Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 13, 2022

The monthly newsletter for my condo recently reached 40 years. The masthead listed it as XXXX. Not exactly wrong, but more usually given as XL. I think I’ll include this cartoon with my note to the condo manager.

If my teacher had done that to me, I would be LIVID.

You need it on JEOPARDY sometimes. Not that I would ever be on the show.

Back in my time a lot of clocks used Roman Numerals.

Still haven’t had a chance to use the Capitals of all the states.

Do subtraction with Roman Numerals!!

You need to know it so that you can tell when a Three Stooges short was made.

30 second ads went for $7 million

I went through the same… it helps with crosswords sometimes :D

When I was young, writing up in binary or hex would have had more use.

Roman numerals,,,,

What are they good IV?

I guess people think the Roman Numerals look more impressive. Like the copyright dates on vintage movies.

A man is attending the Super Bowl, when he notices an empty seat.Thinking this to be strange, the man asks the person sitting next to the empty seat if he knows who sits there. The guy replies: Well, I bought two tickets for my wife and I a long time ago, but she passed away. So the man asks: Couldn’t you have brought someone else?

“They’re all at the funeral.”

The only thing I had to write 1000 times was “I will not talk in class.” Seriously !!!And during 4th grade Christmas break.I wasn’t talking…I mouthed out something.

I’m still a little torqued that the NFL chickened out a few years ago and not called it “Super Bowl L”.

I like the Abbot and Costello math version. What a Classic !!!!

Little 50; Children 100; Don’t 500; Mind 1000

It’s always useful to know Roman numerals.

I waited fifty years for Super Bowl L, and that one year they reverted to Arabic numerals.

This is one of the reasons Rome fell….

The NFL still chickened out with Super Bowl L.

I didn’t remember D was 500, and had to Google it. He’s writing “711, 712, 713” in panel 4.

That’s why education is important. You never know when you’ll need something you learned later in life. I’m not sure who decided SBs would use Roman Numerals but he must have been some nerd who loved Roman Numerals and figured he’d mess with all the jocks who would never understand the system.

as I repeatedly told students, one never knows when a bit of learning is going to be relevant, but it nearly always is eventually.

Maybe there’s a way to write 1,000 with one letter. What could it be? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I learned it because of movie dates. They’re always in Roman numerals in the credits. Why?

A few years ago on my birthday when people asked how old “I LI” was my answer.

I learned and still remember Roman numerals from school. We also learned to use an abacus. Since (Some? Most?) schools no longer teach cursive writing, I assume the Roman numerals and abacus went out the window too. I think they were good skills to learn, a different way to see things.

Thank God for India…….

I have to wonder how many people have bought watches with Roman numerals, and had no concept as to how to read them.

Or just ignore it and go do something that is normally crowded while everybody else is home watching . . .

Express the concept of Zero in Roman numerals.

Hubby gave me a necklace that reads “XIXXVIIMXMLXXIV”. November 28, 1974 – our wedding day.

I found knowing them useful for reading the copyright date for movies during the credits as they are always written in Roman numerals.

There is a city in Michigan that’s named “NOVI”. Found out that it was a train stop from the old days that was called “stop no.5”. NO VI. (:-D)

We also need to know Roman numerals in order to read in movie credits what year the movie was made. Usually that isn’t in view for very long so one must be quick.

The Velvet Underground “reunion” concerts resulted in the recording and video called “Velvet Underground Live MCMXCIII” . Yes, it was in 1993.

I like decyphering film production years listed in Roman..

When I was in the hospital, they gave me a 4.

A year ago I wrote a Roman Numeral converter in JavaScript for a code challenge. I couldn’t tell you how to convert Roman Numerals right now.