Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 30, 2021

“Special” as somewhere snoopy children won’t find them? Or worse, visiting Mothers?

You mean this old Polaroid? https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2005/03/30

Or these? https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2018/12/26

On less you copied that floppy it will not work in your new computer.

The “special” archive. That which must be handled with heat resistant gloves.

Never the less there is o reason not to embrace the digital age, Janis. Unless you’re worried the phone might melt.

Nudge-nudge, wink, wink.

Not just floppies. I had my house broken into over a couple years ago. I had a lot of photos on the sx-50’s sdcard. Likewise, a laptop that was taken. Feels like a record of a chunk of years are missing.

“Floppy” disk…not some sort of euphemism eh?

Show me those Polaroids and it won’t be so floppy.

Faded glory, Janis? Hell no! Just look at Capt. Horn Dog looking at you!

I have black and white photos from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s taken with a Kodak in some instances all from my parents. There still holding up well!

There is a reason the police used to call “Poloroids” pornoroids.

So much old tech is gone with the Wind

I still have a floppy drive just in case

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety…”

my husband and i had “special pics” too.

Famous last words.

Comedian Don Friesen had a skit in which he advises everybody to NOT tape a birth. Imagine how that would affect The Talk a few years down the road. “Daddy, where did I come from?” Afterward, he asks, “But Daddy, how did I get in there?” “Oh, that’s on this other tape. Mommy and Daddy don’t normally believe in spanking but things got out of hand….”

The Polaroids are “hermetically sealed” in envelopes and kept in a mayonnaise jar buried under Funk & Wagnalls’ porch.

Oh those naughty scamps! Documenting their delights. What fun!

There aren’t any computers that can read a floppy disk…

Anyone remember tout a peekhe strip with Arlo and Janis planting flowers and Arlo is looking down her shirt and says There’s just something about a peek?

The XXX Files

Believe it or not, I never had any of those types of Poloroids.

So, is she saying they didn’t miss all of the “digital thing” in panel 4? (Smirk)