Kliban by B. Kliban for August 29, 2022

Those are just as valuable as the “real” ones.

Junk Food For Thought: The old Zodiac signs relating to mythological people and beasts are obsolete for us in the modern age. Since perceptions of configuration of star positions are often arbitrary according to culture, why not choose simple REAL signs such as: McDonald’s (The Arches), Twitter (The Bird), NBC (Peacock), Venn Diagram (MasterCard), National Geographic (Golden Door to Knowledge), Nike (Swoosh), MapQuest (Balloon Pointer), plus various Traffic Signs. (—

“Born under a Bad Sign,

I’ve been down since I began to crawl.

If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck…

If it wasn’t for real bad luck

I wouldn’t have no luck at all…”

—Albert King, “Born Under a Bad Sign,” 1967, covered by Cream, same year

In Pohl and Kornbluth’s novel “Search the Sky”, colonists on another planet named their constellations after Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, and Clark Gable.

Let us not forget The Debtor, The House Cat, The Lawnmower, The Mailbox and The Two-Car Garage. (I guess you can tell I’m not from around here.) :)

I was born under the sign of No Parking 8-11 am Mondays and Thursdays.

These are more like tarot minor arcana cards.

Your missing one, “The Sign of the Times”. Many people are so entuned to time—where it has gone, if you could go back in time; the time it takes to do mundane things……

I was born under the sign of the Carpet. It was a dificult delivery.