Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for June 13, 2022

Would a hug and kiss make you feel better, Marigold?

Hmmmm. Phoebe and Her Maxcorn:-D.

The final words of the sentence is, “Yorba Linda, California.”

Or, have Max hold the camera and make the documentary about her friendship with Phoebe.

Or cranking the engine, turning the heat up a notch, putting your foot on the gas, or biting the bullet.

Quick Marigold, tell them the story about Noah’s ark.

Do not distract her Max!

I think Max would make a better subject. Just remember Unicorns are not pointless.

Jealousy triangle! Even better!

‘Hanging up the phone’ is another archaic phrase, since you don’t physically hang up a phone any more unless it’s a rare landline.

I take a lot of pictures of my unicorn, but I only see a horse when I review them.

“It’s cool that you know stuff like that.” “It’s cool that stuff like that HAPPENS.”

Max is the perfect subject for a documentary! Sorry, Marigold…

Maybe we should update our terminology. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go play some digital games… Nope.

“…you admiring how beautiful Marigold is?”

Never mind the fact that the “save” icon for pretty much any program these days is a picture of a 3 1/2" diskette, which a great many people alive today have never seen in-person.

Don’t touch that dial!

Tape both video and audio.

When I serve someone of my generation coffee and ask “unleaded or high test?” they know right away what I am asking.

With the prospect of virtually all cars being electric in the next ten years, I wonder if the younger generations won’t know what any of that means. They may never have pulled up to a gas pump.

Hmmmm…… maybe I am just sounding like a broken record.

Or using the floppy disk as a save icon.

Instead of “filming” or “taping”, what is the correct word?

Film is still manufacture. I still have several 35mm SLR cameras. I prefer to use my digital SLRs though.

We also still call “movies” and “motion pictures” as such when they have evolved far beyond that.

NEWSFLASH! Today, June 13 the lavender unicorn balloon is entering Day FOUR, still happily floating on the ceiling! ALL the other balloons have deflated. The Unicorn lives!!

Also on the note of “filming,” the term “footage” comes from how film stock used to be measured – in terms of the physical length of the filmstrip!

Why not create footage about each of them—or both?

And the “save” icon on computers is still a floppy disc; a lot of kids probably don’t even know what that picture is supposed to be anymore!

If this wasn’t a family strip, Marigold probably would’ve said, “You will be VERY hurt if you finish that sentence.”