Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 23, 2015

Agents are jugglers of unhappiness.

Oh, it’s Mark? Then, no.

Yes, that doesn’t look like St Louis.

I’m beginning to realize that along with the strip of Mike starting at the ad agency a couple of weeks ago, the main point of these strips is to bring the readers up to speed about the main characters after the sabbatical.

Wait, the Rams aren’t in L.A. anymore?

To continue having a happy, balanced life, of course.

Pretty early for a cordless phone, no? I don’t remember getting one until late ‘80s early 90’s.

Some people look for the cloud’s silver lining; others, for the silver lining’s cloud.

Mobile phones were first used in Germany in 1918 on military trains and in 1926 the service was extended to first class train passengers. Inventer W.W. McFarlane had a working car phone in 1920 and even invented the phrase “Can you hear me now?” There is some evidence that people were using experimental wireless mobile phones in the 1920s and 1930s. The first commercially available mobile phone in the U.S. was the DynaTAC in 1983. Japan had nationwide mobile service in 1979 and the Nordic countries had it in 1981.

Interesting history of mobile phones, guys. My extended family had to drag me, kicking and screaming, into the present century four or five years ago, when I agreed to have a Nokia. I still prefer landlines, though, because they’re more reliable.

I would guess Boobsie’s talking on a cordless phone, not a mobile. They were available in 1983.

Cell Phone tech has an Interesting History.For Instance, in Wikipedia we find:.Hedy Lamarr …During her first marriage, Lamarr developed a keen interest in applied science, and bored by her acting career, utilized this knowledge as an inventor. At the commencement of World War II, keen to aid the Allied war effort, she identified jamming of Allied radio communications by the Axis as a particular problem, and with composer George Antheil, developed spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat it. Though the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology, and this work led to her being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.…

If you have an agent, you’re never more than 90% happy.

I had a cordless phone 1981 and gave one to my mother. It had about 1200’ range.