Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 19, 2012
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February 20, 2012
Transcript:
Arlo: There is no such thing as "Presidents Day"! Janis: What do you mean? Arlo: Legally, the federal holiday is "Washington's birthday"! Arlo: "Presidents Day" was considered when the uniform Monday Holidays Act was drafted in 1968, but it was voted down! Arlo: However, business preferred "Presidents Day" for sales and promotion, so "Presidents Day" it is, regardless of the law! Arlo: Look it up! Janis: Why would I doubt it?
chireef almost 13 years ago
government tries to regulate, business just does what it wants regardless
James Hopkins almost 13 years ago
Or better yet, why should she care?
BRIPHILL almost 13 years ago
why no mail delivery from the goverment post office?
KasperV almost 13 years ago
Much better to have a permanent Head of State, like we do in the UK. Nobody cares who the Prime Minister is, and we can get another one any time.
celeconecca almost 13 years ago
well, I know I’m not dead yet – I learned something new today.
KEA almost 13 years ago
That’s so bad it’s not even wrong
sbwertz almost 13 years ago
In the original Monday Holiday Bill there were two holidays…Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday. They omitted Lincoln’s Birthday to create MLK day.
paulproteus48640 almost 13 years ago
Like I said in the comments on yesterdays strip lets have a Nat Turner day, someone who died for something they believed in.
marvee almost 13 years ago
We honor all presidents on President’s Day. Stores still have sales featuring Washington “cutting down” prices or featuring Honest Abe, the two we traditionally honored in February (althought Lincoln’s birthday was never a federal holiday).
marvee almost 13 years ago
Just checked Wikipedia and Arlo is right. That is, if Wikipedia is right.
Strod almost 13 years ago
@msowards is absolutely right. There was no Lincoln’s Birthday holiday in the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968. (In fact, Lincoln’s BD was never a federal holiday.) The bill that first proposed MLK Day as a holiday was introduced in Congress a decade later, in 1979. It wasn’t signed into law until 1983, by Reagan.
marvee almost 13 years ago
Lincoln’s birthday was observed only in some states (northern).I don’t understand why business would prefer President’s Day. They still feature Washington “chopping” prices or talk about Honest Abe.
marvee almost 13 years ago
Did you not read any of the comments above? Lincoln’s birthday was never a federal holiday. Do you not like 3-day weekends? That was the purpose of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. Federal employees get off for all federal holidays. Other employers can choose which and how many to observe.
Gokie5 almost 13 years ago
Down here in Florida we never got nothin’ off nohow. Of course the mail is affected on President’s Day, but I don’t think anything else much is affected.
lmchildress almost 13 years ago
Illinois state employees get Lincoln’s birthday off. The rest of the country does President’s Day, if it does anything.