FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 27, 2011

No, but a computer monitor from back in the day could leave a mark, too.

Isn’t Andy the one that selected the iFruit?

The dog has no fear of the laptop, but he cowers before the upraised paper.

Andy did pick up the iFruit because it was cute.

You can whack someone upside the head pretty good with an iPad. Of course, that’s a pretty expensive whack.

The mom has a point. Besides, just because it’s up-to-the-latest-minute doesn’t mean it’s worth reading.

I’d rather spend my time doing better things (such as playing games or swimming) than reading some hack writer’s opinion about the present state of cow turd tossing (or whatever it is they’re calling politics this week), thank you very much.

I’d throw my wireless mouse at him. Should leave a black eye.

Or make a noose out of your headset cord .

My mother told me about this joke, it is originally from HER childhood. Back in the days when RADIO was brand new, some comic said something about radio replacing the newspaper and his straight man answered “But can you swat a fly with a rolled up radio?”

Newspapers survived radio and TV, if they get into the 21st century, they can survive the internet, too.

No, but he might be able to whack someone with the keyboard or mouse.

The content of newspapers can survive, but not necessarily in paper form, as has already been demonstrated in many cities around the world. And while you can read comics printed on paper, you can’t interact with other readers! I find reading the comics in my daily newspaper boring, since I’m always thinking what various commenters would have to say about them. The interaction is half the fun!

I find it’s sometimes better to not know what others may think of a strip. Some of it can get pretty inane.

Dew - I also read this when I was a kid in the 1960’s regarding how TV would never replace newspapers because you wouldn’t swat a fly or line a bird cage with a TV.

…Although, considering all the filth that gets pumped into living rooms via the TV, my reason for not lining the bird cage with one would be to protect the bird.

Touché, Andy …

And, that was good, Randywriter.

Destiny23…yeah that’s true and if you don’t want to read it on a monitor, then you can print the articles.

Hang on….

You don’t even have to roll it up. I read a Popular Science article claiming that you can shut down a major corporation’s web presence using $5 worth of cloud space.