See also James Thurber’s “13 Clocks” for a more evil take on this, Earl is lucky he answered with the right difference and didn’t get fed to the geese.
I have to wonder about this comic strip’s lead time. Was it already in the hopper before Brian Thompson’s murder? Within a day of that I had already heard jokes about his entry to Heaven being denied due to a “pre-existing condition.”
Beatles? I thought it was Buddy Holly (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)