On technology and mustaches: sometimes they work, sometimes not so much 11/22/19

We couldn't let the month of November pass by without a nod to Movember. Huh? Movember is a portmanteau (thanks to Andy’s daughter Ali for the definition), a mash up of two words. And for Movember, guys are supposed to grow a mustache to raise awareness of men’s health issues. The first question we have is why Movember and not Muvember. Mustache starts with mu, last we checked. And why does November get to hog almost all the glory? Can’t we give the poor little mustache two stinkin’ letters? Nooo. It’s all about NOvember. But we digress. The mustache that Al grows to commemorate Movember makes him look like a , well, like a 70’s porn star. Full disclosure, Andy said, why not just say “porn star?” and John replied, “The mustache is specific to 70’s porn stars.” We looked it up and he was right. Why he knew so much about 70’s porn stars is a different subject, but let’s not conjecture.

The second strip, sad to say, is based on a real story that happened to Andy. Most of the time, something funny happens to one of us, or we observe something funny and then we change it to make it a better comic. This particular incident needed no change whatsoever. Andy had just bought the weirdly designed and unsurprisingly expensive Apple wireless earbuds, and when peeing in a restaurant bathroom, the bud fell out of his ear and into the toilet. After debating for at least a minute (am I reaching in there or not?) he rolled up his sleeve and when he bent over, you guessed it, the automatic flush kicked in. The lesson here is clear. If you are over 60 the latest technology is probably not for you. That goes for wireless earbuds and especially for automatically flushing toilets. From now on it’s bulky, old school, Bose Noise Cancelling, over the ear headphones dammit. And leave the ear buds to the millennials.

Have a great weekend and we’ll be back next week with one new one and one Happy Thanksgiving poster.

Andy and John