Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 21, 2014

“I wonder, where can she be?”

Why didn’t she call her cell phone?

@too-zonked Then, she would be calling 20 years into the future.

Unfortunately, by starting this on a Thursday, they’ll either have to skip a strip, or have it interrupted by an unrelated Sunday strip before the punchline.

Oh, I see. Maybe a tweet would’ve been better?

Ok, now you are just messing with us.

My nephew is 30 and has no clue what clockwise and counter-clockwise mean.

This is the strip from Nov 11 1976. You can set the date back to that day and follow it to see how it plays out just in case they jump to another story arc

@sueb: I don’t think my grandkids would like pulling a cell phone around the room on a rope.

No worries, Zonk. Many of us got that your original comment was intended to be humorous – which it was!

@packratjohnThinking about when they became ubiquitous in the US.

A campaign worker with a personal life? That IS strange.

I hear you. I gave one of those F-P toy phones to my year-old grandson, and he was baffled by it. But he loves his dadddy’s dead smartphone and is constantly putting it to his ear, or worse, bending over it while pretending to reads texts.

@too-zonkedMost readers recognized the humor in your comment.That is why I responded the way I did.

Even I, who normally take everything literally, recognized the humor. And thought it worked.It reminded me of a time back in 1975, when i worked with a woman who was dating a rich guy. How rich was he? He had a car phone!

@ThirdguyHe apologized about a comment that was removed either by the poster or the moderator. It was a comment that had racial overtones.I admire and respect too-zonked for recognizing his mistake.

@ujeanA 12 inch tv with rabbit ears.

Ah — back to the days when you were NOT always connected.

So – Lolita Ritchie is just no good – she’s getting in the way of our monopoly of pretty Hollywood Israeli spies – I mean, after all, we are a group of anti-nuclear protesters, and world peace is better left in the hands of the Jewish heirarchy, Hollywood gays, and Latin American Fascists – we can’t have a Ukrainian as First Lady! And certainly not Mena Suvari! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! There’s an anti Semite! Convict the Governor! Help! Scribe and Pharisee unite against TONY THE CHRISTIAN TIGER!

Huh. Pussies…

Thanks, Mr. Trudeau. Teddy’s worth a thousand words…