The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for March 01, 2024

“…meanwhile in the AAA meeting…”

The AAA meeting is smaller

But they’ve got a Buzz on.

Ah, AA stands for battery size.

Hello Buzz.

That’s so yesterday everyone is going LiPo. Expensive as dickens but us first adopters always pay through the nose to lead the way.

Every now and then we wake our Furby up. Been with us for 25 years…

Boy, that SIMON game!!

“My wings got burned off in the lithium fire of 2015. And now they won’t let me on airplanes (or rockets)”

Those toys have quite the story to tell.

Hey let Simon speak. I want to hear what Simon Says

A Friends of Buzz gathering?

And now he’s always in the carry on luggage.

A battery of aaddicts?

He was running for re-election but only got 9 volts.

AA is the size, not the composition.

He hasn’t looked back because he has no neck.

Is that ‘Alkalines Anonymous’?

But there are AA lithium batteries. But I do think maybe lithium is different than lithium ion.

AAh, I get it.

Why would an AA battery not be lithium???

I’m holding out for batteries based on nuclear fusion — a clean energy source!

If you quit, how do you get your buzz?

And you had to use preparation-H for your overcharged burning sensation.

I get that an AA meeting is about not using a certain vice, but what has Buzz not “used” since he changed to lithium? It would still be a AA sized battery unless he had his battery chamber surgically altered to some other form factor.

Me too, but I still get cravings, sometimes even for the good old NiMH.

he was really charged up about this meeting…

The toys themselves haven’t been used in 15 years