Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for September 16, 2023

True. Hopefully they are all good people..

indeed

No. Three different versions of the same one.

Are we merely defined by the sum total of our knowledge, opinions, and attitudes?

Unfortunately who you were will always go on your permanent record.

Auntie does kind of remind me of the Sphinx that posed a similar riddle to Oedipus:

“What has one voice but goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening? The Sphinx posed this riddle, and clever Oedipus guessed the answer. It’s a human being, who crawls as a baby, stands on two legs as an adult, and walks with a stick in old age.”

With my past it’s been more like six different people. I’ve taken a lot of paths

There is a sermon in there somewhere.

“The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”

And judging by my weight, they’re all here at once.

Unless you made some crass comment that was not politically correct in your youth and it was found out and you were cancelled. Apparently, that never goes away

Wow! Somebody gave Aunty a “good time” last night. Wink wink nudge nudge.

Maybe that’s why they created a statute of limitations?

That goes for the three of us: Me, Myself, and I.

And Aunty is fat enough to be all three.

True Aunty, you started out as Dipsy, you grew into constantly Tipsy, and now you are just Grumpy.

Me, myself, and I.

I’ve pretty much became what I’m gonna become.

The three faces of Aunty!

I like this version of Aunty, a philosophical Aunty.

Aunty shows her depth here, opting for the wisdom of the day, instead of the complaint (polite word that will get past the GoComics AI censor) of the day.

if you’re schizophrenic, yes. otherwise, you’re the same person, evolving throughout your life…

This is the kind of thing presented by the defense in a mass murder parole board hearing.