at least one bear in every tree - what more could you want?!
OR 
Artist: "Bear Trees" features several varieties - this tree has a koala while this one has a grizzly. 

Recipe Substitution

 

Happy Birthday Eve to my niece! 
Oh my child, this is a lesson we all need to learn. There are some subs that work, and many more that don't. But I do like that you were trying to come up with a solution. If you want the recipe we use, it's on Tasty.co. Just three ingredients, so you really need each ingredient. For humor, I recently saw a post where a lady talked about how people had changed her recipe then complained that the recipe didn't work and her response was, you didn't make my recipe. 

Text:
R: Can we make brigadeiros?
L: No, we need sweetened condensed milk for that. 
R: Can we use eggs instead? Or just sugar?
L: Please never comment on recipe blogs.

Singular Spaghetti

 

So at the Olympics Opening Ceremony, they mentioned paparazzi which is the plural form of Paparazzo who was a persistent news photographer in an Italian movie in the mid-1900's. And the commentators mentioned that spaghetti is plural but you never eat just one spaghetto, and the same for other pastas that end in "i" - it's the plural form of that noodle. The more you know...

Haha, I just had a thought that a couple could try to Lady & The Tramp this spaghetto but just keep inhaling noodle only to realize it's a full serving size noodle. 

Text:
A: I heard you made pasta this weekend - did you make spaghetti?
B: No, it's one long noodle - it's spaghetto. *holding plate with one massively long thin noodle on it*

Abacus Ticketer

 

I would like someone to try this and see how it turns out. Let me know. Could be fun. Most likely will be awkward. 

Explanation: An abacus is an ancient mathematical counting device using beads on a grid. Many workplaces have a ticketing system where problems are described on tickets and workers can take a ticket to solve that problem. 

Text:
B: Ticket 103 needs to be completed by Friday - can I count on you to do it?
N: Just call me abacus.
B: I'm... not gonna do that, but I will assign the ticket to you.

Cinderella vs Encanto

 

I didn't realize that the name has been used in two different movies until my kids pointed it out. Now I'm trying to think of other names that have been reused but I'm coming up blank. There are so many movies, surely they aren't all unique. But they have a lot of specific names like Cinderella and Snow White and such. Well, Prince Charming is used a few times I believe. But is it really, or do I just not remember the guy's name because the princess is the main character of the story? 

Explanation: Bruno is the name of the hound dog in Cinderella (1950). Bruno is also one of the uncles in Encanto (2021). 

Text:
Title: In our Cinderella Era
Music: We don't talk about Bruno - No no No ...
R: The DOG?!
O: *shocked*
L: Disney reused a name? I guess it has been 70 years.

Trinity Question

 

So we listen to the catechisms sung on "Ask Me Whoooo" which is an excellent set of albums available on Spotify, YoutTubeMusic, and other places surely, including in disc form. My youngest only knows the first few, and is hindering himself in learning more. 

Text:
Music: In how many persons does this one God exist? In three Persons.
O: I don't know this one (spoken over the answer portion)
L: Buddy.

Tastes of Coffee

 

We don't drink coffee in my house - we have several types of instant coffee for visitors but we don't own a coffee maker. How my child thinks she knows what coffee tastes like is a mystery to me. She has smelled it before, when out and about, but not often. I usually make herbal or Earl Grey for her, but one morning I had made chai for myself and brewed a second cup for her when she asked, and I think the spices surprised her. We are drinking out of our coordinated strawberry mugs that my sister-in-law gave to us. It's fun to have matching or coordinated mugs. Often, it's actually better to not totally match because that makes it easy to swap mugs and if you make different teas, that's an unpleasant surprise. 

Text:
R: What kind of tea is this?
L: Chai.
R: It tastes like coffee.
L: ... How do you know how coffee tastes?!?
R: *unhinged laugh*

Girl Grey Tea

 

I have been introducing my preschooler to tea, usually a weakened form of whatever I'm drinking. Earl Grey is my favorite basic tea but Lady Earl Grey is preferred when I can find it. I also have been buying custom blends from Plum Deluxe and they have many Earl Grey varieties which I have enjoyed (especially Gratitude Blend or Picard Black). 

Text:
R: What kind of tea is this?
L: Earl Grey.
R: That's almost a girl tea because "earl" sounds like "girl."
L: Let me tell you about Lady Earl Grey.