Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for May 29, 2020

how revolutionary of you, boy

What was old becomes new again.

Tony’s QOTD: Do you still have a land line?

Yes and I also have a phone on the wall (wired but not rotary) that works when the power is out and never needs to be recharged.

I’ve been thinking of giving it up but E-911 is not as accurate, I have a lot of contacts that would need to be notified, and one of us will get the message and tell the other if necessary.

One of these days….

No, lost it

Hey kid… why do you think you called it “dialing”?

Also, you don’t know just how easy it is to misdial a phone. And you probably just pick a number from your contacts or calls list and click and never even typed in a number (which you can visually check and backspace over).

But go with the “bolt to the wall” idea. Why not?

Yup and its for emergencies and computer companies needing a number to call you with (like I will answer, LOL!!!)

Yes… I’d say “of course”… but so many people I know have given them up.

No point in me doing that.

First, my bargain DSL service also gives me copper wire landline service.

For an extra TEN BUCKS a month…

I get unlimited local and domestic long distance calling, and international calls to a lot of countries.

Not worth even considering giving up, unless I ever find something affordable that’s better than my weak DSL…

which is not their fault, but my whole part of town.

I now have unlimited domestic long distance on my cell phone… but I didn’t for a long time.

And my sister lives in Canada… still not included in my cell plan.

Even aside from all that…

I don’t have to carry my landline phone with me every minute at home… I can have handsets in different rooms.

They’re MUCH easier to hold, and to hear when they ring, and to hear ON….

I love my smartphone… but it’s a tiny computer, more than a “telephone”.

For calls, if I’m at home… it’s the landline every time.

“Which one? – Oops…”

You can still misdial on a rotary. I did, once. I was a kid and the phone was a little high up on the wall. I was trying to call home from my friend’s and dialed 8631 instead of 8621.

I guess the last frame was for people who were never familiar with rotary phones; I thought it was funnier with just the first 3 frames.

nothing like good old copper wire and a rotary dial.

You want a rotary phone? There’s an app for that. Really, and it makes the clicking sound and really makes calls.

The cartoonist had to put in panel 4!

I still have a rotary phone hooked up in my basement for emergencies

I use smoke signals.

does it have a crank and a separate mouthpiece?

Got rid of it last year. Couldn’t drag it to the new address. Tree roots kept getting in the way.

A phone tethered to the wall, what a concept. Hey you know, they could put them in phone booth throughout the city for when you’re out and about.

Oh, and it will also provide a place for Superman to change his clothes.