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Hum Bug

Hum Bug

by Adam on December 16, 2014 at 12:00 am
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  1. TB Tabby
    TB Tabby
    December 16, 2014, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Just mention it around Bill O’Reilly and that’ll change.

  2. Rhea
    Rhea
    December 16, 2014, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Maybe you need a visit from the Ghost of Bob Marley. Much more fun than Jacob.

  3. AckAckAck
    AckAckAck
    December 16, 2014, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    Poor Blockbuster and its painful and agonizing death.

  4. mosses von culmenach
    mosses von culmenach
    December 16, 2014, 5:48 am | # | Reply

    In german, „Humbug“ means “nonsense” or “swindle”, which I think of as synonyms for “christmas”, so … could be me in panel #1.

    • Dr. Zhivago
      Dr. Zhivago
      December 16, 2014, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      Me too!

    • Anonymoose
      Anonymoose
      December 16, 2014, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

      In Britain, a ‘Humbug’ is a type of peppermint candy.

  5. GeekGirlND
    GeekGirlND
    December 16, 2014, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    I *love* Scrooge Bug!

  6. John
    John
    December 16, 2014, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    Those are some sweet ‘burns on Scrooge Bug in panel 2!

    • Adam
      Adam
      December 16, 2014, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

      Whew! I was worried that you guys wouldn’t know what that was.

  7. Craig
    Craig
    December 16, 2014, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    But that VHS tape is… NOT REWOUND! Ooooooo!

  8. Enlong
    Enlong
    December 16, 2014, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing Bug kick various Christmasy evergreen decorations.

  9. Shannon Love
    Shannon Love
    December 16, 2014, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

    I think you have to have a high market cap before you get a visit from the ghost. Not sure how they calculate it for shared corporations. The SEC probably knows. There’s definitely gonna be lot of paperwork involved.

    Of course, a close readings of Dickens suggest that Scrooges major failure with Karmic Security and Exchange Commission was that he lived ultra frugally, spending almost nothing on the operations of his business, keeping himself and Bob Cratchet freezing in the office, and living out of one room in his house and eating turnip soup for supper. He would then roll all those savings back into capital investment building factories, ships, housings, roads and whatever else 1840s capitalist frittered their money away one.

    Dickens suggest that had he been more, say Trump-esq, blowing wads of capital on gold plating everything, stroking roaring fires, throwing big parities with everyone telling him how great he was and then shipping Tiny Tim off doctors who still thought in terms of “humors” and didn’t wash their hands, that he would have been morally superior to someone who practiced maniacal self-denial and built a lot of stuff.

    Hmmmm….

    Always wondered why all the good Marley and Scrooge must have done with their money lending over the decades, intended or not, didn’t get a length link or two of chain knocked off in the afterlife.

    Seems like the ghost of Christmas value style and intent over result.

    • YourWeirdUncle
      YourWeirdUncle
      December 16, 2014, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

      Umm… uhh… *head ‘splodes*

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      December 16, 2014, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

      So you’re saying that the ghosts won’t visit poor people? Man, being poor suck balls.

    • VeryPeeved
      VeryPeeved
      December 27, 2021, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

      it’s probably less to do with how much capital you have, and more to do with how much damage you’re doing by being a humbuging jerk. generally, the two are correlated, of course, as money often equals power, and you can do a lot more for good or ill the more power you have. actually, now that i think of it, it’s probably more to do with how much good you could be doing. or perhaps both, as in the relative distance between the current level of evil vs the projected level of good.

      man, being a christmas ghost is complicated business.

  10. happypasta
    happypasta
    December 16, 2014, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

    That’s cause you’re just picking up the slack of a certain other “villain”

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