Posted on 08/23/2006 3:03:32 PM PDT by pcottraux
And now the Dinklemeyer:
Time has not been too kind to this Dinklemeyer strip for some reason. As the years have gone by, it has become unrecognizably smudged. For this reason, coupled with my already bad handwriting, subtitles had to be provided this week.
I must ask for apologies to any vertically challenged people who may be out there reading this.
The whole “work puzzle” idea is sprung from the fact that often, on field trips, the tour guides will give you some stupid worksheet to do, or the teacher will make you take notes. Who wants to do book work on a field trip? We’re supposed to be having fun!
The real-life field trip on which this cartoon is based did in fact have an annoying work puzzle assigned to us by the tour guides. None of us actually did it. I remember a guy saying to me, “Come on…what are they going to do to us if we don’t do our puzzle?”
However, should you choose not to do the assigned work, there’s that feeling of having a little tiny annoying voice in your head saying YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING YOUR PUZZLE!” So I came up with the idea of tiny little people (being either more tolerant or more politically correct, I don’t address them as the “M” word anymore), being assigned to each student to follow them around and harass them into working on their puzzles.
As last week, the real students who went on this field trip found this story to be hysterical.
These people are pouring into the store, and many of them have this gigantic long list of things they need to get their kids for school...and guess what? I practically have to tell them where EVERYTHING ON THEIR LIST is, and take them their holding their hands. You wouldn't believe how many retards don't know what a "3-ring binder" is.
Plus, the school supplies area every day looks like it's had missiles launched at it. I spend hours straightening it, and the next day...POOF! It's chaos again.
Everyone in the office takes their blackberrys every-freakin-where.
Blackberrys make good pie, but that's about it.
(Sorry...my hick side is showing).
We have 400 people going to the event tomorrow. This is what it'll look like...
Ew...those things are weird-looking!
What do people use them for?
It's also a cell phone and operates like windows. You can run programs like word and excel and other stuff on it. Think of it as a really really small laptop. Note the complete keyboard.
Oh, wow...
Technolomonagistical!
Okay. Bedtime for Barbo. Got an early day tomorrow, but at least it's for something FUN!!!!!!!
Catch you tomorrow night probably.
Okay. When everyone asks where you are, I'll know what to say.
Night!
Go to the archives, you!
Last?
is there a prize for that? (oh, yeah, go stand in corner)
Great Job Phil. NOt sure how I missed the ping. It was a busy week however.. and no telling how many pings I missed.
thank you for the smiles you share
Yeah, that's a bit strange. I'm sure you'll get it next week, though.
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