Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 15, 2023

Everything made sense—September was the seventh month, December was the tenth…so they just had to add two months named for Julius and Augustus Caesar to mess it up.

Before today I never knew there was more than one way to spell BUPKIS.

Harris and I have a lot in common. The older I get the slower I get. But, he’s a way better man than I still, if he can run in freezing weather and talk at the same time.

“When was the earthquake that destroyed all this?”

“It wasn’t an earthquake. It was an eruption of Vesuvius… behind me… and it happened in the year 79 AD., oward the end of the ides of June.”

“Ha. I thought only March had ides.”

“All Roman months had ides. Calends too.”

- (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

Run your feet, not your mouth.

This comic is way over my head, yet I still read it. Go figure.

“Beware the Ides of January…”

I like the idea of just not counting months in the winter. Although it was probably just their way of keeping a lunar calendar in sync with a solar year: Just stop and start again at the first new moon when the days are getting noticeably longer.

At least you don’t have the same pacing skills as Zeno. You’d never get anywhere.

So what was the time span for a “year” in biblical times when guys were around for over 900 of them?