FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 07, 2012

Lots of “chloride”. Not so much “chlorine”.

Yes you did! Great thinks mind alike!.wait..

If it was chloride, it wouldn’t smell like a swimming pool.

Actually, people do have salt water swimming pools and I’ve heard claims that they’re easier to maintain though I doubt it since I know a couple of people who have tried to do salt water aquariums and those are a real pain.

As for calling it in advance, I’ll go with tomorrow being Paige shopping for clothes for the trip.

Chlorine ocean… needs more salt

The thump I expected him to hear was her fist on his head, and his head on the floor.

Roger Fox can be a REAL dummy sometimes. I would much rather go to the REAL ocean and not some mockup.

As clueless as Roger is here, I have to admit I probably would prefer “Islands of Fun-Fun Caribbeanny Resort” to St. Martin or Anguilla (much to my wife’s chagrin). I can have fun for a day or two at a water park, but a beach? Not so much.

If I were her, I wouldn’t complain….at least the old man’s a big spender….

i guess his office job salary can’t pay for a real carribean vacation.

Not quite.Na Cl in solution disassociates int Na+ and Cl-.Cl- in water forms HOCl and ClO-.ClO- is a very strong oxidizer and disinfectant.Most people are familiar with ClO- as laundry bleach, in the form of a 5% solution of Calcium Hypochlorite (Ca(ClO)2).

Salt water pools with 2000 ppm of NaCl (too little to taste) use electrolysis to produce higher concentrations of ClO- in the water.

Maybe is should be a science class! I haven’t seen one “learned” comment here which would be forgivable in a first year Chemistry class!

Artificial Caribbean. I wonder if there are any pirates in it.

Actually, I would want to go to that resort, if that were all I knew about it…

She really needs to stop letting him pick the vacations.