Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 07, 2010

no child left inside

Kids these days…

When I was young we only had PAL and we LIKED it!

PAL? PAL?! Why, when I was a kid, we had to live with NTSC. None of that fancy higher resolution for us!

Love the grunts!

Four channels plus a fuzzy PBS.

We had 2 English & 2 French stations when I was a kid. Talk about choices.

Of course we all read “Cul de Sac” looking at a TV screen.

Couldn’t get rid of that Commodore 64, WaitingMan?

Analog TV only, but we lived near LA, so we got 7 channels. No UHF, no cable (PAY TV? Horrors!) On the bright side, we got Beanie & Cecil when it was still a puppet show, Sheriff John, Engineer Bill, the OLD Mickey Mouse Club………

I love those sound effects in panel two.

Well this is depressingly realistic. Wait, Not one of them is playing video games?

When are children going to realize that TV, video games, and the internet are not your playmates, your real friends are?

Agreed, cleo…panel 2 cracked me up!

The whole strip cracked me up!! Sadly true, and yet SOOO FUNNY! Thanks Richard!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

EDIT: Not spam! It’s related to the strip. It may take a stretch of the attention span, it’s nearly 11 minutes long! (also relevant. I’m being cryptic intentionally so people watch this.)

In my day, we didn’t have these fancy remote controls. If we wanted to change the channel, we had to walk across the living room to turn the TV knob, in five feet of snow, uphill, BOTH ways.

Heck, we had to walk to my aunt’s home - we didn’t have tv.

We didn’t have a TV until after I was 10. My brother and I played a lot of records (78s) and listened to Sky King, and Sergent Preston of the Yukon, on the radio.

I regret spending so much time watching t.v. as a chold , I’m so glad my sister’s raising her daughter without a t.v. in their house .

I love how they’re all admiring their work in the last panel. Our family was one of the first to have TV, but it was in the early 50s (when I was already in HS).

I use my summer vacations just lying in bed reading, and talking on the phone for hours, and reading comics and emailing everyone I know and learning new stuff and playing badminton and, of course, watching TV.