Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for July 28, 2022

Using “petite-nosed” in the description is a dead giveaway that something’s not right.

Get a pair of elevator shoes.

Say you, Say me…

She would have been 65 in 1986.

It was a simpler time, when you didn’t have to find a photo of someone to paste on a dating site.

Opus might be right, Nancy Reagan was born in 1921 which would make her 64 or 65 when this strip was printed in ‘86 depending on the date but shaving a year or 2 off of one’s age is not a crime but a lot of other things done by occupants of The White House over the years most certainly have been!

If you want to get picky, picky, picky he’s none of the other things either. :-p

OK, that takes care of the first item on the list. Next—?

Opus hopes that alternative facts will provide a perspective that will enhance his leveraging.

At least he no longer has yesterday’s haircut.

“This has nothing to do with love,

This has more and more to do with diction.

Nothing to do with love,

This has mostly to do with a quick turn of a cute phrase—

And a knack for fiction!"

—from Personals: The Musical

Everything’s relative. Tall compared to some. Who has a bigger honker than Opus, though? I still love my Opus – he hasn’t changed at all in 35 years.

Liar ! Liar! Pants on fire!

Oh, wait.

Opus doesn’t wear pants. That kinda ruins the whole bit, doesn’t it?

How about escalator shoes?