Around here, some would call it the year of the RIOT. Though the truth is, there was very little rioting and mostly just demonstrations.
I move we repeat it and this time GET IT CORRECT (I hate that I cannot use “right” to mean that, because the wrong-wing extremists have stolen the word. Damn them each and every one!)
I just looked it up. 2021 will be the year of the ox, but 2022 will be the year of the tiger. The water tiger, to be precise. So the real question is, HOW DID THEY KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING?!
Interesting coincidence: I have in my life eaten animals for all six of the Chinese zodiac signs that correspond to odd-numbered years (or animals related to them), and would not even consider eating any of the other six.
("Inside Story, The New Yorker12/7/20) From the memoirs of Henry Adams, great grandson of John: “The credit of the Government was tottering,” he warned. Adams feared that the Constitution . . .had licensed a “sectional power within the Government,” which had now “raised its hand to destroy the Government.” The corruption of the outgoing Buchanan Administration seemed to him grotesque: “The frauds discovered . . . had begun to assume a vague and astonishing size,” while “public confidence and courage were shattered.” Looking back on the period, in 1907, Adams filled out the picture: the secessionists were “unbalanced in mind,” “fit for medical treatment, like other victims of hallucinations,” “haunted by suspicion,” and prone to “violent morbid excitement.” SOUND FAMILIAR?
If we were able to eat out I would have known this much earlier…This is my year!. First thing my wife said when she found out her year was a snake, and mine a rat, “Snakes eat rats, you know.” I didn’t know whether to be excited or scared.
2032 is our next ‘year of the rat’, and so for you, Rat, and brother who was also born in a previous one, here’s hoping that will be better. (My brother’s best ‘year of the rat’ would have to have been 2008; that was the year he met the woman he is still married to.) Happy Saturday before Christmas my friends.
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
Stephan should introduce an Ox character.
BasilBruce over 3 years ago
Comparing this strip to recent ones, I have to conclude that Rat has more than one personality. I wonder if any of them are likable . . .
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago
No doubt this year has been spectacular . Not pretty but spectacular yes .
Ratkin Premium Member over 3 years ago
More like Year of the Bat if the virus originated as they think.
Concretionist over 3 years ago
Around here, some would call it the year of the RIOT. Though the truth is, there was very little rioting and mostly just demonstrations.
I move we repeat it and this time GET IT CORRECT (I hate that I cannot use “right” to mean that, because the wrong-wing extremists have stolen the word. Damn them each and every one!)
AndreasMartin over 3 years ago
I just looked it up. 2021 will be the year of the ox, but 2022 will be the year of the tiger. The water tiger, to be precise. So the real question is, HOW DID THEY KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING?!
Jesy Bertz Premium Member over 3 years ago
We could use a “Year of the Croc”.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’d rather have “Year of the Skunk,” myself.
hariseldon59 over 3 years ago
People forget that Chinese New Year doesn’t coincide with our New Year. So unfortunately the Year of the Rat doesn’t end until February 12.
Caldonia over 3 years ago
This gag looks familiar.
iggyman over 3 years ago
No Groundhog Day (AS in the movie) please!
Gent over 3 years ago
You mean the Chinese calendar year of the harbinger of the plague, eh, Rat?
mail2jbl over 3 years ago
For my wife and me, it HAS been spectacular. It’s the year we got married and conceived a baby girl.
dadoctah over 3 years ago
Interesting coincidence: I have in my life eaten animals for all six of the Chinese zodiac signs that correspond to odd-numbered years (or animals related to them), and would not even consider eating any of the other six.
Breadboard over 3 years ago
Life’s path is not always straight from point to point …. Croc Power !
rdav1248961 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Spectacular is not the word I would use for this year.
SALUDADOG over 3 years ago
The first shall be last and the last shall be first, but what shall the middleth be?
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
Conveniently, he’s a RAT, but it doesn’t mean it’s been a good year…maybe next year!
Steverino Premium Member over 3 years ago
I would have thought, that in the Year of the Rat, that cats would be revered as gods. Oh wait, they already are.
1953Baby over 3 years ago
("Inside Story, The New Yorker12/7/20) From the memoirs of Henry Adams, great grandson of John: “The credit of the Government was tottering,” he warned. Adams feared that the Constitution . . .had licensed a “sectional power within the Government,” which had now “raised its hand to destroy the Government.” The corruption of the outgoing Buchanan Administration seemed to him grotesque: “The frauds discovered . . . had begun to assume a vague and astonishing size,” while “public confidence and courage were shattered.” Looking back on the period, in 1907, Adams filled out the picture: the secessionists were “unbalanced in mind,” “fit for medical treatment, like other victims of hallucinations,” “haunted by suspicion,” and prone to “violent morbid excitement.” SOUND FAMILIAR?
Ellis97 over 3 years ago
When will it be the Year of the Pig?
A_Dilophosaurus over 3 years ago
Does this mean we can blame everything that happened this year on Rat?
Aladar30 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Astrology is stupid.
Jeff0811 over 3 years ago
If we were able to eat out I would have known this much earlier…This is my year!. First thing my wife said when she found out her year was a snake, and mine a rat, “Snakes eat rats, you know.” I didn’t know whether to be excited or scared.
Nyckname over 3 years ago
We’ve just been through four years of the rat.
GlenGoodwin over 3 years ago
Rattos in my refer!!dang
Agapostemon over 3 years ago
Year of the Plague Rat.
Bucinka over 3 years ago
Next up: Year of the Ox. Hopefully it will be a news year as slow as the ox.
richdell over 3 years ago
104th comment!
jonesbeltone over 3 years ago
I’m with Pig
zeexenon over 3 years ago
The Google Chinese to English translator says “The year of the D.T.s”
JPuzzleWhiz over 3 years ago
We don’t need to repeat this year. Booooooo Coronavirus!
NatureBatsLast over 3 years ago
Turning the page and adding a 1 to 2020 isn’t going to change the narrative were in.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 3 years ago
2032 is our next ‘year of the rat’, and so for you, Rat, and brother who was also born in a previous one, here’s hoping that will be better. (My brother’s best ‘year of the rat’ would have to have been 2008; that was the year he met the woman he is still married to.) Happy Saturday before Christmas my friends.
asrialfeeple over 3 years ago
It’s been a year of the Rats posterior!!!
PBS1! over 3 years ago
Rat must be drunk
Natarose over 3 years ago
I agree with the pig.
garibaldi99 Premium Member over 3 years ago
2020 has been so bad, even Donald J. Trump doesn’t want to repeat it.
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
All that beer he’s imbibed over the years has finally rotted Rat’s brain! Pig’s reaction was perfect!
2020 sucks, Big Time….
NoobSkate36 over 3 years ago
Curse you, covid
Avatar_Hoodie over 3 years ago
this explains a lot
we live we love we lie about 2 years ago
how about year of the pig?