That's hawt.

Farmhand Cummington?

I need a Farmhand Cummington Bloomers!

Panels 3 and 4 of this strip [goats.com] suggest that Topekans (not just Weetabix Bloomers) are long-lived compared to denizens of Manhattan 3. Discuss. For full credit, your discussion should include a justified estimate of the average Topekan lifespan.

Well... we know that Wheatina has ruled Topeka for . Since she seems to have been middle-aged when she first rose to the throne, I would argue that she's around 400-500 years old right now.

Weetabix, however, is... old. Very old. In this strip we have a picture of what appears to be [goats.com] a young Weetabix [goats.com]. He was thus just over three hundred years old when the Topekan-Pangean war first erupted. The problem is that that was over six thousand years ago [goats.com], according to Yakmeat. Weetabix is thus now at least 6300 years old. His appearance has also apparently not changed between the age of 300 and 6300.

That doesn't seem right to me. The fact that he aged to have grey hair to begin with suggest that Topekans are not immortal... but his looking the same after 6000 years is just problematic. I thus propose that Weetabix was imported by the same program Jon was using to drop lunchboxes on people. Hence his loose affiliation with the devil. This would also explain the lack of ageing.

An alternative explanation would be cloning, as Weetabix's genetic code would undoubtedly be patented by the Topekan Empire.

If the problem of the missing 6000 years is solved, it all becomes simple, as we have two instances of 200-300 year periods where a middle aged person becomes grey haired. Thus, I propose that the normal Topekan life cycle (or at least the life cycle enjoyed by the Topekan ruling elite) is around 500 years. Farmella, I imagine, is about 100-200 years old.

The reasons for this aren't hard to imagine. The Topekans are very interested in genetic engineering, for instance. Though Topeka is an agrarian society, it's important to remember that they're much more advanced technologically than we are. If they can make cows into computers, then I can imagine that they can make their people live longer.

Oh geez, I messed up one of my links while editing. Damn it! Why doesn't this forum have an edit feature?

Another plausible solution:

As mentioned in the current strip [goats.com], Farmella's Aunt Lois is her cousin as well, suggesting complex inbreeding.

If complex inbreeding is routine among the ruling elite of Topeka Prime, it is quite plausible (especially given their knowledge of genetic manipulation) that other persons, very similar in appearance to Weetabix, existed in the past. In fact, it is possible that Wheetabix is represents the ideal in male anatomy as appreciated by their society and everyone attempts to appear similar.

Or it could be one more thing attributable to Jon's inability to draw more than two people [goats.com].

Makes me wonder where Ms Bludress fits into this.

An A for you, messed up links or not.

By the way, the fact that we don't know the length of a Topekan year compared to a Manhattan 3 year doesn't help any of our speculations.