December 3rd, 2009
Sherman’s Act
To anyone who can come up with a better prediction of the future of brooms: I’m all ears! Just a big friggin’ wad of ears over here, dying to learn how my floor will get clean in the year 20XX.
Also: Anyone who feels like transcribing archived Mountain Time episodes should totally do so! Transcribed comics are searchable by text on the Archive page, and that could be pretty convenient. Pro tip: Any comic that has gives you the “TRANSCRIBE THIS COMIC” button underneath it still needs transcribed.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 am
Brooms of the future will look exactly the same, but they will be used for dining in expensive restaurants.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 am
a broom that collects all the dirt then reforms it into tiny offspring brooms, which then collect the tinier bits of dirt and do the same etc etc until NO DIRT REMAINS. it’s like a whole russian doll scenario. except that they’re not inside each other. and they don’t have a soundtrack by kate bush. ok I CHANGE MY MIND this thing should not exist.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:27 am
And the world becomes GREY GOO. Broom goo, actually.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
if it eats all dirt, there will be no crops. bad idea, verb. how about looking in your closet. thats about what the brooms of the future will look like.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
there will be no brooms in the future, for the mop shall take over. mops that dampen the floor, then dry it, and then disappear, eliminating storage problems.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 am
You’re just going to be pushing wet dirt back and forth across your floor if you don’t use a broom first.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:37 am
Hmm, a minor design flaw i admit. maybe all cleaning appliances will just morph into the vacuumoproomsquid…
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
You are all fools. Swiffers Sweepers will control the future.
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Well… brooms have been supplanted somewhat by vacuums, they just need to become better at hard floors..
no, the REAL lagging technology is .. batteries.. if they didn’t expire, we’d be using the same batteries from decades ago.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Isto, I would love to transcribe your comic! Alas, I am unable to remember the name of the tuna arm guy…
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Salmon-arms Johnny. Incidentally, he’s the salmon-armsiest.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Oh… SALMON… They just looked so much like tuna!
December 4th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Can the Antidust Act 1890 read “Are you thinking about cows?”? After all, he’s sentient.
December 5th, 2009 at 11:01 am
i bet he can, but he’d much rather read “How Does Your Cleaning Compare to…?”
December 6th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Anyway, the Dust Buster has already been made…
December 8th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I thought for sure that someone would create a broom that has the ability to fly - not for transportation, of course (how silly) BUT a broom that could fly!