The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for December 19, 1999

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Huey: Where are you running off to, Mr. Dubois? Thomas: Shopping! Oh I hope I make it there before all the good stuff is gone! Huey: Shopping?! At this late date?! Thomas: Please, don't remind me. I'm panicked enough already! Huey: Well, just don't forget the bottled water and the generators - those are the most important things. Thomas: What the heck kind of Christmas gifts are those?! Huey: Christmas?! Who cares about Christmas?! I'm talking about Y2K shopping! Emergency supplies for the coming calamity! How can you worry about Christmas with global catastrophe so imminent? Thomas: You want catastrophe?! If I screw up my wife's gift this year like I did last year, I will die!! Do you understand?! I will not live to see Y2K!!! I gotta get to Bloomingdale's!! Huey: Take it easy, man! So basically what you're saying is that the approaching shut-down of the world's economic and power systems is... Thomas: Nothing compared to the wrath of an unsatisfied wife on Christmas. Yes. Huey: (sigh) I guess there are just some things I'm not meant to understand. Thomas: Look, I think we all get frustrated with the commercialization of Christmas, but - Huey: Nope, I was talkin' about marriage, but this whole Christmas thing is pretty messed up, too, I guess...