Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 24, 2013

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    pawpawbear  over 11 years ago

    Happy to see this back. My two granddaughters, eleven and thirteen, epitomize the “text generation.” I love them very much. But, I think they are going to have a hard time when they get to the real world. Having said that, I look around and see a much more casual workplace than when I was fresh out in the world. Perhaps, their ways will precede them and be waiting for them. I hope I live long enough to marvel and grouse at their work world.

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    jack fairbanks  over 11 years ago

    obese still my heart

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    wrwallaceii  over 11 years ago

    Oooh, wait a minute I gotta tweet that…

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    jreckard  over 11 years ago

    Thanks for the link. How true.

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    jnik23260  over 11 years ago

    Apparently Dad doesn’t. He can’t get his butt off the chair and put the paper down long enough to look for his own daughter.

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    Reppr Premium Member over 11 years ago

    This is not the first use of Twitterhead. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Twitter%20Head

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    Douglas Hakey  over 11 years ago

    That’s one excuse for being fat that I can’t use .Both my friends know I hate and do not use any kind of social media, and wouldn’t if you paid me.( anything less than7 figures.)

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    dsom8  over 11 years ago

    We who spend time commenting on the comics should be careful about how we criticize the twittering class. An old saw about glass houses and stones certainly comes to mind. ;)

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    dabugger  over 11 years ago

    Well, that certainly is no tweet…..da bird done flown….??

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    Absalom57  over 11 years ago

    Twitiots can walk fine. It’s the avoiding cars while walking and tweeting on busy downtown streets that’s the problem.

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    Linguist  over 11 years ago

    I think people who follow tweets have adopted an attitude of " We’re interested in what you do, as long as, we don’t have to do anything about it. !"

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    susan.e.a.c  over 11 years ago

    Hooray!

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    Ernest Lemmingway  over 11 years ago

    ROFLMAO!! Isn’t that the truth? Twitter-Heads are too afraid of leaving service range, much less able to walk fifty yards after spending so long at their computers their legs atrophy. But on a more serious note that’s far truer than this satire would have us believe. Not unlike cases of people dying of deprivation from playing MMOs nonstop for days on end. Oh well, Darwinism adapted (hah!) to the cyber age.

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Oh they can cover 50 yards. Even cross the freeway without getting hit. Even drive. Their worst nightmare………Having nothing to say or “tweet”.

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    Dtroutma  over 11 years ago

    It is interesting how often today “city folk” depending on their cell coverage get lost, or break down, out in the boondocks, and die, because they aren’t smart enough to realize they’re going out beyond the reach of “civilization” to come to their rescue. Not quite “Darwin Award” time, but often very close.

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    ChessPirate  over 11 years ago

    I knew a guy whose whole universe was computers and the Internet, but he was quite witty about it. He told us that not only did he not need utility heating in the winter due to all the running computers and devices in his apartment, but he actually had to open the window as well! When he was advised to go outside and enjoy the summer, he said he was allergic to sunlight. When he complained of constantly running out of disk space, I suggested deleting some stuff. He said “I am unfamiliar with this concept of ‘delete’.”

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    Wiley creator over 11 years ago

    This is very interesting. Over 30 comments so far, and not one in defense of Twitter. Obviously, Twitter is very popular, with tens of millions of users, yet all we’ve seen here is how hated it is. No, I am not on Twitter (or Facebook), nor do I intend to ever waste my precious time with it, but I’m a bit surprised no one has refuted any of the comments here today, many of which are quite vitriolic about Twitter and those who use it. Maybe they’re all too busy tweeting every 10 seconds.

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    Proginoskes  over 11 years ago

    50 yards … Isn’t that about 140 steps?

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    pcolli  over 11 years ago

    Didn’t our parents have similar things to say about us?

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Wiley, at least it did not go political.

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    ishannon5289  over 11 years ago

    These are the people for which I wish to coin the term twit-wit

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    dsom8  over 11 years ago

    You think so?

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    pbarnrob  over 11 years ago

    If, and I emphasize IF, Twitter survives (as noted, some of its users do not), it might be interesting to see how our communications overall are affected by its 140-character limit.

    I have been seeing some interesting haiku around here lately.

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