I was really torn because I was going to have to agree with JAD (shudder!) on his first comment (it makes no difference that there was no year 0 because there wasn’t a year 1 through 500 either), but then he started in on that Bible babble, as if any of that were true. So what year did Jesus walk on water, feed the multitudes, or rise from the dead? It makes no difference because none of it ever happened.
But back to the cartoon: On the opposite side of simple zero-digits pleasures is what Garrison Keillor calls “Significant-Digit Birthday Syndrome”, the pain of turning 40, 50, 60, etc. (For myself, I’ve always disliked the Sevens.)
I was really torn because I was going to have to agree with JAD (shudder!) on his first comment (it makes no difference that there was no year 0 because there wasn’t a year 1 through 500 either), but then he started in on that Bible babble, as if any of that were true. So what year did Jesus walk on water, feed the multitudes, or rise from the dead? It makes no difference because none of it ever happened.
But back to the cartoon: On the opposite side of simple zero-digits pleasures is what Garrison Keillor calls “Significant-Digit Birthday Syndrome”, the pain of turning 40, 50, 60, etc. (For myself, I’ve always disliked the Sevens.)