Thursday, April 03, 2025

Din-Din

When I first started this website, I used to just link to the strip I'm talking about. About two months later, I decided to post the strip in the post and that's what I've done for the last 17 years. Unfortunately, I used to just copy the image from GoComics into the post so you could click the picture and go to the strip. I figured it was a good compromise, but then GoComics updated and essentially broke all the links, deleting the strips.

Screenshot of the post from January 26, 2011 titled "De-Friended" showing a broken photo link.
I briefly used Photobucket but then the dark hand of copyright struck and removed my account. All told, many posts between 2008 and 2012 are unreadable because of no strips. Starting in 2013, I just started hosting the comics myself. I have gone back and updated some posts to either reinstate the links or replace the strips. But, with the new update to GoComics, the archive has been paywalled. So, now the links are all worthless unless you have a paid account and I can't go through and update posts with strip images that were removed unless I have a paid account. All this leads me to, if you would like me to have a paid GoComics account, you can throw me a few bucks if you want/can.

A group of businessmen are gathered around a table. A nervous man sits on one end. They are all in front of chart that shows the year 1966. The line is really high in January and February but plummets to the bottom in mid-March. A man who's standing, presumably the CEO, says "...Then in March of this year, Thornapple joined the firm..."
May 5, 1966
Oh, we missed Brutus' 59th anniversary with the company. I'm just assuming this is Veeblefester Tea Cozies, Inc. and Brutus is trapped in a Hell/Limbo of his own making by applying and/or accepting a job with this company. If they didn't fire him after that giant drop, then they never will.

Hmm. That chart looks like something I've seen recently.
An image of today's DOW market falling from around 41,200 at 9:30 AM to about 40,500 at 4:30 PM.
This all could've been stopped and everyone warned us.

Brutus and Gladys are carrying dishes into the kitchen. "Mother was certainly talkative at dinner wasn't she?" Gladys says. "Yeah," Brutus responds "I got to hand it to her. She really puts the 'din' in dinner."
Great. Now all the children in the morning during breakfast are cracking open their newspapers to read their favorite comic strips and now having to look up or infer what "din" means. That's a terrible way to start the day.