While the world goes agog over today's SOLAR ECLIPSE of 2024, you might be wondering what tenuously-eclipse-related thoughts are rattling around in my one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-duplicated, accept-no-substitutes mind on The Big Day!
...Oh, you're NOT? Well, humor me and read on anyway...
It's simply this...
If Donald Duck had chosen TODAY to casually walk past that telescope, he would just have gone on his merry way, sans singed tailfeathers - and eyes unharmed, because he's looking away from the sun!
...And DONALD DUCK #71 (Dell Comics, Cover Date: May-June, 1960) would have had a different cover gag!
Non-Eclipse-Day gag and cover art by Carl Barks.
UPDATE: DAY AFTER:
Unlike Donald, Averi watches the eclipse from her backyard... though it looks like an ordinary afternoon to me!
Gotta love her fascination with it!
2 comments:
I envy Donald. At work today, someone had special eclipse goggles and let me and others look through them. What a gip. Much ado about nothing, in my opinion. It wasn't even dark outside. Was the eclipse any more spectacular in your neck of the woods, Joe?
I wouldn’t be too envious of Donald, Sergio. After all, he didn’t see any more then you did – and had to bear with a burned behind to boot.
If memory serves, you live in the same relative northeast region as I do and, despite New York City and its near-in suburbs offering many interesting and fascinating sights… today did not offer any that weren’t there yesterday! …And it only “got dark” when it ordinarily would. …Yawn!
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