Every year I celebrate Gene's birthday by agreeing to run a variety of strips that wouldn't normally make the cut. Namely, ones involving that beating heart of every library, the bathroom. This year it's three whole days on this gripping subject. I'm not sure how I got talked into that. Gene's actual birthday is tomorrow, December 15th. Based on humor level evident in these strips he will be nine years old.

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