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Crumble Cult 
Dear Tony,
My daughter uses “zoop” as a verb to describe a similar motion of cartoon characters. For instance. “Mr. Krabs zooped up into the air, and Squidward had a funny look on his face when he saw it.” This is invariably accompanied by the “zooping” hand motion, which is a lot like swooshing, but way more fun.
I like the “heh heh heh” at the end. It sounds delightfully evil in my head.
All My Love,
Jennifer
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Children do have a more intuitive way of explaining these things, don’t you find? And zoop is just, like, one of the coolest words ever! 馃槈
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It really is. 馃檪
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Poor Ernest! 馃檪
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Even cosmic spectacles avoid his gaze. Poor guy.
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Is his voice identical to yours? The “then” at the end of his aside got me to wondering.
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Well, actually, come to think of it his voice probably would be the same as mine. Ernest is somewhat based on me after all. 馃槢
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I remember a solar eclipse when I was a kid. The teachers wouldn’t let us go outside at recess that day because they were afraid we would burn our retinas.
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The same thing happened to us when I was in primary school. It was so funny because as soon as they told us not to look… well, what did we end up wanting to go ahead and do? 馃槈
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When we had a partial eclipse in primary school, some people had special glasses from the newspapers, and we worked out that you could look at it in the tinted glass doors.
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Ha! That’s awesome. It would’ve looked trippy that way! 馃檪
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No burnt eyes for Ernest.
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Well, there’s always a bright side, isn’t there! No pun intended… 馃槈
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Reminds me of some tweets we exchanged. heh
Our next total eclipse is in 2090 I believe, the last one being in 1998. Boring Belgium
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So, you’ve only got to survive another seventy-eight years to get to see this once in a lifetime event, eh? Easy peasy! 馃槈
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Luckily for me, I *only* have to survive until the age of 95 to see it. And that’s considering I am in Belgium at the time.
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Ninety-five? Pffft! Easy peasy! 馃槈
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I live in Belgium, land of dangerous drivers. Not so easy…
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Hmmm… I would suggest perhaps driving around in a tank. And parking would be no bother then! 馃槢
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The funny thing is that driving a tank is perfectly legal in Belgium, if you have the license.
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I’m not sure if I find that cool or somewhat disturbing! 馃槢
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lucky ernest didn,t turn around because those who watched the real thing had “burnt eyes”the next day,there will be another solar eclipse in 16 years time,maybe ernest will “see’ that eclipse.keep the strips and podcasts coming Tony.
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Thanks mate! Yeah, better to catch the eclipse on the six o’clock news, eh? Much easier on the eyes! 馃槈
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