B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 21, 2009

Hey Walmart have their Christmas decorations out so I guess he’s right!

Good grief, and it’s not even Thanksgiving.

Hey! The tax and spend politicians have warehouse and inventory taxes so high that they have no choice. When merchandise arrives it has to go directly on the shelf…….

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….Eeeverywhere youuu goooo…!

Yukoner That never stopped the retailers before. I can’t say the weather down here gives me that feeling, but you must be feeling a nip in the air up where you are. I know that when I was living up in Edmonton for a coulpe of years, winter snow was already there to stay.

@Yukoner: Not even Thanksgiving? It’s not even HALLOWEEN!!

Thanksgiving in Canada was a week or so ago. The world doesnt spin round the US, you know.

yep, the x-mas decorations go up right after 4th of july!

I don’t really get this one. :-( (I may need to start a second pot of coffee…)

In this case, Coffee-Turtle, your sign-in name fits the your particular predicament.

Dypak Lighten up. There are posters from all over with different holidays. Most are from the US. I am a Canadian who resides in the US and I now celebrate the American version. Canada’s Thanksgiving is the U.S.’ Columbus Day.

Ummmmm… I really don’t get the third panel. Will someone please explain?

@ShaZamKaPow

Perhaps Peter let his mind wander again?

let the nitwittery begin!

Seems Thor (or Peter) saw the Christmas decorations and started screaming. I didn’t get that third panel either until the second comment (sharp inference there).

Someone else should lighten up too. Europeans and even Middle Easterners reached the West long before Columbus, but for better or worse his arrival began a sea change like nothing else in Western history. Likewise our Thanksgiving has more than one predecessor, including the biblical Feast of Tabernacles.

“‘Knowledge’ puffs up, but love builds up,” wrote Paul.

There are so many Halloween decorations and products in the CVS pharmacy nearest me that they couldn’t put up Xmas decorations if they wanted to. I don’t know how local retailers like the Galleria are dealing with the matter.

”The world doesnt spin round the US, you know.”

That’s what we let you think.

thor looks like peter’s twin right there

I think the reaction of Peter in the 3rd panel is the result of his being the “businessman” of the bunch. He’s the one always looking to turn a profit at the expense of others. Hence, the thought of people behaving in ways which are cooperative, non-competitive, and/or non-commercial is deeply disturbing to him.

The word “volunteer” hasn’t explicitly appeared in B.C. yet this week, but I’d imagine that it’s tied in with what’s going on elsewhere on the comics pages.

Actually, yesterday’s strip (and today’s, to a lesser extent) could very easily have been one of Johnny’s old Christian-themed strips without too much tweaking. I never minded this strip’s values-based content so much as the explicit insistence on Dogma, in the old days.

I tend to agree with fritz about the 3rd panel rather than Rakkav, as I don’t see any holiday decorations in any of the panels. And secondly, I second fritz’s emotions in his third paragraph about the first and second of two strips in the last two days regarding the first and second of the strip’s producers.

To explain Peter’s reaction in today’s strip, one need only revisit yesterday’s.

It dose seem that Thanksgiving gets lost between Halloween and Christmas. Christmas material seems to be out on shelves right after Labor day, case in point I was looking at Hallmark ornaments just the other day. Well Happy Thanksgiving (Can.), Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving (US), Marry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and a Happy New Year.

Is every body happy? \\//_

This strip of course has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Christmas, or Thanksgiving, or any other time of the year that has to be “set aside” for people to be good to one another.

Ghost of Christmas Present:- Mortal! We Spirits of Christmas do not live only one day of our year. We live the whole three-hundred and sixty-five. So is it true of the Child born in Bethlehem. He does not live in men’s hearts one day of the year, but in all days of the year. You have chosen not to seek Him in your heart. Therefore, you will come with me and seek Him in the hearts of men of good will.

Exec #1: Item six on the agenda: “The Meaning of Life” Now uh, Harry, you’ve had some thoughts on this. Exec #2: Yeah, I’ve had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we’ve come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren’t wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia. Exec #3: What was that about hats again?

Eeyore: A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.