Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for January 15, 2022

I bet the strip on the fridge is today’s Baldo strip.

Droste effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect

Example:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F21%2F55%2F94%2F21559451045049db9091c0aeb7ba5282.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Mister Google and Ms. Wiki tell me the Droste effect refers to a recursive picture-within-a-picture. It gets its name from the label on a tin of a Dutch brand of cocoa which showed a nun/nurse carrying a tray with a cup of cocoa and the very same tin on which she appears.

Be careful of the 4th wall

Back in the day, we always called it an ‘infinity picture.’ Big fan.

I learned a new term today for a phenomenon I always thought was cool. As a child, I used to hold a mirror up to a mirror and wish I could follow the tunnel into infinity.

in my experience, kids these days aren’t very good at recursive writing…

I feel like she would know the name for the effect, and now I know too.

It’s too early for philosophy…

It certainly is not funny!

Ad infinitum……

A restaurant I sometimes dine at ..restroom has full length mirrors on all 3 walls; except the entrance door ….talk about unsettling. (ᵒ̤̑ ₀̑ ᵒ̤̑)

I love it!

I had to look it up thus adding another bit of useless information to my already too large collection.

Gracie, It is funnier than a blow to the head or the crotch.

I know that Gracie is incredibly smart, but it really bugs me when she is smarter than any of the adults I know, including me.

But there are three of them, one in each panel. Dare I say, this is a triple Droste? Droste treble? Trifecta de Droste? Droste Effect Hat Trick?

Droste cocoa. Ohboy!

Isn’t Droste also the company that sells orange-flavored chocolate inside a box with open sides holding a foil-wrapped sphere that comes apart into chocolate molded as orange segments?

It was a dark and stormy night, and everybody was sitting around the campfire. And the captain said, “Tony, get up and tell us a story.” So Tony got up and said: “It was a dark and stormy night…”

Best ever was in the movie Spaceballs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=356faqb9JnU