Damned if I know son.
ETA: link always goes to “today”, so will not link correct strip after Saturday.
Erectile dysfunction. Apparently a commercial for Viagra came on during the game.
Erectile dysfunction
E.D. is erectile dysfunction, i.e, impotence. The father and young son were watching the game when an ad for E.D. medication came on. He wants the ad to get over with before his son asks him about it, because he doesn’t want to talk to his young son about erectile dysfunction. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get his wish.
I think this link will continue to show the Saturday strip in question.
Cialis is the big ad buyer nowadays.
To expand - Dad and Hammie are watching the game. An ad - or, probably more than one - for an ED drug came on. Dad wants the game to come back on and distract Hammie before the question can percolate to the top of his mind, because he doesn’t want to have to explain to his toddler about erections and erectile dysfunction. (Is Hammie still a toddler? I know the kids age - I remember when Hammie was BORN - but I’m not sure how fast.)
He’s frozen at the age of 4 now, I think.
Are these the ads where the woman wanders around looking blissful and singing a song about how she loves it in the afternoon best of all?
'Cause I love them ads.
There’s actually a series…there’s the woman who prefers to play in the afternoon, and one in the evening, so far.
And I love them, too.
But they never come right out and say what the medication is FOR, so probably not the ones that prompted Hammie’s question. (Although I can imagine him trying to stop the kids singing that song… ‘But I do like playing in the afternoon…’)
According to the Wikipedia entry, Zoe’s birth was in the strip on January 7, 1990, but she’s supposed to be 9. Hammie’s birth was in the strip on April 29, 1995, but he’s supposed to be 6 and 1/2. Wren’s birth was in the strip on October 26, 2002, but she’s supposed to be 1:
The strip’s creators claim that the children are aging at about 1/3 of the normal rate. I think a better way of estimating their age in the strip is the following:
It takes seven years of the strip for them to age from 0 to 1.
It then takes two and a half years of the strip for them to age from 1 to 2.
It then takes two years of the strip for them to age from 2 to 3.
It then takes one and a half years of the strip for them to age from 3 to 4.
It then takes one year of the strip for them to age from 4 to 5.
It then takes a half year of the strip for them to age from 5 to 6.
It then takes one year of the strip for them to age from 6 to 7.
It then takes one and a half years of the strip for them to age from 7 to 8.
It then takes two years of the strip for them to age from 8 to 9.
No, it doesn’t make any sense to me either.
Another screw strip is “Peanuts”: at first, Charlie Brown and Lucy van Pelt were the same grade, and Linus was Lucy’s much-younger brother (maybe 3-4). Then Linus aged until he was the same grade as Charlie Brown and presumedly the same as Lucy (but they’re never said to be twins).
Then Sally came into the strip as Charlie Brown’s baby sister. She then aged until she was a grade behind CB.
Rerun van Pelt came along, and he’s aged to about kindergarten.
And Schroeder, arguably CB’s best friend after Linus, was introduced as a baby (Patty’s next door neighbor), then aged over the next 3 years until he and CB were the same age.