Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for May 23, 2021

Geez!!! I’m REALLY glad I can’t use the screens of those things (bad eyes); who needs another addiction?

Sure not being killed in a Nazi bombing isn’t the most important thing?

Horace went all Picasso on us.

Not coffee, then?

We all know people who start to panic when the phone battery drops below 30% and go into meltdown when it goes into power saving mode.

A friend asked if I’d help him sync his new phone. Easy. I told him to throw it in a lake.

I own the phone.

An old guy gave me a great insight the other day. He was smoking a cigarette and leaning on his car which was next to mine. We got to talking, and I could see a planet on the horizon. We both got to wondering what planet it was. I have an app that will tell you if you point it in the direction of the planet. So I told him it was Mars. He said, “Yeah, I bought my wife one of those fancy phones. Now she spends all her time looking at it. Me, I own one of those old flip phones.” I said, “What I liked about those flip phones is they stayed charged for days.” He said, “Your fancy phone would too, if you quit looking at it all the time.”

Three strips in one. 1. The pollen is killing me. 2. There is an answer to hypotheticals, it’s the sound of one hand slapping you. 3. You know that your apparently aimless wandering through the house is really trying to recreate your steps.

I keep hearing people say that they haven’t had allergy attacks since early last year, because haven’t gone out without masks.

Even Horace is addicted….what did we do before cells?

Ha. I knews he was being phoney about it.

I am one of those rare people who doesn’t have a phone, if you want to call me you need to call my wife’s phone

I can’t see where I’m missing out

The perils of abstract thinking.

C-1 You’re joking with yourself if you believe there is no pollen inside

C-2 and what if there was no answer for any hypothetical question…?

C-3 easiest way to find your phone Horace is to call it…!

9 panel list…..tick, tack, whoa!!!!

In case of loss of phone lines, alternative communication specialists sometimes resort to :

A) paper mail rarely shaped like paper roses

B) present tense voice control

C) worshipful mister intervention and codes from James Hays the fallible

D) sidewalk chalk

E) err waves

PH) Loud ear rings

G) Walking loudly from Mt. Sinai and carrying 10 heavy tablets with instructions to substntially improve current conditions

Have an interesting Pentecost if so inclined.

There really is an answer for every hypothetical question. “Maybe.”

I had an interesting insight yesterday. Two young women were walking past our house. My wife and I were having an amusing bickering on the porch. One woman had her phone out (watching Instatik or tokagram or whatever) and the other was sans phone. Sans phone was just walking and taking in the day. I saw her watching the bird feeder by the porch. We had the usual array of sparrows and chickadees…we even had a welcome but rare visit from a gold finch.

Fast forward 10 or 20 years…(stand by for speculative fiction)

Sans Phone – It’s such a nice day today. Hey…remember that trip we took to the island and just walked around?

Phone – Yeah…that was great.

Sans Phone – I remember everything…the ocean, the ice cream…even that bickering old couple and the gold finch that was eating at the feeder. We should take the kids there someday. What do you remember?

Phone – (looks up from her phone) ahhh, yeah. Something about Masta Bombasta and how he uses gold toilet seats.

Now, I’m not saying one experience was better than the other. But, I think I’m safe in saying that one was richer than than the other.

But hey, what do I know? I may be just a romantic speculative old fool who just hypocritically wrote all that on a computer screen.

But then, I have a pretty nice memory of the whole thing.

Imagine a world without hypothetical statements.

Nice homage to Picasso, there.

Guernica Horace!

I love the “Guernica” reference in the last panel!