T-Rex: Why do we celebrate New Year's Day on January 1st? Isn't choosing any point in the year entirely arbitrary?
T-Rex: Why would we, as rational adults, celebrate something arbitrary??
Dromiceiomimus: The same could be said of birthdays, T-Rex! Sure, they're the day you're born, but you're not really YOU yet. And even if you did appear as a fully-fledged adult, it's still arbitrary, as a C-section could've made it some other day!
T-Rex: A C-section?
Dromiceiomimus: Crack section. Where you crack a section of the egg to let the baby out sooner.
T-Rex: OF COURSE
T-Rex: So are all anniversaries arbitrary?
Utahraptor: Pretty much!
Utahraptor: Even romantic anniversaries are just the day you met or first dated or married or whatever. Your relationship now is obviously more evolved than it was then! All we're really celebrating is the FUTURE, using some event in the past whose chain of causality led us to today.
T-Rex: So when we say "happy new year" we're actually saying "here's hoping all the ultracrap we went through this year will somehow lead to a better, less terrible tomorrow?"
Off panel: Yep!
T-Rex: OH MAN
T-Rex: HAPPY NEW YEAR
