Comments for Comics I Don't Understand

Comment on I don’t think that word means what Cylene’s father thinks it means by [Fran]cisco

[Fran]cisco — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:45:56 +0000

@Dan18 — Well, no, I don’t. But less-than-excellent “original meals” are so rare in my household (i.e., my wife of many years is a seriously good cook) that such a meal does not survive to become leftovers; it passes directly to the trash. Which happens about once every 5 years. By this point, of course, you might be picking up hints as to why I enjoy leftovers. ;> It may be unfair.

Comment on Give me a ring if you figure this one out by Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:52:11 +0000

Oh, I will. I swear, almost every time I read that comic, I think to myself that I’m going to see it here within a day or two. But every once in a while they do something really funny, and that keeps me reading through all the CWDUs (comics WE don’t understand).

Comment on Relativity by JFS

JFS — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:09:52 +0000

At work, I’m stuck in the middle: a lot of folks in their 50s and a bunch of recent and imminent retirements and a a lot of kids right out of college! When I talk with my team mates about “the older I get”, one especially gives me good natured grief about being not that old. And I’ve decided/declared that anyone around there who is more than 10 years younger is a “kid.”

Most of them really do act like kids when they start, too!

Comment on Return of the Carly by Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:47:02 +0000

My question is, who is going to watch a seven-minute political ad unless they’re already fully involved in politics (and therefore probably already have their mind made up)?

Comment on Relativity by George P

George P — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:46:07 +0000

I honestly can’t tell the difference between 15 and 25 any more. They all look too young to drive.

My big “I’m old now” moment came when I had to do some work at a Catholic school and was standing in the hall when classes changed. Suddenly I was surrounded by high school girls in Catholic school uniforms … and they all looked like children.

Comment on Relativity by Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:43:44 +0000

The kids in a 1981 yearbook actually *do* look older than the kids in a 2009 yearbook. It could be that sun exposure in early childhood is the cause. Most of us spent countless hours outdoors without any sun protection, unlike kids nowadays who get sunscreen slathered on them.

Unfortunately, the media have led many to believe that cancer is the only negative side effect of excessive sun exposure, which has created a backlash among those who think any warning is hysterical overreaction by pearl-clutching scaremongers. But premature skin ageing is by far the most likely side effect of too much unprotected sun exposure - it’s universal and unavoidable for anyone with light or medium skin tones.

I’m not convinced that tobacco smoke is that much of an influence, but let’s face it: most of us in our 40s grew up marinated in our parents’ cigarette smoke, and exposure to nicotine is the number one cause of skin ageing. But I doubt that it would have as early an effect as sun exposure, which is known to affect the skin relatively quickly.

Comment on Saturday Morning Ar-LOL-Ewww by David A. Rooney

David A. Rooney — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:14:35 +0000

Keera - I read all these posts on religion (I’m what is known as a recovering Catholic, btw) and I think of Joseph Smith and the Mormons. Looking at the historical record it seems that Joe Smith was a snake-oil salesman who capitalized on a wave of religiosity (and may even have come to believed his own hype). But this close examination is only possible because of the close proximity to us in time, the amount of documentation (some in his own writing) and the lack of a language barrier (american english words haven’t changed much in the intervening years). And don’t get me started on the absurdites of the Scientologists.

But all this begs the question for Christianity and other older religions - what would their origins look like if we had the same wealth of historical documentation and language clarity? Would they seem as absurd - not far from the ‘zombie’ idea?

Comment on Relativity by amo

amo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:50:13 +0000

My husband is 24 and he received AARP mail this year. I think they send it out randomly and hope they get the right person at some point.

Comment on Relativity by CaroZ

CaroZ — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:51:21 +0000

I thought it was just because I was aging that college and high-school students were looking younger and younger. But then I had the misfortune of opening my high school yearbook from the mid ’80s recently and I thought all the kids looked much older than current high-schoolers do! I think when people are between, say, 20 and 35, they don’t change so fast physically so our perception of age is largely determined by how they dress and act — and so given changing fashions and trends we peg people by generation more than by their current age.

Or maybe kids really are graduating from high school at 14 these days?

Comment on I Don’t Gita by Tullia

Tullia — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:49:22 +0000

Not that anyone’s ever going to read this, but –

From the “Gita, I’m talking to you,” I think the cat is having trouble getting the woman’s attention. And I know our cats love the old, big monitors because they can drape their paws, tails, and heads over the top third of the screen, which gets them attention every time. The thin screen? They wouldn’t be able to do that. The cat is partially angry because the woman can now ignore it more easily.