Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for November 19, 2009

Wink! Wink! Wink! –Of course not!

isn’t Wink in Big Top?

Besides a terrible twitch in his right eye, this computer salesman seems to have some problems with his personal morality when he sells his equipment knowing full well what it will be used for (and even lays out how to do it). How typical in today’s society.

Fox Trot would never have used such meaningless technical gibberish. Bill Amend’s technical stuff is usually real, if exaggerated for humor.

Doesn’t the salesperson remind anyone of Jim Kramer (the stocks guy)?

So close!

Craigor - funny you should say that because as I was reading the strip I thought he was a dead ringer for Vladimir Lenin.

Nothing to say

Technolgy can be a tool or a weapon. Some just tweet.

Apparently computer salespeople looked like losers even back in the ’80s.

If it’s a MANUAL digitizer, why would it need to be connected to a computer?

I agree, Craigor, it is Jim Kramer. Where’s his bank of buttons, though? Maybe this is where he got his start. Isn’t that bank of buttons a manual digitizer, of sorts?

with a wink wink here and a wink wink everywere a wink wink YA!!!!!!!!

FYI THIS PARTICULAR STRIP WAS DONE IN 1982!!!!!! THAT IS THE JARGON

RAY C

Doesn’t matter when it was done. It was meaningless in 1982 as well. Also, “…cross-channel it’s [sic] capacitor load” is not only meaningless, “its” is misspelled. I don’t want to be mean, just trying to show off how observant I am so everyone will admire me. How’s that working?

Ah, well; give Brooke a little slack for bafflegab, OK?

Perhaps the sales guy was winking in ASCII code to defeat any listening devices?