Red and Rover by Brian Basset for November 20, 2021

He should get one of those TV magnifiers.

If you sit too close … you’ll go … or you’ll get … or it will hurt your … it’s not good for your …

What he should do is go outside and play with that beautiful Rover. The rest of his life he is going to have an Apple, Dell and or a HP smack dab in front of that cute little kisser. Life is not a dress rehearsal!

Well Mom (or Dad, hard to tell) has the right idea! I used to sit that close as a child, but it turns out that I was terribly nearsighted ;)

I learned in “Liar, Liar” he’ll never goof up his eyesight by sitting that close, not in a million years.

They need a 75” TV to solve Red’s problem.

Mom’s advice from the ‘60s: Don’t sit to close to the tv and never watch it in the dark. You’ll go blind!

Mom was right about sitting back from those early color TVs, just not how she thought. Because of the technology, high house voltage could cause the picture tube’s anode voltage to exceed safe limits, thereby generating X-rays. Leaded glass picture tubes and/or shields and cabinets containing metal shielding helped protect viewers, but nothing protects better than the inverse square law.

TECHNOLOGY -YUK! Throw a stick to Rover and have him fetch it