Comments on: Christmas Synchronicity

By: PaulG

PaulG — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:29:57 +0000

Reminds me of my favorite scene from Donnie Brasco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyVJf_CqGRk

By: Soup Dragon

Soup Dragon — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:54:24 +0000

Mmmm, bacon!

http://bacolicio.us/http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2009/12/28/christmas-synchronicity/

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:05:04 +0000

I have often thought the punchline to Dilbert in reference to gift cards — If I get you a gift card for $50.00 and you get me a gift card for $50.00 what is the point. I think it says “I have to give you something, but I haven’t a clue what to get you, so I got you this” … Shouldn’t we know the people we want to buy presents for well enough to actually pick something out ?

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:10:21 +0000

My wife and I are sufficiently synchronized that we’ve gotten each other the same card at Christmas.

By: DPWally

DPWally — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:34:39 +0000

I love how 3 nearly identical setups have completely different endings.

By: Barrett Chase

Barrett Chase — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:21:45 +0000

The first strip also shows not only people simultaneously giving and getting what they both want, but also discovering a common interest they never knew they had, thereby deepening their friendship. It’s kind of sweet actually, even if the whole “bacon” joke is tremendously overwrought.

By: Heather D

Heather D — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:40:10 +0000

This is something our family has joked about (half-seriously, I swear) for years.

We should just calculate the value of what each person was going to give the others, figure out the differences, and just settle up at the end.

So if my dad was going to give me $50, and I was going to give him a $20 gift, then we just forego all that and he just gives me $30. Only we’d also take into account all the family… so if my dad would end up owing me $30, but I owed my brother $30, then my dad would just give the $30 to my brother. Unless my brother also ended up owing my dad $30, in which case we’d all work out even.

My brother is an accountant. He likes the idea…

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:19:29 +0000

I’ve never gotten someone the same thing they got me, though if I did get someone bacon I hope they would reciprocate.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:07:01 +0000

“Weak Sauce” - GIYF, I found it on Urban Dictionary.

Rainey: Strips 2 & 3 show that futility. Strip 1 shows something else.
“I’d never buy this for myself, because it’s too costly or self-indulgent,
but it’ll make a fine gift.” … “Oh, wow, I got this as a gift. Win-win.”
(Repeat same thoughts for second person.)

By: Rainey

Rainey — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:55:33 +0000

This concept really isn’t anything new. This happens very often with gift exchanges. Especially among people with similar tastes. These comics serve to demonstrate the futility of the tradition of swapping gifts. This is one reason I don’t do it.