Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 22, 2015
March 21, 2015
March 23, 2015
Transcript:
Rat: Gather round, kids... I have a story to tell. This one's about phones. Kid 1: Cell phones? Rat: Oh, no... phones that looked like this. Kid 2: What is that? Rat: It's a telephone. One that had to be attached to walls... With cords. Kid 1: Cords?? How did you drive around with them? Rat: You didn't if you were driving around, you couldn't talk to anyone. Kid 2: What? Kid 1: Could you call them when you got back home? Rat: Yes. But if you called when they were on the phone. You got something called a 'busy signal.' Kid 3: Why didn't you just leave a voicemail? Rat: Because there wasn't any. Someone had to write down your message with pen and paper. Kid 1: Paper?? Aahahahahahaha. Goat: Never have I felt so old. Rat: Now let me tell you about... The time lady! Kid 1: The who?!
One thing Rat left out is that a landline phone can still function during a blackout, because the phone company sends a little electricity through the phone line just for that purpose. If a blackout lasts a few days, cordless phones and cell phones become useless as their batteries die.:Little kids with more attitude than intelligence exist to make me feel superior.