MythTickle by Justin Thompson for January 12, 2011

Appchuck.

Love the “Freedom” flag! I’ll bet he’s a regular riot at airport security!

Coming soon: the colonoscopy app. You just stick the phone…

Hmm… actually, given the things some people do while using their phones, this might be a benefit to society…

A technological society can be called civilized only when it becomes poor manners to bring a live cell phone into a public restroom. We got a ways to go, don’t we?

There actually is a smartphone test for STDs, and it’s not much different from what you see in the comic. You use a little accessory that plugs into the phone, and I leave the rest to your imagination.

Boody looks way too happy about his new toy in the first two panels. I guess the novelty wore off by the fourth.

Mental note: never ever borrow a smart phone.

Uhhh…Boody’s a dragon, right? So if HE pukes onto his phone, won’t he turn it into a charcoal briquette?

Naw, he just upchucks hot ash.

I see this app as promoting anorexia.

“I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.”

— Bjarne Stronstrup (originator of C++ programming language)

[sigh]

Growing up in the ’60s meant that lots of things were not so dangerous. We didn’t have pads for roller skating, or helmets for biking. Heck, it was mid-decade before cars had to have seatbelts (although everyone knew that was dangerous).

Now even eating is dangerous…

:^(

And guess what, bmonk (hi, by the way)? We brought that one on ourselves. (Some would say, mostly Monsanto did.)