Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for March 04, 2010

Wow - the apps worked! He suddenly remembered that he *IS* a creepy old man.

Smart phones aren’t just for young guys.

How old are these two supposed to be anyway? I’m assuming late 30’s?

Welcome to the middle-age years, Irving!

Actually lightenup, seeing that the strip started in 1976 and they were in their 20’s, then technically they’re in their 50s now.

Good thing Guisewite doesn’t age them accordingly. But then there wouldn’t be the trouble of mooching in-laws.

I resemble that EJ

Like I said yesterday commit the sucker. Oh, what is the warning about cell phones and cancer!

The big secret: Steve Jobs was born in 1955 (a year after me). All this exciting young guy tech is actually coming from us old guys.

Good thing he knows he’s a creepy old man. Maybe he reads these comments! We say it every day.

He just bought 3 apps at .99 cents each, and then deleted them. At least Cathy has a house full of stuff to show for her misspent money. Irving just throws Cathy’s money away with nothing tangible to show for it except the paper that the phone bill comes on.

I told you he was still having an unnatural relationship with that phone. Maybe they have a 12 step app to break his addiction. .99 cents and you’re cured.

I like the way they’re sticking out of little windows that turn back into a Kitchen.

Avon, See how she has her hand on his shoulder and he doesn’t even know she’s there? He never knows she’s there. He never offers her any affection or understanding. He’s completely self absorbed, like Elly Patterson, but without the screaming. This is part of what we’re all talking about that you don’t understand (your comment yesterday). We answered you yesterday too. Can they still be Yuppies in the 2000’s? Yuppies were the 80’s. I haven’t heard anyone called that since then.

Hiya. I did look at the comments yesterday subsequent to mine.

All I can say is there are different types of people. People who are disgusted with or angry about self-absorbed men will hope Cathy G. kills off Irving, or at least has Cathy dump him. People who are disgusted with or angry about narcissistic and flibbertygibbet women will hope Cathy’s preoccupations cause an ironic accidental death, or at least that Irving dumps Cathy.

There certainly are fantasies among both sexes about dumping a spouse followed by living in paradise with a boy-toy or hot tomato, and there certainly are folks who hope more desperately than average for that to happen. (Of course, the more serious someone is about that, the more the other sex in general will tend to despise them as part of the problem.)

Many folks, though, are not disgusted and angry with the way humanity (civilization?) is. I, for one, am happy with male-female relationships, the inevitable quirks of which are more tolerable if they’re regularly looked at and laughed at. (I consider Irving to be a caricature – exaggerated reality.)

Same thing with yuppies. Sure, Gen X and Gen Y may have (or develop) new analogues to “yuppies”, but the true 80s Boomer yuppies have not gone anywhere - they just grew older and quieter, and now populate formerly-trendy neighborhoods everywhere.

I don’t get the impression that Cathy G. is cartooning for the benefit of seriously angry or disgusted fans. She’s certainly benefiting me!

There’s a nap for that too.

Avon, why do you keep calling us angry and disgusted? We GET the strip, you keep saying YOU don’t. You don’t understand our comments either, as evidenced by your post today, so please just post your own thoughts on the strip from now on, and leave it at that, the way we do. Pretty much every single comment here, except for yours are hilarious. You can’t even see the humor in our comments, let alone the humor in the strip or the way the writer makes her points.

There’s way too much thought going into your judgements of all of us commenters, and the comic strip. It’s becoming insulting now, yet so far, we have all been nothing but friendly to you. Explaining what you keep asking. Despite our explaining to you, you still mischaracterize us and still really don’t have a grasp on the comic strip. We’re just here to laugh and have fun in a stressful world. Thank you.

P.S. All you have to do to look back at yesterday is hit the arrow at the top.

There ya go – just a little “friendly” discourse. Irving was a “creepy” young man, why wouldn’t he be a “creepy” old man?