Mary Worth 944

YES, Kindle! After this week long commercial, I just got back from Target with my new Kindle... Now, excuse me, I'm going to go eat dinner in my room.

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Mary Worth 943

Heh heh. Jeff just called Mary Worth a Luddite. She is afraid of technology. Because Jeff spends a lot of time reading, he knows that the Luddites were a group of early 19th century workers who went around destroying machines they perceived to be taking away their jobs. They took their name from their folkloric hero, Ned Ludd,who apparently was an idiot who smashed a weaving machine because he preferred using his needles.

Mary Worth, like Ned Ludd, is too stupid to see the benefits of Jeff's new Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technologyand tomorrow she will smash Jeff's portable reading device to pieces over his highly educated head.

In other (slow death) news: The Central Illinois Post-Gazette has announced it will no longer print Mary Worth. In their classifieds section. Boy, talk about being tossed off the garbage scow. Not fit for the classifieds? You may want to post a comment on their blog and let them know that they have no sense of humor at the Post Gazette. I mean, how could a comic strip that just spent an entire week discussing differing opinions about the Kindle not be genius funny?

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Mary Worth 942

Like computers, gate departure announcements at airports, or the instrument panel of my car. When I see electric words, I just CLOSE MY EYES!

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Mary Worth 941

Uh, technically, isn't a BOOK a portable reading device? Mary, what do you have against BOOKS?

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Mary Worth 940

Wow. Jeff's new Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technologyis amazing! It even adds bookmarks without having to embroider a real one yourself. Still, Mary is skeptical. Come on, Mary. Get with the times. Buy a sleek new Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology!

And I agree with an Anonymous commenter yesterday that Jeff has been looking more and more like Charley Smith ever since he got his new Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology.

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Mary Worth 939

YES! Another "Perils of Technology" story! Electronic reading device? Mary does NOT approve. But soon Joe Giella will never have to draw another bookshelf loaded with cement gray volumes.

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Mary Worth 938

Erm... Scott, on your way to your local honeymoon destination is probably not the best time to bring up Ted Confey. Maybe before you proposed. Yeah, that would have been a better time to assess Adrian's feelings about her former fiance. But now, you just come across as insecure. It's very unattractive. I'm sure Ted was never so insecure.

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Mary Worth 937

Please... stop the car... I need you to let me out... I do not want to be here... I do not want to go on this honeymoon. I keep waiting for the story to change, but each day brings us closer to their local honeymoon destination. Let the couple have their privacy. Spare me.

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Mary Worth 936

For three days we've watched Scott pack that trunk with about as much hand-me-down luggage as it can hold, and where are they going? Northern Santa Royale? That sounds pretty remote. Be sure to pack your microwave so you can make popcorn.

Even if Heaven's Orchard Resort is as great as Jeff says it is, it is not so great that I actually want to go on this honeymoon with them.

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Mary Worth 935

Kids, let this be a lesson to you. Jill Black could have easily saved 700,000 French Pacific Francs if she hadn't gotten so drunk at last night's rehearsal dinner.

Now Adrian and Scott are headed off for a week in Bora Bora. As you'll remember, Scott wanted to have a local honeymoon, so no doubt, this is just one more attempt by Jill to sabotage their marriage. Now they just need to get their passports, drive to the airport, buy a ticket to Bora Bora, walk into the Four Seasons and hand them those really pretty vouchers that Jill made with her Crayola markers. Then, they can catch some water borne illness and spend the week throwing up over the railing of their hut.


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