Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Happy Alcoholidays

I like to include a lot of vintage "fad" toys in my strips. Here's one with the thermodynamically powered drinking bird also known as bobble, happy, dippy, dipping, tippy, tipping, sippy, sipping, sippy-dip, dip-dip, dinking, dinky-dinky or dunking birds depending on which part of the planet you live in. It was invented in 1945 by Miles V. Sullivan who was a Ph.D. inventor-scientist at Bell labs in Murray Hill, NJ, USA. I don't know if it would actually work with alcohol as it would be liable to evaporation than water.

3 comments:

Chimpster said...

They can work without water as well.

J. Lemon said...

Thanks for the comment Chimpster.

J. Lemon said...

I got an email about this strip a while ago from some sharp-eyed reader pointing out I forgot to color Eightball's left glove. Well spotted.