Jay looks just like Jeremy, Roy looks like Jeremy’s dad, Kathy (?) looks like Sarah, Rita looks like Jeremy’s mom. I love these “guess which cartoonist’s style” strips.
I looked it up for anyone else that didn’t get it. H1N1 is the scientific designation of the virus that causes swine flu. So the joke is the “piggy” bank. Swine flu-“swine” bank.
Second guy from the right could try singing, instead of “La Donna e Mobile…”, “Tuvok, I understand, you are a Vulcan man! You’ve been far too long without, it’s been seven years about! Hormones are raging, synapses blazing, it’s all so very… illogical!” Then he could be the Doctor from “Voyager” instead of Rigoletto.
I’m afraid that’s what a lot of people in the small towns south of Tampa Bay were saying. I personally know a woman who just moved there from Tennessee with her husband and two children just a few months ago, and they just had their brand new house heavily damaged by Milton. They had evacuated to a shelter all the way down in Miami, where she started having panic attacks for the first time in her life. When they finally got back home, the house was still standing and habitable, but there’s still no power. They’ve been trying to keep their kids entertained with box games by candlelight.
That prediction wasn’t that far off. When I worked as a temp office clerk in data entry, filing, and copying during the 1990’s, all those jobs were already dying. True, the paper-based office wasn’t dead yet, but it was definitely getting there.
At least when we kept accounts and records on paper, an IT failure couldn’t completely shut down a business or a bank. Landline phones were much less vulnerable to communications failures. Sometimes I worry about the way we’ve abandoned keeping hard-copy backups and landline connections.
Jay looks just like Jeremy, Roy looks like Jeremy’s dad, Kathy (?) looks like Sarah, Rita looks like Jeremy’s mom. I love these “guess which cartoonist’s style” strips.