Mr. Knott here has been head of discipline at Griswalds at least since Ryan was a student here. He wears that eyepatch because his eye was put out by the stick of a lollipop launched by a sort of Rube-Goldberg device built by Tim Jones (Ryan’s brother-in-law, former music reviewer for City Limit, briefly Mayor of Tackleford until he lost a mad science duel and was exiled to Wales) as a method of demonstrating principles of physics to Ryan.
Ryan took the fall for that, to protect Tim, and dropped out of school to work at Percy’s pea factory (which we saw in the last case), where he languished for several years until Shelley Winters (Erin’s older sister, though she currently doesn’t remember Erin ever existed) convinced him that he could do better than living in squalor and canning peas for a living. He bounced around between various situations for a while, was part of a terrible band with Tim and some of the other guys from City Limit, got a pet bat, infiltrated a postal service smuggling ring, moved in with Shelley and Amy, dated Lottie’s sister Sarah, and eventually, when Scary-Go-Round ended with Shelley and Sarah, among others, leaving town, finally got together with Amy and has ended up married to her, an expectant father, and teaching at the school he dropped out of, alongside the man whose eye he took the blame for putting out.
He has Occam wrong. It’s also called the principle of minimum assumption, i. e. the simplest explanation. “Nothing” requires a very small number of assumptions.
John Campbell about 1 year ago
Mr. Knott here has been head of discipline at Griswalds at least since Ryan was a student here. He wears that eyepatch because his eye was put out by the stick of a lollipop launched by a sort of Rube-Goldberg device built by Tim Jones (Ryan’s brother-in-law, former music reviewer for City Limit, briefly Mayor of Tackleford until he lost a mad science duel and was exiled to Wales) as a method of demonstrating principles of physics to Ryan.
Ryan took the fall for that, to protect Tim, and dropped out of school to work at Percy’s pea factory (which we saw in the last case), where he languished for several years until Shelley Winters (Erin’s older sister, though she currently doesn’t remember Erin ever existed) convinced him that he could do better than living in squalor and canning peas for a living. He bounced around between various situations for a while, was part of a terrible band with Tim and some of the other guys from City Limit, got a pet bat, infiltrated a postal service smuggling ring, moved in with Shelley and Amy, dated Lottie’s sister Sarah, and eventually, when Scary-Go-Round ended with Shelley and Sarah, among others, leaving town, finally got together with Amy and has ended up married to her, an expectant father, and teaching at the school he dropped out of, alongside the man whose eye he took the blame for putting out.guinevere25 about 1 year ago
wow
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 1 year ago
That’s a remarkably fair assessment in the last panel.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Shave off all her hair to be an example to others? Something tell me that Shauna reads a lot of manga.
scyphi26 about 1 year ago
One thing has always been certain about Mr. Knott—he’s good at his job.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 1 year ago
In the final panel Calvin seems pleased to discover that some things about school never change, whatever the year.
6turtle9 about 1 year ago
Wait. Did Calvin and Vinnie just emerge from the same room the girls went into?
Urbane Gorilla about 1 year ago
Cal-VIN, VIN-nie. Can you meet yourself while time travelling?
willie_mctell about 1 year ago
He has Occam wrong. It’s also called the principle of minimum assumption, i. e. the simplest explanation. “Nothing” requires a very small number of assumptions.