Close to Home by John McPherson for February 16, 2024

Of course, they won’t have foreheads, either. And they’ll all be nearsighted. And maladjusted, unable to interact with humans except through social media. All selfies will be “lone-ies.”

the long arm of the law!

Not if they look like that, they won’t.

I already look like that. In both arms. They don’t call me orangutan for nothing.

Selfies are really nothing new. My Mom had a small roll film camera (818 film) back in 1936 that she used to take a selfie of her & Dad.

The guy from One Piece!

Selfies have been around since 1839 (Robert Cornelius credited with the first ‘selfie’). The younger generation just automatically think they “invented” it.

The only humans that can evolve will be those who spawned before falling off the cliff while taking their selfies.

Inspector Gadget don’t need no stinking evolution.

Dang! here it is Friday and John (and Bleeb) still haven’t shown up to install my new ceiling fan!

Oh well… here’s a new funny-sounding word. Remember… they’re free!

Snollygoster

Good thing there’s a wall too!

They’re really at arms length!

Shouldn’t they be standing on the wall? At least for a moment, until they fall? Quick with the fingers, they can show it to all.

They should be working in law enforcement. (Let’s see if anyone gets this?)

I’m very please to say that I’ve not taken a single selfie. I don’t have the need to put my face into every picture going. If you want a reminder of the view, take a picture of the view and not cover half of it with your face. It’s also not that flattering given that it doesn’t use a portrait focal length.

That’s funny!

“Evolve”?Doubtful.Had a knock on my frontdoor a few days ago. A young man with phone in hand asks me if Carol is here. Told him no. Looking at his phone he proceeds to tell me that his phone says she s b here. Then he asks if I just moved here recently. Looking to swiftly end this “pursuit” I asked him what he’s looking for. He tells me Carol’s Cuts (hair stylist). Told him she is down street exactly one block. So much for reading street signs and house numbers. Incidents like this tells me “we’re screwed”.

Ha! Thanks for the heads up, John.

And the trend towards taller cabinets in the kitchen

I remember seeing a comic like this only with large thumbs.

Or in my case, my decedents will get a long arm from having to stretch the arm out trying to read a piece of paper. Older I get, longer my arms need to be, especially if I misplace my readers.

I never have and never will take a selfie. Far to narcissistic. I KNOW I am not photogenic, so why push it?

There are people in abundance already with calluses on their knuckles from dragging them on the sidewalk.

From knuckle draggers whence came and to knuckle draggers thou shalt return.

A friend of mine saw a couple taking a selfie. He stopped and asked if they wanted him to take their picture. They happily agreed so he stood in between them, held his arm out, and took a selfie of the couple with him in it.

That’s devolution.

Great! – and we won´t need reading glasses!

And we’ll be born with the phone attached.

That assumes that having a long arm for selfies confers a competitive reproductive advantage. I’d guess it doesn’t. (Yes, I know this is a comic strip and not a scientific paper.)

That would be handy for short people like me for getting things off the top shelf.

How….fantastic

You forgot to shrink their heads as a result of the decrease in brain size from using so much anti social media