FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 18, 2022

Every time Dad and I go to Utah, we at times make a stop to Provo to see Brigham Young University and reminisce the buildings at which he studied.

Yup, he’s certifiable, all right.

I’ve never measured my success by the success of others. In fact, I tend not to measure my success (or lack of it) at all. I stay happier that way.

Sometimes the best way to win the game is not to play.

And hanging on the wall will be his Cerificate of Moronity. (Moronness? Moronicity?)

No, no,dummy. You need to gloat audibly about how you might not have the snazziest job, but you have the hottest wife. Just make sure she hears you gloating.

“Jeff Thompson is an actual college friend. Why waste a good insult on a fictitious name, right?”~ Bill Amend

You remember Jeff. Glasses, computer classes, always carried a calculator, pocket protector, no friends. Built his own Pong game from scratch.

My class was a bunch of low lifes. I placed in the top ten!

It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how long you stay in the game.

Never go to a reunion. Their purpose, like school, is to make you feel bad.

There is also the “Jeff Thompson Chair for Mathematics and Physics”

I like the Willot College alumni magazine Andy is looking at. Typical of alumni magazines the back page shows “Give! Give! Give!”.

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care about their opinions more than our own.” – Marcus Aurelius

Thank you , Joshua. How about a nice game of chess?

Alumni postings are like Christmas letters. Let’s all revel in everyone else’s perfect life:)

Keep in mind, a few years ago publications like that were saying how Elizabeth Holmes was a great success, how she “never let life pass her by”, how she “revolutionized the world”. Don’t see too many of those accolades today, wonder why?

that magazine is confirmation bias on paper. How many thousands of people are in a typical graduating class? A few of them may go on to do historical things or become rich, a few might become infamous criminals or die tragically, but the vast majority are going to live perfectly satisfying and happy yet mediocre lives that nobody will feel the need to report on.

When I first graduated from college, I didn’t know a single person who I graduated with. I have never been invited to an alumni reunion or anything. I don’t even know if anybody knew I existed.

Not Thomas Jefferson?

Roger has suddenly realized that he has truly hit rock bottom. You have reached your destination.

Roger is a loser alright. That is why the strip is called Suxtrot.