B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 07, 2018

“I think we’ve long established I’m not the brightest one in this strip!”

“I shot an arrow into the air. It came to ground I know not where.”

I feel old now.

The first Darwin Award winner? JS

I read the instructions. You wanted me to follow them too!?

Has reading been invented yet? Might try pictorial instructions.

Has reading been invented yet? Might try pictorial instructions.

Isaac Newton’s earliest ancestor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFEewD4EVwU

Read? Probably not. English wasn’t invented then.

Read? Probably not. English wasn’t invented then.

Not now. Wait until I wake up.

Why does “Bullwinkle’s Corner” come to mind?

“Is it daytime? Is it night? Am I swimming in the ocean with the little fishes?”

Some people still have not learned that applies to a firearm also!

Well, the literacy rates were very low those days.

I remember one of the early video games (1970s) dealt with how to fire a cannon, and the computer would calculate the landing. Supposed to hit the target in three tries or less. So, once, I plugged in 93 degrees, and it displayed the trajectory, and then read out YOU IDIOT – YOU WIPED OUT THE MOTOR POOL!

He didn’t do so well with the boomerang either.

Reading without comprehension is a typical human failure, and it is still prevalent. No help for it except discovery in one painful event after another.

One of my favorite quotes: Life is an experiment conducted under uncontrolled conditions. It is one long chemical reaction that is as unpredictable as it is vibrant. Michael Connelly- (Chasing the Dime, 2002)