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1. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “Drat, it is 4 pm and we’ve got nothing done.”“JW, we are unemployed. Getting nothing done is our job.”

2. over 1 year ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Oh Rat, if they leave it up to you, just give them the easiest thing to make.Yeah, I know, that’s not as funny, but …

3. over 2 years ago on Non Sequitur

   I think it is the other way round – having answered questions from their children, they’ve reach a level of enlightenment themselves.

   That or they became hermits to contemplate the significance of “Why 12 o clock?”

4. about 3 years ago on Frazz

   Ooops, yes, you are correct.

5. about 3 years ago on Frazz

   It all depends and it is complicated. Christmas is December 25 because it is 9 months before March 25 (The Annunciation) for Reasons. It was also when the Spring Equinox was in the 4th century when dates were established (The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Equinox).

   If you move the current Calendar so that Jan 1 in the first week after the equinox, of course all annual events will get messed with. If you create a new Calendar (Ala the French Revolutionary Calendar), Christmas will still be observed ~five days after solstice. Regardless of whether you are Old or New calendar.

   On the third hand ….

6. about 4 years ago on Frazz

   “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.But so was yesterday and you didn’t do anything about it then.” Alfred E. Neuman, circa 1970

7. over 4 years ago on The Middle Age

   Ah, the old “Painless Swordplay”

   Well, it doesn’t hurt the sword any.

8. almost 9 years ago on Prickly City

   “Ya Wanna List?”Maybe the failure to override the veto.Maybe it was the speaker’s passing of the Pelosi Cronybus II spending extravaganza.

9. over 10 years ago on That is Priceless

   Bad enough he just rolls over and goes to sleep. But then he has to snore …