Adam’s daughter is going to have a real eye-awakening experience in about a decade or so when she gets online and finds strips like these in the archives.
We have a 2-yr-old step-grandson, and I’m pretty sure, Adam, that you have it exactly backwards: if you measure the velocity of the mess, you’ll find that the child is the *source.* In my experience at least, the child is more of a supernova, hurling mess like a star flings plasma around; he’s still at the centre of the mess, but it’s expanding outward, and if we mop the ceiling with him, it would make the ceiling grubby, sticky, and covered in toys.
Of course, your little bug is a girl while mine is a boy. it’s possible that your child is more similar to a black hole, pulling messes towards her. We’ll have to get the folks at XKCD to investigate any quantitative differences in mess vs à vis gender.
That’s what I was thinking. Kids don’t *attract* messes, they create them, wholesale, out of nothing. Pratchett used the following description for a child in Wee Free Men:
“Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn’t seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.”
I’m pretty sure it applies to all children age 5 and under.
We have a new 2-yr-old step-grandchild, and I’m pretty sure that you have it exactly backwards, Adam. In our case at least, the child is the source of mess, hurling mess forth like an exploding star spews plasma. But at a single point in time, the effect appears similar: the child is at the centre of a mess. You’d have to measure the velocity of the mess to find out which way it’s going.
Now, our new person is a boy, and your bug is a girl, so there may be a gender bias in mess-collection/ejection ability. We’ll have to get the folks at XKCD to look into mess distribution vis à vis gender.
Awesome. Just effin’ awesome. One comment doesn’t show up, so I post a second one and they both display for all the world to note my repetitive nay-saying.
I tried to exploit this trait with my 1yo daughter while teaching her how to walk at the same time with a custom made cart, but so far with little success.
I imagine this is not the first (and certainly not the last) time that Adam’s idea on what to do with his child is spoiled by CPS.
Now that’s a new kind of child labor.
Adam’s daughter is going to have a real eye-awakening experience in about a decade or so when she gets online and finds strips like these in the archives.
This may explain why Niece Bug is something of a dangerous individual. “You used me to for what?!?”
We have a 2-yr-old step-grandson, and I’m pretty sure, Adam, that you have it exactly backwards: if you measure the velocity of the mess, you’ll find that the child is the *source.* In my experience at least, the child is more of a supernova, hurling mess like a star flings plasma around; he’s still at the centre of the mess, but it’s expanding outward, and if we mop the ceiling with him, it would make the ceiling grubby, sticky, and covered in toys.
Of course, your little bug is a girl while mine is a boy. it’s possible that your child is more similar to a black hole, pulling messes towards her. We’ll have to get the folks at XKCD to investigate any quantitative differences in mess vs à vis gender.
Argh. Proffreading for the win. That should end with “vis à vis gender.”
That’s what I was thinking. Kids don’t *attract* messes, they create them, wholesale, out of nothing. Pratchett used the following description for a child in Wee Free Men:
“Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn’t seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.”
I’m pretty sure it applies to all children age 5 and under.
We have a new 2-yr-old step-grandchild, and I’m pretty sure that you have it exactly backwards, Adam. In our case at least, the child is the source of mess, hurling mess forth like an exploding star spews plasma. But at a single point in time, the effect appears similar: the child is at the centre of a mess. You’d have to measure the velocity of the mess to find out which way it’s going.
Now, our new person is a boy, and your bug is a girl, so there may be a gender bias in mess-collection/ejection ability. We’ll have to get the folks at XKCD to look into mess distribution vis à vis gender.
Awesome. Just effin’ awesome. One comment doesn’t show up, so I post a second one and they both display for all the world to note my repetitive nay-saying.
Welll, this time you got the vis-à-vis right, save for the hyphens that is. Third time’s a charm?
Shouldn’t we have a new comic strip by now?
I tried to exploit this trait with my 1yo daughter while teaching her how to walk at the same time with a custom made cart, but so far with little success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDFP3k8zBQ