3 February 25 Tie 2

For my second tie today I felt very moo-ved to celebrate Cow Day (Vache, 15 Pluviôse) on the French Republican Calendar. (The French revolutionaries revised the calendar so that each day honored a crop, a farm tool or a farm animal.) My tie features the comic art of Gary Larson: a cow sitting at the side of a street with a homemade sign that says "BARN-LESS," near a bar named the Cowcatcher; a movie theater named The Udder Palace, showing a movie titled "101 Dead Matadors"; a pair of cows driving a vehicle tagged the "Moofia Staff Car"; and a pair of cigar(?)-smoking bovines wearing a shirt that says "SAME MANURE, DIFFERENT DAY.

14 August 23

Gary Larson, creator of the fabulous Far Side comics, was born on 14 August 1950. My tie shows cow images from many "Far Side" comics, with a cow sitting at the side of a street with a homemade sign that says "BARN-LESS," near a bar named the Cowcatcher; a movie theater named The Udder Palace, showing a movie titled "101 Dead Matadors"; a pair of cows driving a vehicle tagged the "Moofia Staff Car"; and a pair of cigar(?)-smoking bovines wearing a shirt that says "SAME MANURE, DIFFERENT DAY."

3 February 23

Happy Cow Day! On the French Republican Calendar, today (our 3 February) is named Vache, honoring the farm cow. My tie shows cow images from many "Far Side" comics, with a cow sitting at the side of a street with a homemade sign that says "BARN-LESS," near a bar named the Cowcatcher; a movie theater named The Udder Palace, showing a movie titled "101 Dead Matadors"; a pair of cows driving a vehicle tagged the "Moofia Staff Car"; and a pair of cigar(?)-smoking bovines wearing a shirt that says "SAME MANURE, DIFFERENT DAY."

3 February 22

Today correlates with Cow Day (Vache, 15 Pluviôse) on the French Republican Calendar, used in France from 1793-1805 (Years I-XIII of the Republic). I'm quite sure they took honoring farm cows rather seriously, but Gary Larson used cows in many funny ways in his "Far Side" comics. On my tie they are posing as "barn-less" beggars, driving a "Moofia Staffcar," entering the "Cowcatcher" bar (which is across the street from The Udderplace theater whose marquee says "Now Playing: 101 Dead Matadors"), and wearing a t-shirt that says "Same Manure, Different Day." In 1992, Larson published a collection named "Cows of our Planet." Happy Cow Day!

1 April 21

 Here's a "foolish" tie for 1 April, featuring cows from Gary Larson's "Far Side" comics. The tie's image is taken from the endpapers of "The Complete Far Side." The cows --one of Larson's favorite comic themes -- are posing as "barn-less" beggars, driving a "Moofia Staffcar," entering the "Cowcatcher" bar (which is across the street from The Udderplace theater whose marquee says "Now Playing: 101 Dead Matadors"), and wearing a t-shirt that says "Same Manure, Different Day."

16 January 20

Happy Birthday, Benjamin Robert Kleppinger! Ben chose my Far Side® cows tie for today, as a fellow-lover of absurdity. The cows are posed as "barn-less" beggars, driving a "Moofia Staffcar," entering the "Cowcatcher" bar (which is across the street from The Udderplace theater whose marquee says "Now Playing: 101 Dead Matadors"), and wearing a t-shirt that says "Same Manure, Different Day." And today is very special for me because I'm spending it with Ben's daughter Evelyn Marie, who is five months (23 weeks and one day) old! Ben is 12418 days (1774 weeks) old. Here's a link to a Web site to calculate the days between any two dates.

6 January 20

"The Far Side" first appeared on 1 January 1980. This treasure-worthy tie was presented to me by Philip Gump, a comrade in EKU Information Technology, and he is certainly one of our wisest guys. The tie's image is taken from the endpapers of Gary Larson's "The Complete Far Side." The cows --one of Larson's favorite comic themes -- are posing as "barn-less" beggars, driving a "Moofia Staffcar," entering the "Cowcatcher" bar (which is across the street from The Udderplace theater whose marquee says "Now Playing: 101 Dead Matadors"), and wearing a t-shirt that says "Same Manure, Different Day." The comic last appeared in 1995 but there's a new Web site that will display new work by Larson.


The very first Far Side comic: