What’s so hilarious here is that it refers to how kids take things literally. He didn’t say “enjoyable”, he said “memorable”. This was one Christmas that she’ll never forget.
It was January 10, 2003. So it could not have been based on that strip, because that one was supposed to have happened over the Christmas vacation, not the summer vacation.
It clearly means that the last time they were at that pool, Hammie overheard Darryl say that to another man he got into a conversation with. He is repeating it without even understanding its meaning. There’s no way that Hammie, at his age, would come up with that observation himself.
I was just looking over some of my saved strips that appeared many years ago. It is now early 2025, and I notice that in more recent years Mike’s family and Bunny’s family seem to have disappeared from the strip.
I was just about to say that myself. Girls used to keep diaries. There was a rock ’n roll song about that. And also a famous Brady Bunch episode. So now they call them journals?
This one reminded me of the strip for December 31, 2009. But because that one was for New Year’s Eve, it actually made more sense that they all fell asleep in the living room.
At the time this appeared, I communicated this to the cartoonists (which was possible at that time), and they agreed that I was right. So I might as well put it here also. It was a 400% tip, not a 500% tip. The first two dollars was the price, not part of the tip. For instance, if you tipped 20 cents on that $2.00 purchase, it would be a 10% tip, not a 110% tip. She tipped $8.00 on a $2.00 purchase, so it was 400%. (Sixty years ago, I was the math freak at school.)
What’s so hilarious here is that it refers to how kids take things literally. He didn’t say “enjoyable”, he said “memorable”. This was one Christmas that she’ll never forget.