Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 01, 2016

A peck: something you give your aunt because your mother tells you to.

A bushel’s a unit of volume. Is this Calvin’s mistake, or Bill’s?

A peck of oysters is not a unit of weight, but is always welcome!

I’ve always liked today’s strip. Don’t even know why. Just really liked it.

Math not, but smooch!!

“I love you, a bushel and a peck,

A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck."

From my Arkansas-born father, c. 1920.

orinoco womble

Your father was Frank Loesser???!?!?!?!

What’s a ‘ha’?A short laugh.Actually the abbreviation for hectare = 10000m²

If my math was like this growing up, i wouldn’t get it either.

A peck is two gallons.A gallon is two half gallons.A half gallon is two quarts.A quart is two pints.A pint is two cups.Two C cups are always nice!

A few Pecks may lead to the Bushel.

Some interesting old measurements. Betcha could still find them in some books.

Here’s a few lines from an old song, done by Doris Day, Perry Como, and I’m sure others – available on YouTube:

I love you a bushel and a peckA bushel and a peck and a hug around the neckA hug around the neck and a barrel and a heapA barrel and a heap and I’m talkin’ in my sleep

A peck:A hero who saves Elora Danan.

What the peck?

It’s not a measure of weight. It’s a measure of volume. Odd that Watterson didn’t know that.

It’s no less confusing than the alleged ‘new math’

I went to elementary school in the 50’s, and I remember being taught about pecks. (It’s about two gallons.) But I have to admit that I have never, outside of those classes, had any reason to refer to a peck or in any way make use of the knowledge. It was a hangover, even back then, from the days in which the U.S. was an agricultural society. I suppose someone thought it was important that we know what it was, event though everyone who had any reason to know already knew. .Watterson, in fact, didn’t know what a peck was, either, since it’s a unit of volume, not weight.(I say didn’t know, because I’m sure hundreds of people have corrected him by now.)

Based upon the comments, I’d say today’s strip doesn’t measure up…

A peck is equal to four farthings per furlong.

Who gives a peck!?!

Over the years I’ve encountered many obscure measurement units. For example, how many fathoms in a league? How many rods in a furlong?

That’s why smart countries went Metric years ago. Actually the USA did in the 1860’s, but we still allow the idiotic sold systems to be used in commerce.

♪♫Oh the barrel, half barrel, gallon, half gallon, pint pot, half a pint, gill, half a gill, quarter gill, nipperkin and a round bowlHere’s good luck, good luck, to the barley mow♪♫

For some reason, this one is my all-time favorite Calvin and Hobbes strip.

smooch

You’re not the only one, Calvin. Maths was my worst subject at school.

xxx

Hated Math in school and still do.

Someone actually told me that when I was a kid, it screwed up my math for months. ;-)

There was a song, whose lyrics I partially know:*“I love you a bushel and a peckBushel and a peckBushel and a peck*I love you a bushel and a peck????”*VERY catchy tune and deep lyrics

Oh, O.W. already gave the better lyrics.

Let’s go find a, “Wood” pecker.

…what about Gregory?

Thank you! I was reviewing the comments wondering why nobody mentioned the most famous Peck of all; mostly thanks to To Kill A Mockingbird…

Lol Hobbes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw2phldcmCQ

But how many pecks add us to a hug around the neck?

It’s still common practice to report harvest yield, regardless of the crop, in ‘bushels per acre’. The capacity/volume measure is preferred because the weight can vary quite a bit, depending on the % of moisture content.

Goodnight Calvin, good night Hobbes.

I love youA bushel and a peckA bushel and a peck and a hug around the neckA hug around the neck and a barrel and a heapA barrel and a heap and I’m talking in my sleepAbout you, about you . . .

Hasn’t anyone ever heard this before?

Seems like pretty intense stuff for a six-year-old (unless I am getting his age wrong). I was leaning my addition subtraction then.