What’s wrong with listening to NPR the whole trip? At least you’ll be smarter at the end of the drive. Unlike most other “news” radio, where you will actually be dumber by the end.
My wife temporarily stopped worrying about my commute straight down an underpopulated interstate the night we went to a party at a workmate’s house up a canyon. Looking down at a neighbor landing their private plane enhanced the effect.
I loved when my Dad listened to NPR on car trips as a child…put me right to sleep and kept me asleep the whole trip. Kind of like the humming drone of a fan.
Probably everyone except the driver – and maybe him/her too, if they are dense enough – will be listening to or playing games on a hand held device. NPR almost never makes those trips.
“On Thanksgiving: ’Twas founded be th’ Puritans to give thanks f’r bein’ presarved fr’m th’ Indyans, an’ … we keep it to give thanks we are presarved fr’m the Puritans.” —Mr. Dooley (actually Finley Peter Dunne)
Me, I just don’t care to listen to radio for a long stretch. It doesn’t allow pauses as long as on TV. (Not that I’d watch TV for hours either, except for a movie.) If I want to fill the silence without talking to someone in the car, I’d rather hear music from a collection.
Pretty sad when smart radio or television gets a bad rap. Look at what’s happened to the Discovery , the History and the Learning Channels. For North America at least, the writing’s on the wall. These channels had to be “dumbed down” in order to increase ratings. Wonder if we see the same phenomenon elsewhere in the world.
In my earlier life as an informational graphics guy, I learned numbers are great for accuracy, but for real understanding, the brain craves context. Don’t say a battleship can fire a 240-millimeter shell, say it can fire a shell the diameter of a basketball, and put it through the same size hoop from a good deal farther out than the top of the key.
So don’t say the Pilgrims spent nine and a half weeks at sea. That’s just a number (albeit a significant number, if “Mickey Rourke” or “Kim Basinger” just popped into your head). Instead, imply that it’s been since the school year started, and you start to get an idea why the Mayflower’s crew nicknamed the Pilgrims “puke stockings.”
GreasyOldTam over 5 years ago
What’s wrong with listening to NPR the whole trip? At least you’ll be smarter at the end of the drive. Unlike most other “news” radio, where you will actually be dumber by the end.
danketaz Premium Member over 5 years ago
What, no Nautical Pilgrim Revue?
gcarlson over 5 years ago
My wife temporarily stopped worrying about my commute straight down an underpopulated interstate the night we went to a party at a workmate’s house up a canyon. Looking down at a neighbor landing their private plane enhanced the effect.
cabalonrye over 5 years ago
He couldn’t listen because of all the groaning and heaving going on, drowning out the radio.
greatcurmudgeon over 5 years ago
I loved when my Dad listened to NPR on car trips as a child…put me right to sleep and kept me asleep the whole trip. Kind of like the humming drone of a fan.
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Probably everyone except the driver – and maybe him/her too, if they are dense enough – will be listening to or playing games on a hand held device. NPR almost never makes those trips.
e.groves over 5 years ago
Too bad they didn’t have any Fifties Rock and Roll to listen to.
RussHeim over 5 years ago
The captain DID listen to NPR: Noisy Puritan Retching. (Seasickness is a horrible thing.)
Masterskrain Premium Member over 5 years ago
As long as “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” is on, NPR is FINE!!
Tim Pickard Premium Member over 5 years ago
Who would torture their children with NPR.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 5 years ago
“On Thanksgiving: ’Twas founded be th’ Puritans to give thanks f’r bein’ presarved fr’m th’ Indyans, an’ … we keep it to give thanks we are presarved fr’m the Puritans.” —Mr. Dooley (actually Finley Peter Dunne)
billswingle over 5 years ago
Excellent strip today!
Stephen Gilberg over 5 years ago
Me, I just don’t care to listen to radio for a long stretch. It doesn’t allow pauses as long as on TV. (Not that I’d watch TV for hours either, except for a movie.) If I want to fill the silence without talking to someone in the car, I’d rather hear music from a collection.
Scott S over 5 years ago
Not a sleigh ride? Over the river & through the woods?
cervelo over 5 years ago
Pretty sad when smart radio or television gets a bad rap. Look at what’s happened to the Discovery , the History and the Learning Channels. For North America at least, the writing’s on the wall. These channels had to be “dumbed down” in order to increase ratings. Wonder if we see the same phenomenon elsewhere in the world.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Frazz15 hrs ·
In my earlier life as an informational graphics guy, I learned numbers are great for accuracy, but for real understanding, the brain craves context. Don’t say a battleship can fire a 240-millimeter shell, say it can fire a shell the diameter of a basketball, and put it through the same size hoop from a good deal farther out than the top of the key.
So don’t say the Pilgrims spent nine and a half weeks at sea. That’s just a number (albeit a significant number, if “Mickey Rourke” or “Kim Basinger” just popped into your head). Instead, imply that it’s been since the school year started, and you start to get an idea why the Mayflower’s crew nicknamed the Pilgrims “puke stockings.”
EricS.Harris over 3 years ago
Well, if he was already seasick, there was no downside risk.