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Still Taxing After All These Years, Schedule 1

Yes, this is a repeat, with some new additions — like that US tax form, which has added new complexities this year. So we’re splitting it into two parts, just as 1040 Schedule 1 has become Schedule 1 and Schedule 1-A.

The short form deserves a geezer alert, as it was discontinued years ago. There’s a 1040-SR now for seniors — the only difference is that it’s printed in larger type.

Actual error message from IRS.gov on the day tax forms (and estimated payments) were due, April 17, 2018. Not funny. Note the difference in the set of dates cited for the outage.

Typos continue in 2026. Here’s a notice from January, 2026 that suggests a form was corrected in the future.

(This wasn’t from the IRS. This is a notice from a well-known brand of tax preparation software.)

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Dating

Kedamono sends this in, giving us some background on what’s happening in the strip: “Queen Victoria is rebooting after the incident of the Infinite Vickies. (Go read the comic for more elucidation.) This is the second strip after they started the reboot. What perplexes me is the “0/0/0” in the bottom left corner of panel 1. Since there isn’t a “year zero” in the Gregorian Calendar, let alone zero day or month, is it a different date? Or something else?”

Also, is this date in mm/dd/yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, or yyyy/mm/dd format?

That was February 6. On February 7, here was a strip referencing Scott Adams death. Then nothing until Feb 12.

That one is in CIDU territory for your editor:

No comics since, up to February 15. Your editor is only an occasional reader of this strip. (I lost interest with all the endless strips about elephants.)