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Richard's Poor Almanac - Thursday December 12, 2013 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

Richard's Poor Almanac - Thursday December 12, 2013 Comic Strip
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RICHARD'S POOR ALMANAC © Richard Thompson. Dist. By ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

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winter sun this month the "sun," a flaming ball of mostly hydrogen, makes occasional & increasingly brief transits of the daytime sky. it is most often glimpsed between morning & evening drive-times, depending on visibility. man: what was that? woman: where? zip many ancient cultures depicted the sun as a big flaming smiley face, re-garding it as the bringer of happiness & dispeller of gloom. thus seasonal changes & sunsets were frightening - what if the big happy ball did not come back? it would be the end of the world! this left people anxious, antsy & somewhat depressed, in a kind of fatalistic way. guy 1: look - it's the end of the world! guy 2: and me in this silly hat. nowadays people know better. woman 2: hey! the sun's out - oops, too late. man 2: oh, no.