Why did the calendar go to see a doctor on December thirty-first?
It had a bad case of terminal dates.
The punchline uses a clever medical pun on the word terminal, which can describe a fatal illness or the final point of a route or schedule. For a calendar ending its annual cycle, reaching the final page means its operational life has officially reached its conclusion.
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