I used to love snow, and would happily run around in the winter without a coat, shocking onlookers who would invariably ask “aren’t you cold?” But of course, that was before my weight loss. Without the extra padding between me and the elements, I find myself hating said elements and desperately dashing with clenched teeth from one warm enclosure to another regardless of how Thinsulated my coat may be. I always thought I was a hearty northerner, but it turns out I was just a fat wuss.
The final line of this strip was what I yelled out the window on Saturday morning when I woke up to 60-degree weather and could see my grass again for the first time in a long while. I almost immediately felt guilty about this upon seeing the pathetic melting remnants of the fort I’d built with my son, but Mrs. Shoebox’s cackles assured me that I nonetheless had a punchline in need of a setup. So the mix of guilt and humor combined with the fact that we actually DID go bike riding on Sunday led me to this idea.
MRS. SHOEBOX’S ASSESSMENT OF TODAY’S STRIP: It’s goofy-tastic!
-=ShoEboX=-
If there’s a cold snap and you say something about global warming being maybe a little overblown, people smugly tell you that it’s average global temperatures that are going up, and you can’t take one isolated event as a counterexample. But you get one warm day and even the National Science Foundation is saying “OH MY GOD, IT’S FUCKING GLOBAL WARMING, WE’RE BURNING UP AAAH!!!! ! “
Of course global warming is real. There used to be a glacier where I’m sitting. Without all that ice, the world is going to warm. It just takes a real long time. The irony of it is that the warming will cause more polar ice and the wheels on the bus go round and round. Suck it, ice, you ate your own tail!
seems to me for every mild winter, two other usually hot places are getting severe winters..
Weather’s just random as hell
Two observations.
1) The solution to Global Warming is to MOVE INLAND. All we get in Dallas are more golf days.
2) Are the two cyclists starting to approach the speed of light? We’re definitely getting some red/blue shift there behind them.
Funny comic, funny comment.
Also sprach Baywolfe:
> We’re definitely getting some red/blue shift there behind them.
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(Dang, I’m getting old – nearly wrote “convergence” there.)