Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 21, 2014
Transcript:
Arlo: We emphasize this day as the first day of winter, which it is. Arlo: But many cultures in history correctly perceived it as a time of rebirth and renewal! Arlo: Despite the cold ahead, they knew the heat and the light were returning! Arlo: Many of our own seasonal trappings have dim origins in solstice festivals! Janis: We agreed not to overdo it this year! Arlo: Ah, babe, it's the holidays!
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 9 years ago
Happy winter solstice
bama1fan92 over 9 years ago
As Bill the cat once said, “phbbtttt!”
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
Uglo down the street got his wife a three carrot present, and she didn’t turnip her nose.
elysummers over 9 years ago
I for one am glad when the winter solstice comes because the days start getting longer rather quickly.
mabrndt Premium Member over 9 years ago
Though it’s late, the holiday is still going on; so, Happy Hanukkah!
damifid0 over 9 years ago
Spring is not far behind. :) yeah! Peace.
Darryl Heine over 9 years ago
Eskimos/Innut in the last panel?
billdungjen Premium Member over 9 years ago
there may be something watching them through the window
JasherX over 9 years ago
From Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol…“Halfway out of the dark”
morningglory73 Premium Member over 9 years ago
It’s a relief that some folks do know the real meaning of this time of year. Wasn’t Jesus born in February?
kumaandi over 9 years ago
Shut up Arlo and throw another stick of wood on the fire. My feet are getting cold.
ARLOS DAD over 9 years ago
Where is Luddy the Sabre tooth cat??
shamino over 9 years ago
Hail to the sun god.He is a fun god.Ra Ra Ra
P51Strega over 9 years ago
Happy winter solstice!
1148559 over 9 years ago
I am sure it was spring… he was born at tax time after all, and tax time is still in April.
Doctor_McCoy over 9 years ago
The days are not getting longer. Every day has 24 hours, no matter where you are.
KEA over 9 years ago
Anyone know if Arlo & Janis bookends are actually available somewhere?
KEA over 9 years ago
My point. The Winter Solstice is NOT the first day of Winter, it’s Mid-Winter Day. (I haven’t been able to find out which snarklefot changed it or when)
GR6 over 9 years ago
Proto-Janis to proto-Arlo: “I’m Sweetie. Who’s Babe?”
Dani Rice over 9 years ago
Jesus was born in the spring, at lambing time. Nobody bunks down at night on a snow bank. All of the Gospels agree the shepherds were watching their sheep at night, which would have been to keep the wolves from killing the lambs. There is no contradiction there. And even the Roman Emperor wouldn’t have people ankling all over Palestine in the dead of winter.
As far as using the Winter Solstice as a Christian holiday, it was simply a matter of meeting people where they were. “You have a festival to celebrate the return on of sun? Let us tell you about the return of our Son.”
Doctor_McCoy over 9 years ago
OK, but every now and then there is a leap second added at midnight New Year’s Eve. Trust me, I’m not cute.
SundayBuzz over 9 years ago
A very old myth.
Actually, Christmas was set on December 25th (NOT the 21st) because in ancient times it was believed that great men died on the date upon which they were conceived. The early church worked out that the first Easter was on March 25th, did the math, and came up with December 25th as the birth date of the Christ Child. Hence, the Feast of the Annunciation (when the angel—traditionally Gabriel—told Mary she would conceive and bear the child of God) is celebrated on March 25th.
Pagan religions celebrated new moons, full moons, solstices, equinoxes, etc. so if you put ANY religious holiday on the calendar, it will fall on or near SOME Pagan celebration.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 9 years ago
The earth’s rotation rate slows by 17 millionths of a second per year, so in one seventeenth of a million years, a day (as measured relative to the sun) will be a second longer.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 9 years ago
“You don’t have to be a PETA whacko to realize that wearing fur is wrong”.But it helps.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 9 years ago
@SundayBuzz“In ancient times it was believed that great men died on the date upon which they were conceived. The early church worked out that the first Easter was on March 25th, did the math, and came up with December 25th as the birth date of the Christ Child.”.Which is to say, long afterward, they used a superstition and a questionable calculation to pick out a date based on a floating, changing calendar.They assumed they knew the year of his crucifixion.They assumed Easter and Passover coincided that year.They calculated a birthday five years after Herod died.Nobody wrote it down at the time.Nobody wrote it down within 40 years, maybe 100 years.Eyewitness are poor sources of information even at the time.They were poor mathematicians.
Every guess is just a guess at best.
RonBerg13 Premium Member about 8 years ago
That’s the second time Arlo has called Janis babe.