And of course, here is part two of Brian’s holiday rap. I’m pretty proud of that Chianti rhyme I worked in there, which is a clear reference to the film The Silence of the Lambs.

WHOA. All these years I believed that the first full-blown, four-letter cuss word used in Orneryboy didn’t appear until strip #255 (don’t ask me why I remembered that particular number, I just did). Apparently I remembered wrong though, because there it is, sitting in the last panel — the F-bomb! LANGUAGE, Michael!