MythTickle by Justin Thompson for March 21, 2012

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    w9cwd  almost 13 years ago

    @capndunzzi,Great puns!How many readers under 70 will get them?

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    Basqueian  almost 13 years ago

    im only 52, an I got it

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    Rakkav  almost 13 years ago

    And how is that different from what we Europeans and just about everybody else has been doing all along? Some genius YOU are, bird brain! :P

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    Rakkav  almost 13 years ago

    > have – ah HATES bein’ ungrammatical, but ah hates deletin’ even more

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    Sisyphos  almost 13 years ago

    And here I thought it was all just a matter of running out of space on your galumphing-big calendar-stone disk to start the next cycle! But it is an ingenious rationalization, Kukulcan.

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    They needed their calendar to tell when the next human sacrifice was due.

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    Ermine Notyours  almost 13 years ago

    So is the woman in panel 3 Fran?

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    bmonk  almost 13 years ago

    Is everyone—well, almost everyone—here also 52? Ha!

    I got it.

    I also got the fact that the Mayans simply end one really long cycle this December and start another. They worried that such “tween” times were ripe for disaster and collapse. But not the end of the world.

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    broncosdaddy  almost 13 years ago

    I am 46 and I remember Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I was exposed to all that kind of stuff by my older brother. I wanted to do everthing he did, the only difference is I can’t even draw stick people and I HATE science fiction, especially star trek. But I did love puppets like Kukla, Fran and Ollie. And we lived for Sesame street as children. And while sesame street was totally scripted, Kukla, Fran and Ollie was totally ad-libbed.

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    Tyrnn  almost 13 years ago

    Love the flying saucers in the background.

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    Jules934  almost 13 years ago

    Laugh, but remember… “IT” happened the year Cortez landed.

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    TheDOCTOR  almost 13 years ago

    I too love the Flying Saucers in background, which explains where the Myans went. Lovely planet, once they defeated the Daleks of course.

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    w9cwd  almost 13 years ago

    Re the woman in the 3rd panel, she could be Fran. Fran was usually in the foreground while the other Kuklapolitans were in the background.It didn’t occur to me what influence they must have had on Jim Hensen.Don’t know if Justin intended reference to “Another fine mess you have gotten us into”, but it is there.

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    TheSkulker  almost 13 years ago

    groan!

    Unfortunately, there are not many of us left who are old enough to recognize the reference or saw the original shows.

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