Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 17, 2023

Actually, the real bug is that they forgot to have a year Zero.

Think they indicated the date by the years of each emperors reign like many societies did, or whoever was consul before they had emperors. You know we’re talking about people who had hours that varied in length depending on the season right?

Ancient peoples with cell phones also had to deal with expensive Roman charges.

Simple solution: just welease Bwian. Oh, and Romanes Eunt Domus!

At the risk of being pedantic, or anal, this toon was a year early, since the century and millennium didn’t end until a year later. After 10/100/1000 years had passed. January 1, 2000 was the first day of the last year of the decade/century/millennium. For whatever that’s worth…

Way back in 1999, I decided to check and see if there was anything to worry about. I changed the clock on my computer ahead to 11:55 on 12/31/1999, then watched to see what would happen. Nothing did, it just changed to 1/1/2000 with no problem. So I knew there would be no problem when the real thing came.

It’s the Year One Dancing Bug if you ask me . . .

Where can I find those slave girls? Y’know, so I can free them, deprogram whatever social conditioning made them slaves, give them resources about radical feminism (trans-inclusive of course), and then let them loose on the patriarchy?

These Romans are crazy.

Funny strip, Ruben – but if you’re using that obsolete dating system, the A.D. (“Anno Domini”, Latin for “Year Of Our Lord”) goes before the number.

I have often frivolously wondered if all those negative year people were curious about what event they were looking forward to. And what then of all those who lived between 0 and 525 AD? Was that limbo?

Y2K was very good to me. I got a 30% raise.

Oh and the famous ‘vomitōria’ were exits whence crowds spewed forth (though it does come from ’vomō’—with had the obvious meaning.)

And it continues to carry over into debates when, exactly, each new century starts.

While there was no “Year Zero,” it seems self-evident to me that “Week Zero” was the time between Jesus’s birth and January 1, Year One. Otherwise, almost all of “AD 1” would actually have been Before Christ. Therefore, the year “1 BC” was only 51 weeks long.

:-)

Two disparate groups profited from Y2K. Comic writers and gun salespeople