- Eugene Tyson: Thank you for telling me all about your dreams, Sandra. There can only be one conclusion to all this!
- Sandra: Really?
- Eugene Tyson: Yes! I’m 100% certain that a dramatic event will turn your life upside down. And it will happen in exactly five days at 8:37!
- Sandra: Oh dear. Is that good or bad?
- Eugene Tyson: Bad, of course!
- Sandra: But if we don’t know what it is, couldn’t it also be something good?
- Sandra: Oh yeah, right…
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Oh wow this is good.
So… goodbye, Mr. Woo…
goes without saying, it’ll be catastrophic
So if his prognostication ability is that precise, how come he wasn’t able to predict what would happen if he posted that tweet? 🙂
…your favorite webcomic will be renamed as “Sandra and Cloud”
I’m not sure what he’s it means. Getting the coronavir is bad, but it’s not exactly dramatic. (I can’t believe I was the first to post a comment
@ Alice Macher:
It probably didn’t show up in his dreams :p
He’s an expert on dreams, not a fortune teller.
According to the calendar on the last panel, the events on today’s strip happen in November 2020.
my bet is on a certain woman showing up at the doorstep 😛
@ Alice Macher:
If the Germans use the same calendar the same way we, the French, do, then the calendar is about June: we start the week on Monday.
Why would the English and Americans start the week on the last day of the week-end, I could never understand…
Arg, sorry, I meant to reply to @Cromm…
Alexis wrote:
Actually, if you half close your eyes, look at a 42 degree angle on your screen and turn off the light you can read-guess the pixelated texts as Mon Tue Wed etc. So you’re right. And yes, the Germans do start their week on mondays as well. Little mistake in today’s comic, but wow you all are really good in spotting those!
Btw: great comic. I was laughing out loud. Maybe I shouldn’t, but comic relief helps the soul.
Ruby wrote:
My first thought as well…
Alexis wrote:
Good point! I didn’t know of that information. As for the week start on Sunday on some cultures, that’s due to the fact that, according to the Bible, the Sabbath (or Saturday) is the last day of the week. In Portuguese (my mother tongue) Monday is Segunda, which literally means Second. The rule applies to the other days of the week (i.e. Terça, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta meaning Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth).Alexis wrote:
Good point! I didn’t know of that information. As for the week start on Sunday on some cultures, that’s due to the fact that, according to the Bible, the Sabbath (or Saturday) is the last day of the week. In Portuguese (my mother tongue) Monday is Segunda, which literally means Second. The rule applies to the other days of the week (i.e. Terça, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta meaning Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth).
I have a feeling that there is some point on the last panel, which everyone understands and I don’t. Can somebody explain what Sandra realized when he pointed to the calendar?
@ Hegel Marx:
Because 2020 is a bad year, there’s no reason to expect anything good from it.
You’re ending the comic, aren’t you?
CURRENT.
YEAR.
@ Cromm:
I don’t think so. The calendar starts on Monday 1st. The only month this year starting on Monday is June, so it is happening this month… Seeoahtlahmakaskay bless us
@Ruby Oh yeah, I forgkot. Hey Novil, when are you going to continue the Richard-Hitomi story arc? @Nick/Tyrong Don’you dare even suggest such a thing! >=(
@ Plast:
Yep. Thanks to @Alexis, now I know that on some countries it starts on Monday. See my answer above.
Most of you aren’t even Aussie …
We had six weeks of raging bushfires in December/January, much of it through largely inaccessible country, so that we more or less had to wait for rain to put it out – and this after long periods of drought. But it filled the air with smoke for months, we couldn’t exercise outside for the smoke, the particulate levels blew the roof off the red range (sometimes by a factor of 10), and many offices and businesses had closures while they tried to make their air conditioning filter enough of the crud out. We’re no stranger to bush fires, but not like this. And most of our cities were affected – we’re a *big* country geographically. I was using ventolin several times a day, and I wasn’t one of the unlucky ones. My university closed their campus for some days. Twenty years I’ve been associated with that university, and only the second campus closure.
When the rain came, it poured. And then it hailed. Smashed thousands of cars in my home town, broke windows, trashed Greenhouses at my university – who closed their campus, reopened some buildings after days and others after weeks. My neighbour’s patio roof is still full of holes.
*Then* came COVID19. My university responded to the outbreak in China by adapting large numbers of courses for purely online participation – then closed the campus a week before the Australian Government caught on and closed damn near everything else.
Which has worked, for Australia, for my university … but not for the botanical experiments in the newly repaired greenhouses.
So – I know why *I* look at 2020 and snort. Three disasters so far. What’s hit the rest of you?\
To be fair, a dramatic event that turns her life upside down doesn’t HAVE to be bad, just… well, dramatic. Maybe she’ll get a book deal. Maybe she’ll win a trip space camp. Maybe Cloud will propose. Maybe Hitomi will show up. Maybe Huey Freeman will give a speech downtown and Sandra will be around for it.
Personally I am betting on Larisa nailing all the furniture in Sandra’s house to the ceiling. Feels like something she’d do.
I don’t think Woo is going to be killed; Sandras nightmares can’t be directly related to the bad event. Besides, Novil would never do such a thing. By the way Oliver Knörzer, you don’t think you could post a photo of your self, do you? I’m suprised no one has wondered what you really look like before.
Oh, And you to, Puri Andini. (Poweree)
Hm my bet is on Larisa kicking it…
Saturday 20th of June. 8:37 – in which time zone?
– who thinks that the comic images will be inverted?
@ dragonsister:
Africa got locusts … north western US and west Canada got murder hornets … hurricane season in the Atlantic has started early with 3 named storms already making US landfall … all in all pretty much everywhere is pooched in 2020
@ Hegel Marx:
It’s 2020. This year has been one disaster after another. Hell, the year started with Australia on fire.
“leap year fatal year”…here in Italy “anno bisesto anno funesto” …and you have to think about this: last leap year was 2016, the killer year… anyone knows how to avoid 2024?
No worry, what is really going to is happen is, your new mom is going to come all the way from Japan to visit. And Richard would man up, introduce her to you, then proceeds to propose to her. She would leap with joy and accept, and your life will be all the sweeter, since she is a japense cat girl maid mom, and she will show you how to truly make Cloud die of blood lost, to the point that he would never be able to see any other girl the same way again, in term secure his eternal servitude…. I mean love. Yes, eternal love.
Sometimes I draw a little hope from this exchange from one Dr. Who episode:
JAC: It’s an odd world nowadays, isn’t it?
CLARA: It’s always been an odd world.
JAC: Mmm. I mean, doesn’t it feel, sometimes, that things are coming to an end? Everything’s just going nuts.
CLARA: You’re middle-aged, that’s what it is. No offence. Everybody middle-aged always thinks the world’s about to come to an end. Hmm. Never does. It’s here. Oh, my God.
Alexis wrote:
Actually, in England, calendars tend to start the week on Monday. I have seen a small number start on Saturday and probably only seen one that starts on Sunday. Whilst there is debate on which day the first day of the week actually is, people probably prefer physical calendars that start on Monday more than everything else. I suspect that I know why that is:
Starting the week on a calendar on different days may give the following impressions (assuming most people have Monday to Friday jobs):
Monday — You’ve worked hard, you’ve earned the weekend.
Saturday — You’ve had your rest so get working!
Sunday — The weekend looks like it’s only one day long. Yes, we know that that’s an artefact of the look but it does make the weekend seem shorter.
Well… good news is possible. For example, Neil Gorsuch penned the majority opinion in a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling, stating that homosexuals and transgendered persons ARE protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which means employers can’t act against them for reason of their being queer.
NEIL FRIGGIN GORSUCH. Protecting the rainbow spectrum. And to make it even better, Trump took it lying down. No bitching, no whining on Twitter. He accepted it. (For now.)
@ Ruby:
Yeah, I immediately thought about Hitomi. Not sure this is a bad thing for Sandra, but it probably will be weird.
Can only think her dad suddenly gets married to you know who or Larissa’s illness worsens leaving her disabled or she dies from it.
@ Formedras:
The bestest part of it, (I’m being ironic, NRA life member here.) is them refusing every single 2nd amendment case.
BS reinterpretation of statute? Full speed ahead. Enforcing explicitly guaranteed constitutional right? Sorry, not on our to-do list.
Formedras wrote:
Donald Trump isn’t anti-gay. I don’t think he ever was. Why are you surprised that he didn’t complain about an issue he doesn’t care about?
It’s funny because it’s true.
Trump has an opinion on everything. It is exhausting.
Stop being a twit at night and sleep like the rest of us.
The ominous event being referred to here is an event in real life.
Possibilities include upcoming trump rally and Juneteenth among others.
The division of the calendar into 7-day cycles is biblical in origin. And naturally, Saturday, the Sabbath, is the last day of the week there. Moving the weekend one day forward was a Christian concept. Which is still based on the same idea, but tries to “mix it up a bit”. So if one is not trying to erase the roots of where weeks come from, it’s perfectly reasonable to use the original order rather than the remix.
Just showing calendar is enough to know it will be bad…
Simple… Has nothing to do with the year.
It’s when the next update occurs. This guy breaks the 4th wall so often, I’m surprised Woo isn’t raiding my pantry.
James wrote:
Be careful what you wish for…
I’d say FF7 remake came in 2020. But I wasn’t happy about it at all. In fact, I was very mad with its ending ant think it made the whole game pointless.
@ Ruby:
My thought too!
@ Nobody:
& @SlugFiller
Yes, I understand the Sabbath concept, but… well, we are indeed using a Christian organisation of the week, with the Sabbath being moved to Sunday anyway. Only for special jobs, even in the US, do people work on Sundays, a little bit more work on Saturdays, but most work from Monday to Friday (and, as far as I know, agrarian western societies had the Sunday as a holy day, where people were not to work). So why keep the “Jewish” calendar?
Tradition can only justify things so far, in my opinion. After all, for you, today is June 16, 2020 AD (or CE), isn’t it? Not 24 Sivan 5780 (AC? After the Creation? 😉 )?
So, I’m still left wondering why you keep with that tradition. 🙂
Yes, but is the dramatic world-altering event going to happen at 8:47 *AM* or at 8:47 *PM*? And is that with reference to Sandra’s local time or UTC or GMT? You need to be more precise with these details, man! 😉
RebelSqurl wrote:
Considering that this comic is done by German I would say AM, because they would use 20:37 for PM instead…
I mean I don’t disagree with previous strip or this one, but it makes me think of Masters and Slaves (http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/10/11/1122-masters-and-slaves/) from October.
Surely there’s some good news in the world that would be worth a strip focus on, I mean unless the intent is to inspire defeatism.