Editing 1073: Weekend

{{comic
| number    = 1073
| date      = June 25, 2012
| title     = Weekend
| image     = weekend.png
| titletext = Of the two Garfields, you wouldn't think the cat would turn out to be the more compelling presidential speechwriter, but there you go.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic was posted right after the '''weekend''', on a Monday, so it was on time to emphasize that ''we all hate Mondays''.

In the first image, there is a reference to the {{w|Loverboy}} song "{{w|Working for the Weekend}}"; both the song and the panel refer to how most working and middle-class people are constantly focused on merely surviving until Saturday with enough energy to relax properly. 

[[Cueball]] then goes on to state the fact that any calendar used is just a social consensus and since nature doesn't know the day of the week he simply suggest making this Monday into a Saturday. Actually, why not make all days into Saturday, to have eternal weekends?

When you actually stop and think about the speech, the argument turns into utter nonsense. Simply renaming every day on the {{w|Gregorian Calendar}} to "Saturday" doesn't actually do anything, and "the first Saturday of the week" would carry the ''exact'' same stigma as "Monday". Furthermore, if Cueball is proposing to abolish the work week entirely, the economy would collapse within days, hours, or possibly even minutes, depending on how quickly the news spread and how rapidly stocks started to sell. This fact may explain why the last panel is drawn in negative, with the background black. It gives a very ominous feeling to the last remark. 

No confirmation has yet been found that any of these words are references to something from former US President {{w|James Garfield}} or to {{w|Garfield}} the cartoon cat who are the two speech writers mentioned in the title text. However, Garfield the cartoon cat has often bemoaned the existence of Monday (ironically, because he is a cat and not subject to the common human work schedule). And hence the title text suggest that this speech was written by Garfield the cat, and that this would be a better speech than any delivered by James Garfield.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball stands at a podium before a very large crowd.]
:Cueball: We all hate Mondays. We're all working for the weekend. 
:Cueball: But our chains exist only in our minds.

:[Zoom in on Cueball from the podium upwards, seen from an angle. He raises one hand in explanation. His text goes above the frame and is written in the top part of this panel which is frame-less.]
:Cueball: Calendars are just social consensus. 
:Cueball: Nature doesn't know the day of the week.

:[Closer zoom on Cueball who looks straight out of the panel, the top of the podium just visible.]
:Cueball: My friends— 
:Cueball: We can make today Saturday.

:[Extreme close-up, podium now below the panel, and negative colors with Cueball and the text in white on a black background.]
:Cueball: We can make it Saturday ''forever''.

{{comic discussion}}

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