Unemployed dad: Twitter Family Values
Posted on March 13, 2009
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LOL.. that was hilarious. you didn’t retweet me.
seriously, whats with this twitter crap? i’ve been coerced to sign up like 8 times, and then i never go on it again.
this makes me think of those PC commercials with the camera and the cute asian girl. she’s waaaay smarter than me uploading those photos. thats for damn sure.
@Mike there was coffee on my Keyboard and in my nose, and now I am smelling coffee. Still having a stupid grin on my face, this is simply one of you best. LOL, i will RT this, I will Rt This, but remember no DM.
The twitter language I dont’ understand but the passing off any responsibility (ie diaper changes) I am all for.
Glad all is well again and you’re back with your usual “cool” outlooks!!
Really? You have crossed over to the dark side and embraced Twitterdom? I am really going to have to reconsider my man love for you.
Very nice. Good to see technology advancing in a way that supports families. My dad used to have to “telex” me and it was a really inefficient form of communication.
This is absolutely hilarious! No wonder my kids don’t listen to me, I keep forgetting the @.
@unemployeddad laughing out loud clown hat curly hair smiley face
bluntdelivery: you certainly have the wit and insight to be an excellent twitter’er, but maybe your need for instant gratification isn’t the same as most, or you have a lot of actual friends!
Chirag: Thank you for the retweet, sorry about the laughing through your nose coffee, I really prefer spit takes truth be told.
Bearman: You see the good in things and that is one of the qualities I admire in you! Also, you rag pretty hard on lot of stuff, still cool with that.
Luisa: Thank you so much! I am pretty cool.
tannerleah: With your wit and insight you are made for twitter. Twitters fall into 3 categories: random musers (you), counterpunch musers (people who react with hilarious comments to others posts – you again) and people who post links to stuff (not you, except for the Robert Plant video I gave you a hard time about).
You get more instant gratification with Twitter than with blogging, and it’s killing a lot of blogs! There you have it, for whatever that’s worth.
Ram: My dad was pretty excited to bring home some walkie talkies from Radio Shack, and so were we, for about 10 minutes.
@Roger: Ha ha! So happy to work with other parents on issues such as this.
iwasnormalonce: rolling on the floor laughing my ass off, wide open smiley face so you can see nose at top and tonsils but not eyes(like Jughead in Archie comics…think about it)
You always find a new way to make me laugh.
“Also, you rag pretty hard on lot of stuff, still cool with that.”
Only out of love…only out of love.
Amen to you. I am now running half my social life through Twitter – the other half I’ve lost because I spend too much time on the damn Mac. You win some, you lose some.
Freakin awesome. Tweet you later.
George: I consider it a privilege and an honor to get a laugh from you!
Bearman: Agreed!
womaninblack: yes it is a delicate balancing act in deciding what you want to have no life due to.
Oh Thank GOD I have refused to join up in the Twitter trend. Yesterday I saw a headline that said a juror Tweeted in court and fucked up the whole case. That my friend is technology’s contribution to the decline of humanity.
ummmmheyyyy: no way, you would be super good at twitter with your razor sharp wit and creativity. You would get more readers to your blog, which is awesome, and some really cool celebrities are on there. For someone with as much commercial aspiration as you have, you might want to rethink it, I would be your friend on Twitter!
…. i’m still laughing about this by the way.
LOL- Oh how true the Twitter world can be!
lil’ Phant: High praise indeed!
madmanhatter: you can always just use face to face as a backup, if all else fails.
Haha! This sounds eerily like real life for some people…perhaps myself at times. I’ll admit to tweeting somebody in the next room before.
I’m a bit surprised he didn’t just send and @ message about the diaper though…people tend to air all their dirt on Twitter. =)
Awesome!
I’m giggling over this as my husband and I sit next to each other Twittering on our separate computers.
I’m going to Tweet this post.
Seth Simonds: re: “airing dirt on twitter”, very, very nice!
susanimate: aaah, modern married life!
Very good.
Twitter seems ideally suited to communication within my family. It’s terse, to the point, refers you to somewhere else for questions/problems, banal and mostly ignored.
London: Where do you come up with this stuff? I might refocus my parenting to lean towards dysfunctional if my kids could produce insight like yours.
Probably not, though it might happen by accident or midlife crisis (fingers crossed!).
I don’t have twitter, I don’t get twitter, but still hilarious!
Deb: Thanks, my wife said sort of the same thing!
i also haven’t embraced twitter yet, but this is sweet!
LOL at all the @s and the “glurb.”
deejay: you were made for twitter! all the top bloggers are, I have a twitter friend from the Phillipines, it will increase your readers and bring your hilarity to a larger audience.
Let me know when you are on so I can follow you.
Oh, this rings so true to real life it makes me squirm. I totally LOVE IT!
Dawn: Thanks so much! Thanks for the visit too!
Still Twitterring !!!
Chirag: You know it!
SO great. It doesn’t get better than this, Michael. Brilliant moves like this and Nerd Cheesecake are why I pimp you out so shamelessly on Twitter.
I see that Twitter has claimed yet another blogger into its web of distraction…
OMG I laughed so hard! Thanks Michael!
TwelfthJen: You are the queen of social connectors, or maybe the princess, it’s really up to you!
Pamela: Thank you so much!
I prefer High Priestess. Sunday morning cartoon’s tried to get on board the Twitter train…but just could not match your excellence. Colten’s “glurb” is too genius.
Jen: Its true, just about everyone who cartoons sucks but me.
LOL Oh I will so pass it on!
LOL. That’s great. Although it’s sad that it’s so true! My (also “unemployedDad” husband and I tweet each other from one room to the other. Thank goodness our kids flew the nest before twitter came along!
R Tianna: Thanks! You must be new here, you’re very good at this already!
Linda Gracy: You sound really cool, and twittering from one room to another is completely acceptable, but if you start rapping the kids will disown you!
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Just great!
First off, this cartoon is hilarious.
I’m writing because I’m a freelance journalist looking for a parent who’s unemployed. My story’s about how losing a job affects a family and I’d very much like to talk with someone who’s dealing with it now. If you know of anyone please have them send me an email at mike.reicher@journalism.cuny.edu.
Thank you,
Mike Reicher
LOL! Love!
i keep on coming back to this one. I think this one is definitely in the top 5 comics of yours LOL
Mike: Thanks! Do I know anyone who knows first hand the effects of being a parent and losing a job? thinking…thinking…thinking….not really, most of my friends have jobs! If any readers know of a person who is a parent and has first hand knowledge of the effects of job loss on a family, please contact mike.reicher@journalism.cuny.edu
CGabriel: Thanks, well it took you long enough to get here…sheesh.
Maria: Hi Maria!
Pamela: I know! It’s totally annoying me too, makes my new cartoon ideas look like crap!
haha. i love this.
Diana: Thanks so much!
Well, I’ve finally done it, Michael. I’ve joined the Twitter revolution.
When do my checks arrive in the mail again?
All I can tell you is – you’re now on my blogroll (called Sites Blog Harbor Recommends). This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever seen.
Bravo! Love it!
Christopher
Christopher: You are the best! Thank you so much!
This Twitter cartoon is priceless, I absolutely love it! I have forwarded the link to all my friends. Great work Unemployed Dad!
The Unemployed Mom: Thanks unemployed mom!
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