I’ve done a lot of “phone gags” over the years, especially in the early days of cell-phone introduction. I still do a lot of comic strips that involve a cell phone, but I do not consider them phone gags. A joke about a cell phone is a phone gag; a joke that incidentally includes a cell phone is not a phone gag. The cell phone has become so ubiquitous globally that is difficult to imagine never including one in a comic strip about modern life. The above strip, from this date in 2011, is not a phone gag.
8 responses to “Chilly Reception”
Good distinction, JJ! We’ve moved on so that modes of transportation and communication aren’t the topic of a story as much as the human element.
I’ve seen some changes in movies as well. The smart phone has changed a lot of the plot lines. I still enjoy watching old movies and asking my wife: “Why didn’t they just text each other?”
In 35 years of marriage, I’ve learned that a husband should set the bar for himself just a bit higher than, “better than a heat stroke.”
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56 years for us this weekend.
Yesterday I managed to do a face plant on my neighbor’s wooden fence. Won’t bore you with all the details, but I was standing on a dead [but strong] branch trying to break said branch by pulling up with my right arm. Tough branch, so I pulled harder. Suddenly, I became successful! The sudden lack of resistance on my right propelled me to my left, whereupon I emphatically found the fence after a few semi-pirouettes amongst the clods in what we call “our lawn”. I expected to get a shiner, but none appeared. Too bad – it would have been a good conversation starter at tonight’s church-related meeting.
At 56 years of marriage, the above constitutes a topic of conversation.
After my shoulders became useless, Elaine did a face plant on the icy driveway while clearing snow [a reason we soon moved to where a townhome assn. pays outfits to take care of the outdoors]. Result was not just a shiner but an overall bruised face. She had a parish nursing announcement to make at church Sunday, but started it with, “First: emb didn’t do it. Second, … .”
Her and Kathryn’s birthdays are tomorrow, 25 July. I hope this will be memorialized Friday on Friday Favorites, MPR, 3-7 CDT, most likely twd. the end [after 6-ish].
Peace,
emb
No Friday Favorites this week.
Steve said he entertaining ideas for longer pieces.
I kiddingly said a complete G&S Operetta?
cep- congratulations to you and your wife! 🙂
These ospreys have a house sparrow [or more] staying in the downstairs apt. Noticed one earlier this yr in the Chesapeake nest. Have also seen them other years in bald eagle nests. Nobody’s gonna mess w/ you when those bruisers are on the roof.
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/charlo-montana-osprey-nest
Peace,