Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 15, 2023

If you get paid per diem, that’s probably a lot of loot, too.

If I’m doing the math right, its more than 840,000 days to pluck. But either way…

I recently saw a video of Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining why he refuses to use BCE or CE which were invented to “de-Christianize” the calendar. But the calendar was established by Pope Gregory XIII and is the most accurate ever created, so Tyson will continue to used BC and AD.

Seize the day, seize Rome, where’s a barbarian when you need one?

The phrase is not a positive one. The biblical equivalent is ‘eat, drink, for tomorrow your soul will be required of you’…. The Latin word translated ‘seize’ means more like ‘cut down’.., at least that’s how Horace uses it in the poem.

a lot of days to get this right… ok, maybe not.

BC

Seize the moment!

ah yes, before the common era. I wonder what happened around that time that made us decide this era so common. Must have been quite the interesting event

Try to concentrate on this diem.

Actually, its the coming 509 days that are going to tell the future for the US. Lies, counter-lies, spies, wise guys, and idiots will sprout like dandelions, confusing the issues with misinformation, the voters with false promises, and the unwary with false hopes. The flash, the glitter, the hype will dull the senses and the spirit.

If Caulfield was ever old enough to run, I’d vote for him. He’s a thinker.

I thought carpe diem was fish of the day.

And more than 730,000 “carpes” too.

“As Latin scholar Maria S. Marsilio points out, “carpe diem” is a horticultural metaphor that, particularly seen in the context of the poem, is more accurately translated as “plucking the day,” evoking the plucking and gathering of ripening fruits or flowers, enjoying a moment that is rooted in the sensory experience of nature. “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may” is the famed Robert Herrick version.” JStor.com

So don’t go seizin’, y’all. Chillax. Enjoy.

With that many days, he should beware of having a seizure.

Carpe Gumby! Seize the flexibility…

Carpe crustalorum! Seize the Pastries! DK.

I prefer to Carpe Canem. Rewards are more immediate.

“Somebody’s gotta go back and get a sh!tload of diems!”

Caulfield, YOU’VE been repeating it ever since.

People claim I overthink, this might be true, but what you think of me may not be the way I think of you.

“Carpe diem!” -Horace 23 BCE.

Carpe Nocturn

Seize the day. There is no time like the present. Get something done today.