So, this week in the funnies, Cathy Guisewhite has been trying to pretend her strip takes place in the 21st century (or any time past the mid-70s) by doing a plot about hubbie Irving losing his Blackberry:
Funny stuff, huh? That Irving...just another stupid man who can't do anything... what an original and funny idea for a strip. After all, it isn't like Dagwood, General Halftrack, the husband in Sally Forth and about sixty other comic strip husbands aren't also complete morons.
But this is the best part: the whole "joke" this week is about how, having lost his Blackberry, Irving can't do anything because...ha...ha...he never backed it up.
I guess that Cathy Guisewhite has never actually seen a Blackberry since, if she had, she'd probably know
that the whole point of the damn device is that it constantly syncs its data with your server and, therefore is being backed up about every fifteen minutes!!!On the other hand, maybe I should cut her some slack. After all, she's hardly the first over the hill cartoonist to think that jokes about technology that the cartoonist doesn't understand is a quick ticket to instant relevance in the modern society.
