Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 18, 2012

Kids, iPods,iPhones, TV’s, Computers, I use those, but not much.

Kids these days have no imagination with non-electronic contraptions.

Danae is probably right. Maybe that’s why I’m an old curmudgeon. I was never any good with that #^*&$@ thing !

This one had me laughing out loud – because it may be right!Really, did YOU ever try to make one of those things work? When you’re Danae’s size (as I was, a hundred years ago), it does not work. Ever. No matter what you see on TV.Come to think of it, remember how commercials used super close-ups to make things look HUGE and then when you bought them, they were an inch tall?Hmmm, Wiley, you may have figured out the whole generation!

I’m glad I left my coffee in the other room.

Yes bravo & thank you

Who’d have thunk it?

I wonder if we will get angry and bitter about everything too.

Failure is a cornerstone of being a kid.

Alexikakos = fun link, thanks. Hula hoops were fun, and pretty good exercise. Just because some people couldn’t get the hang of them is no reason to put them down.

Good ’toon today .. Again! Thanks.

kids today have so easy. but, then again, the older generation always say that they had to walk to school with 6 feet of snow on the ground, barefoot, and etc..

yes, that was wonderful. talk about a generation gap. lol

Back then, the 14-year-old girl across the street could spin three hula hoops at one time, plus do a yo-yo in each hand. Believe it or don’t. And that girl today is …

Maybe the batteries need to be replaced to make it work..

Now try this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=ztXmzMvSXZ0

How do you turn it on?

I literally laughed out loud when I read this cartoon today! I was one of many of my friends who was good at the hula hoop, but sure couldn’t do it today. I didn’t realize it took skill to do it because it just came so easily when I was a kid. But my mother=who was a master at everything it seemed to me= never could work it and that is what gave me such joy at the time!

well, you have to put the batteries in it.sheez!

are the hippy days gone? was it happy? is it all gone?…….

come on, say just a little something…..

All of our grandkids have those electronic noise boxes, but when they come to spend the weekend with us, they always go to the toy closet and get out the wooden train set and spread it out on the floor.

Everything comes pre-imagined nowadays.

Whatever you do, Danae…DON’T STEP OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE! Hurry up, Katie, say the mystical chant!-“Hula, hula, bobba-low-aKeep this girl from being Yoda…”-Or something like that.

Hula hooping seems to be alive and well in some areas of the country much to my recent surprise. One of my old girlfriends from high school is very much into, “hooping” for fun and fitness.

It would be fun to see their grandma (Flo) show them how to use it. Captain Eddy, hmm, maybe not so much.

… it’s good exercise! I could “do” the hula hoop, loved the super ball, a toy (I can’t remember the name of) that had a ring around one ankle that we twirled a thing around and jumped over with the other foot. It was fun. My favorite, though, was my pogo stick… I could do several hundreds (literally) of jumps on that thing.

Danae has no hips… and she isn’t very… hip.:ºJ

Love this comic. Oh, by the way, is there an app…..

Had a hula hoop as a kid and your right, it was fun. I got pretty good at it then grew up and stopped. My great granddaughtger has one and cant make it work. I can’t either ’cause the waist is gone.

“…They’ve grown old, but stopped growing UP.”

-They’ve started growing OUT???

Ha ha, I was just wondering how many of us adults spend any amount of time outside or exercising our imaginations . . . or if we’re in front of a tv or a computer in our free time. It’s easy to point the finger at someone else and forget that we’re probably not living up to our own standards.

Darn kids… thinking everything will be automated… probably yelling at a door for being “broken” if it doesn’t open for them… ;-)

Hula Hoops were huge because of the exotic place called Hawaii where lovely young women moved their hips and hands to tell a story. A lush wonderful friendly island s chain best known for Pearl Harbor until the HH and Jack Lord got a hold on it. Move those hips, Dano.

Danae, you’ve got to shake that thing.

it did take a while to get the hang of them, but eventually we got it down.

Don’t ask me.Ask Danae.

You know what I think about a woman who can do the Hula Hoop well?…What a waist…….

So right!!

Just wait,after Danae asks where the batteries go, “Gran’ma” will grab it and SHOW her how to work it like a teen ager.I crack up when I picture it:)

my nine year old is quite good with a hula hoop…they have them in gym class

A hula hoop is a toy hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs or neck.Usaully best done by them who are in fine shape!