Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for August 01, 2012
Transcript:
....hello, my name is greg, welcome to wi-fi o-rama tech support....before I can help you, I need to verify your identity....yes. hello! greg! hello! yes! sure. please give me your phone number, address, maiden name..favorite pet's birthmarks... retina scan...dna...password including two numbers, one real and one imaginary. you're kidding. there is no kidding in tech support...no joking...no horseplay...no mirth, and absolutely no sense of humor, what. so. ever. what about pity? they screen for that on the application.
starfighter441 over 12 years ago
Hmmm…I think I had Greg on the line the other day.
DocNero over 12 years ago
I couldn’t stay at the call-centre job I was at, I didn’t want the surgery to remove my soul.
Randy B Premium Member over 12 years ago
This assumes that they already have your retina scan and DNA on file.
Plods with ...™ over 12 years ago
It’s only a mm on a map
Jkiss over 12 years ago
Greg will help you, but first you must promise him your first born.
Ermine Notyours over 12 years ago
Er, what’s that green shape on the wall in panel 3? Do I really want to know?
Potrzebie over 12 years ago
Can the numbers be rational and irrational numbers?
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
When I’ve called “tech support” for different companies, I’ve gotten Mumbai, Philippines, and Mexico City. The one time I got Memphis, I still couldn’t understand him, due to “accent”.
Jkiss over 12 years ago
I make up words all the time….not sure how you make up numbers.
danketaz Premium Member over 12 years ago
square root of -1
Casey Southards over 12 years ago
I tell you. It can be like that sometimes.
tcambeul over 12 years ago
Ah, he has direcTV’s tech support in Bombay!!!
mistercatworks over 12 years ago
“Infinity minus 1” is not an imaginary number, as someone else explained, nor an irrational number (like 3.3333333…). It falls into the class of transfinite numbers, which are only useful for discussing unbounded sets (example: all odd numbers).