Monty by Jim Meddick for November 17, 2023

Yeah. Doc can debunk this, but for the moment, he doesn’t know about it.

“Esperanto”! Lol. Wearing bubble helmets! Nice green grass, and houses precariously balanced on stilts!!?? What manner of future is this?!

Speaking in Esperanto in the future?

Is this due to the influence of William Shatner?

Is that showing the 2525?

Science fiction writer Harry Harrison was a big proponent of Esperanto and had it widely spoken in the future in his Stainless Steel Rat novels. Then there was an episode of the Danny Phantom cartoon, which described it as “An artificial language from the 1800’s. Now it’s only purpose is to give geeks a secret language to talk to other geeks in.”

You mean Pedmar.. the comics commenter, author, artist who was never understood in his own time?

He must be related to Monty …

What is up with the space mans shovel handle ?

Sorry, different Montahue.

The future: Where the art of putting elastic in socks has been lost to history.

Be excellent to everyone

I used to have aspirations to journalism and wrote a blog with my observations of modern life, imaging future historians reading it and saying:

“And now here’s the writing of Clotty Peristalt, that most famous and reliable chronicler of the late 20th and early 21st century. The period in history we now refer to as the Age of Morons.”

Is that Geroge Jetson’s space car in the background?

I expected them to have some resemblance of Monty.

If Monty is an engineer, why was there no mention of the time capsule itself? Hmmm…

’’I’ve used a ceramic vessel, purged the atmosphere with Nitrogen and sealed the lid with high strength epoxy. And just to be sure, wrapped the whole thing with duct-tape.’’

Technical note, a maxwell house coffee can does not make a good capsule.

You gotta love a guy with a modest opinion of his life’s impact.

Very clever! Esperanto is the world’s most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or “the international language”. WikipediaRealistic that the air won’t be breathable in the future.

“No, it must be his father, the cartoonish clod.”

Igpay Atinlay. :)

Sure Monty has a big fantasy.

“No, not Montgomery Montahue! It was Montague Montahue! Can’t trust that Wikipedia biography!”

And the helmeted aliens, if they really are aliens and not just evolved earthlings, will not be speaking Esperanto, of all the silly possibilities….