Red and Rover by Brian Basset for September 29, 2024

Plus ultra (Latin: [pluːs ˈʊltraː], Spanish: [plus ˈultɾa], English: “Further beyond”) is a Latin phrase and the national motto of Spain. A reversal of the original phrase non plus ultra (“Nothing further beyond”), said to have been inscribed as a warning on the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar (which marked the edge of the known world in antiquity), it has metaphorical suggestions of taking risks and striving for excellence. Its original version, the personal motto of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, also Duke of Burgundy and King of Spain, was Plus oultre in French. The motto was adopted some decades after Christopher Columbus traveled to Guanahaní.

Good that we see Red in separate clothing for each of the different days covered in today’s strip.

Can do attitude! With attitude you will gain altitude!

I’m glad Red finally explained himself. It’s not the winning, but the doing!

……and the ole buddy might slip or get distracted by a car!!!

Neither of them ever gets tired of the game.

It kind of looks like Rover kind of “jumps the gun” every time.

they’re too young for guns

That’s a race Red can’t lose!

Bravo. We can’t all be the best but we all can be the the best that are potential allows……

You don’t have to be the best at what you do. You can be the only one that does what you do!

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

—Vince Lombardi

Red need to carry a decoy stuffed squirrel to distract Rover….

Way to go, Red.

Someday Rover will let you win or at least come close ….. Won’t you …… Rover ….. :)

Are you going back for your book??

I was getting too old to race with my niece, so I would agree to a race, and just after she started I said, “No, that’s okay. You win.” She didn’t like winning that way.