The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 27, 2024

I’ll bet it was only $2.19.

But it has a cute puppy on it!

He should look for a 1941 or 2003 calendar; a 365 day year with New Year’s on a Wednesday. Find an old garage calendar from before you were married to remind her what nude women looked like then.

I got my Christmas card from my mortgage co today. Homeowners went up $900! So I go looking for new insurance, found one for $150 less but a lot better coverage. I KNOW…the new insurance co will raise my rates next year!

Why, they were almost giving them away.

Brutus is a man who likes to live in the past

And that’s what makes him the business typhoon he is.

You can reuse the 2019 calendar again in 2030, 2041, 2047, 2058, 2069, 2075

Hang on to it. You can use it again in 2030.

Great, more ammunition for Mother Gargoyle. As if she needs any.

It would have worked for part of this year. After February 29th of course.

Just think of what you have to look forward to!

duh

he meant to buy a colander…

Still preparing for Y2K

You should have bought a 2014 calendar. Then the days of the week would be the same in 2025 and you could use it.

Hard to find calendars nowadays. We used to get “For the love of… (whatever Dod/cat)” ours were always Schnauzers, at the local pet store, but I went to two different big pet store chains and they don’t carry calendars at all! When I asked they looked at me like I had two heads! “Check your phone Boomer!” :)

The calendar repeats every 28 years. I’m looking for a 1997 calendar now…

One time he bough an unabridged dictionary that was not in alphabetical order!

Should they have renamed it a 2024 calendar despite being a rerun from December 27, 2019?

Somebody wants to relive the past.

Off by 5 years, 2014 is the same as 2025.

My wife bragged how much she saved us on a nonstop flight to Tampa to see the grands. Only problem was she accidentally booked the 12:15 AM flight thinking it was 12:15 PM. After I changed she hadn’t saved us any money.

Hey , you still got a deal Brutus .

I have my 2025 calendar.

yeah, I’m sure that’s why… I always get a little worried when things get super low in price cause it makes me wonder if it’s any good or not. But sometimes you can get pretty lucky and be happy with it. Can’t say that in his case though… :j

No doubt. Brutus, no one to blame but yourself. However, had it been a 2014 Callender, it would have been pretty close to 2025 and not been as bad a deal….

2019 wasn’t such a bad year pre Covid. I’m sure we’ll look back at that year fondly compared to 2025 Happy New Year

I suppose he could still rearrange the order of days of the week at the top and it’ll still work. If he keeps doing that he wouldn’t have to buy another calendar. Cheapskate!

I hope the pictures are nice anyway.

Brutus didn’t get it from rat in Pearls Before Swine. It was a bad year with many big news stories, many of them tragic or otherwise awful. So, it shows him lighting the calendar on fire and says, “some years you just have to burn.” If only he had known what 2020 would bring.

Yikes! Brutus just wasted his money on days gone by….

If you could find an older one (at a bigger discount?) it would work – you can re-use the 2014 calendar in 2025.

Brutus that 2019 Calendar can be used again in 2030, 2041, 2047, 2058. At age 78 now , I am holding out for 2058. Be 112. I will be a Celebrity.

The back cover of the phone book used to have all 14 calendars printed on it. One for every day of the week, and one for every day of the week in a leap year.

I bet the 2020 calendars are cheap, nobody wants to relive that.

Brutus tries.

Never throw calendars away. Should they have a best used by date imprinted on the packaging?

They are like watches with dead batteries. Eventually they will be accurate and useful again. Same rule could apply to us old men, don’t throw us out before our best used by date. However in my case that date is long, long past. Recharging daily.

2019…before the world turned upside down…

I was browsing an artist’s work and a 2006 calendar was for sale.

We can just write in the correct numbers and it’ll be just fine.

Keep it until 2030. It will be reusable then.

Drug Mart has brand new 2025 s for $.75, Brutus.