
From Targuman.

From Targuman.
Happy Tu B’Shvat


From Stan.

Using a story or music to incentivize your running is a good, common strategy. But it doesn’t seem like a joke? From Rob Stephens.

From Rob Stephens.

This comic ended in 2012, and is in reruns. But apparently someone is working to update the comics, and keep the date “right.”
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I’m impressed that they’re keeping things in sync enough that a post-New Years comic is running a little after January 1st, and that someone is actually reading the comic and noticing that the year needs updating. On the other hand, I find it a little jarring to see the date changed on old comics to makes storylines “recent,” when I remember them occurring a decade ago. And on the gripping hand, I find it immensely jarring to see these characters discussing how “a lot happened in 2020,” and not including the most prominent and obvious thing that happened in 2020.
What do you think?
(And as a side note: Does listing all the things that happened during the year seem like a strange response to “Where did [the year] go?”)

From larK: “I mean, I understand the whole setup and expected punch-line, I just don’t understand the actual execution of the punch-line: ‘now I need oxygen’? As opposed to fresh air? Huh? How does that tie up the I went-out-to-cheer-myself-up-but-got-even-more-depressed-instead gag the strip is going for?”

From alGeo who, aside from submitting this as a CIDU, also claims “‘How’s she doing‘ is not the same as ‘How’s it going.'” Are they right? Obviously, the words are literally different, but for me (Winter Wallaby), those phrases have the same meaning.
So a twofer: Explain the comic and discuss English usage.

I don’t even know where to begin with this one.
