Bill drafted this comic back in 2019; it seemed appropriate to post it on the first day of Hanukkah.
P.S. On various occasions Robin has used different spellings (such as “Hanukah“), whereas Bill was always careful to spell it “Chanukah” (as seen in the tags). Unfortunately, Bill’s memorable “(C)Han(n)uk(k)a(h)” spelling bracket was destroyed by Comicgeddon, but there was a nice bonus panel on the subject in a Menorah post in 2018.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Must even Baby Blues inveigh against good-faith attempts to be inclusive?
Well, since Christmas is on December 25th, and they now start before Halloween, maybe the “easily offended” should stop complaining that we include other holidays.
A rather grumpy joke, and one that was played out during the Bush administration. The first Bush administration… Heck, maybe even before that.
You can please some of the people all of the time and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.
Half-price if you are easily offended; free for everyone else.
What does it mean to say that Bill drafted this comic?
@ Usual John – It means that Bill saved the image and placed it into a temporary “draft” post. There were about 50 such drafts still in the CIDU archive when I started looking through them, but a few were “empty” (no comic), and others were “duplicates” (of comics that were already posted). In this case there was no title, nor any accompanying text, but since Bill appeared to have thought it worth posting, I invented a title and scheduled it to appear.
My holiday problem tonight was St. Nicholas Day!
Our reenactment unit takes over the only house at our local restored village which is set in the 18the century for their Christmas “Candlelight Nights” event. This is something the unit has been doing for decades as several had separately gone to the event and were upset that there were people in 19th century clothing who knew little to none about the family who lived in the house or the 18th century items displayed in the house. So some time ago (well over a decade ago) we offered to take over the house for the event and we have been rather successful at doing so.
Of course the village was closed for a couple of years for Covid and the last 2 years they started the event and then ended it several days early. Tonight was our first night there for this season. I am in the “kitchen” talking about the house, the items in the house (such as the large fireplace, the cabinet bed and such). The family who owned the house originally were of Dutch background and there are many Dutch items in the house (including Dutch doors) which many of these more unusual items are.
While I studied up yesterday there were certain things it did not dawn on me to refresh my mind about. One of these things was the date of St. Nicholas Day as there is a table with items “received by the children” for same due to their Dutch ancestry. Among other things I was “tap dancing” about when St Nicholas Day actually is as my mind had gone blank as to the date – so I was saying things such as “earlier in December”. Looked it up on way home – December 6!! I will be prepared tomorrow night and the remaining nights of the event.
We must be doing something right as we get a number of people who say that they come to the event mostly or entirely to see our group in the house as don’t give a tour of a historic house, we are interpreting the living house as friends of the owners in 1775 visiting them for the matching night to the day we are there (tonight Dec 21, 1775).
If this should be the biggest of my holiday problems – I will be happy.