2019-2025

I have to post today's comic first because Chip (or the syndicate) got my ass today! They edited the dates from 2019/2020 to 2024/2025. Although they should've changed the 2019 in yesterday's strip to 2024. You would think someone would've caught that.

A 2020 calendar would've wound up worthless anyway since the calendar ended on December 31st and today is March 1765, 2020.

January 31, 1966

Now, I'm not religious, but if I saw Noah's Ark complete with two of every animal approaching, I would probably start freaking out. I don't want to die in a flood!

What are those animals? Rabbits, mice, giraffes, and capybaras? Hippos?

Half Price Is Way Too Much for a 5-Year-Old Calendar

January 29, 1966

I feel constructing the prison would've already discovered oil. Clearly Harry damaged a pipe or something. Why the person who should be in that guard tower didn't see anything, I can't explain though.

Are they running away from the prison or running back to their cells?

Hmm. Printing reruns from 2019 doesn't really work when the strip comments on what year it is. Buying a 2019 calendar when 2025 is less than a week away makes me worry about Brutus' cognitive abilities. Did he suffer some brain damage when at the mall returning gifts?

No.

August 2, 1965

Hey, I think I saw this guy in a Looney Tunes cartoon. I don't think I've ever been to the dentist or heard someone go to the dentist and there not be at least little pain. Poking, scraping, and tapping your teeth hurts so get over it buddy-boy.

Ah, the extremes of the human body.

Nope, not today. Absolutely not.

February 29, 2008

Bringing back this awful shirt. Wilberforce doesn't know what a damn leap day is but has a basic understanding of the Chinese calendar?

Feb-BOO-ary

February is a terrible month. I know November gets the bad rap of being cold and dark with leaves falling to the ground as if they've given up on life but February is much worse. February is a month of extremes and it's terrible.

Fun fact that Gladys may like: February used to not exist. Romans considered winter to be monthless. I guess it just used to be winter. When January and February were created by Numa Pompilius, they were at the end of the year. They were moved to the beginning of the year about 300 years later.

Honestly, we've had the same calendar for 440 years. It's time for shake-up. Who do we contact about this?

It's 2020, Everyday Is a Monday Anyway

"I mean the days as in the date, not what day of the week it is...You know what, fine. I won't get you a calendar."

Oh, come on Brutus. Get yourself a calendar. Get one with dogs on it or Hello Kitty. They also brought back the Far Side calendar for 2021.

Working Hard Or...?

I saw an ad on Instagram for a goal and day planner that looked really cool and after I kept thinking about it for a couple days, I wanted to buy it. Problem was, I didn't pay attention to what its name was and I never saw the ad again. Anyway, that's the story of why I didn't get a planner this year. Feel free to contact me over purchasing the movie rights.

Trees = June

Yeah, Brutus, you big idiot. Just flip the calendar back to May and ignore any attempts at people correcting you and it can be May for as long as you want.

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1004: What Will the Internet Talk About for the Next 89 Years?

In our lifetime. It won't be sequentially ordered again in our lifetime. January 2, 2103 to be exact. I love how it seems as if Chip is tired of people making big deals about dates, too. I bet Chip has lost a lot of friends due to the dates 10/10/10, 11/11/11, and 12/12/12.

The 37th of Never

I wish Chip would do a strip where Veeblefester came over and had dinner with the Thornapples. I think it would be hilariously awkward.

I do wish that The Born Loser would have more week-long storylines instead of just "joke-a-day" format is currently uses. Joke-a-days are great for single panel comics but for a strip, it's nice to have some change-ups. I suspect the reason it's not like most strips is because it is three panels where most other strips that have storylines are four.

What Day Is It?

OW!! Is it me or does Brutus' shirt in today's strip make your eyes hurt? It's not even drawn the way it's supposed to be drawn. Every line is straight when it should crinkle around the collar and arms. I can't draw worth a damn but I sure as hell would make the lines uneven or something to make it look more realistic.

Another thing that bothers me is February 29th isn't exactly all that rare. It happens every four years like clockwork. It's like saying a presidential election is rare. You know what's rare? A regime change in Cuba, a total solar eclipse, Halley's Comet.

I also like how Chip emphasizes today is February 29th by putting the calendar in every panel even if it means it's on top of the speech bubble.