FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 28, 2008
October 27, 2008
October 29, 2008
Transcript:
Peter: What are you doing? Jason: Rigging up some robot zombies for the front yard. When the trick-or-treaters break the infra-red beam out by the mailbox, the tape deck kicks in, the eerie music starts, and one by one these motorized arms pop out of the lawn. Then the fun really begins. I sure hope I can throw these cow guts with accuracy. Peter: You know, the idea isn't to prevent kids from even making it to our front door... Jason: Did you see all the humongous candy bars Mom bought!?
margueritem almost 16 years ago
Jason, you just gotta meet Lio!
runar almost 16 years ago
Jason sez: “Why is Hallowe’en the same as Christmas?”
Ray_C almost 16 years ago
I smell lawsuit all over the place here.
TruckerRon almost 16 years ago
Jason sez: “Why is Hallowe’en the same as Christmas?”
If you’re a math nerd, you know that Hallowe’en = October 31 = 31 Octal = 25 and that Christmas = December 25 = 25 Decimal = 25
Of course I learned that from Isaac Asimov.
Ray_C almost 16 years ago
Carrying it a bit further, TruckerRon, since September is base 7, 31 would be decimal 22, which is (in some years) the Autumnal Equinox. November is base 9, so 31 is 28 decimal, which is sometimes Thanksgiving day. Sadly, those are the only numbered months, or we could really waste a whole lot of time and bandwidth on this (as opposed to all the pertinent, meaningful comments that are usually offered up on this site). ;-)
rikkibelle1 almost 16 years ago
ive already read this. theyre just repeating foxtrot. o wait theyre probably doing this bcuz its halloween. oh and this is like from the 90’s
Sternvogel almost 16 years ago
The only new “FoxTrot” strips are the Sunday ones. That’s why the weekday ones are called “Classics”.
runar almost 16 years ago
The concise answer is “Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC”.
And 6 x 9 = 42 if you use base 13.
pein almost 16 years ago
aw man jason is funny and Lio, jason and dean combined together maybe they would create an awesome Halloween costume
cello_wizard almost 16 years ago
jason’s doing what i wish i could. i love eating candy!
runar almost 16 years ago
The last times 10-28 was on a Tuesday were ‘03, ‘97 and ‘86