Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 23, 2020

This doesn’t happen if you set your notification sound to something unusual. For Cliff, I recommend the sound of one hand clapping.

When it’s Godzilllafallen, the response is the opposite.

Ding! Dang for the ding-dong

Dong.

Don’t you love it when you’re in the car and a song comes on that sounds like a siren?

Or worse, like a motor blowing out?

My ring-tone is the theme tune to The Archers, which can cause confusion when I’m listening to a podcast in the car and my phone rings…

Cliff’s existence is in a twilit area.

or podcast

Crestfallen: How you feel when you drop the toothpaste

I’ve never gotten a text message.except for the ones people send to my email.

Ok, somebody already did the dong.

Dang, that dong sounded obscene…hope I don’t get dinged on it.

I’ve always enjoyed assigning unique Ring-Tones/Email Notifications/Windows Start-Ups and Shut-Downs. For a long time, my office phone was the same as the phones in the TV Show “24”, Dit Dit Dee Dooo. My Windows Start-Up was a Borg’s “Resistance is futile”, Shut-Down was the Terminator’s “I’ll be back”, and a ring-tone/email notification for a specific person I didn’t really want to talk to was a little cartoon voice going “Oh, nooooo”… ☺

An update of the “run to answer the phone when it’s actually on the TV” gag.

Text messages for Cliff are usually of the form You have received another restraining order from the Donut People.

Almost like the dog barking when the TV doorbell rings

No one sends a Text to Cliff unless they are Forced to.