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Sid Wagner's avatar

For book form: print the text of the sign upside down, directly below the relevant panel, similar to puzzle answers.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

It’s a better option that including a free magnifying lens with each book.

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Fell Choice's avatar

The naked iPhone is basically a bar of wet soap from another dimension where soap has the miraculous ability to shatter.

My museum-quality iPhone 11 specimen stayed in its box until its phone case arrived.

Po fokes might do well to consider a refurb. Thinking about getting a 13 for my birthday in a couple of years. Me? I’m rich. ^^why. Well, that and Goodwill and hating tv and debt aversion. Don’t like the trap, don’t move in. It’s nice out here. Seriously.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

I chose the wrong case. It could protect nothing. I should’ve known it was useless for protection when it arrived in a box marked “fragile”.

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Fell Choice's avatar

😆

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Fell Choice's avatar

Lonely. But nice.

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Tim Echols's avatar

I read this on an IPhone 6SE. The case is broken but the screen is still okay.

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Tell Me a Mystery's avatar

Love those signs! They are a whole funny story within a funny story.

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Darcy Fiona McNair's avatar

"I've been waiting forever"--congratulating someone on achieving immortality is the best come-back ever, and I'm gonna use it. Thanks!

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The Devil Kitty's avatar

I replaced my Android last year (and immediately slapped it in a protector, given my track record), and it's managed to survive without a crack so far. Hopefully, this will continue, because given the economy, upgrading is not happening for at least 5 more years. (My last phone made it through 7 years with a protector holding together the crack on the back, I expect greatness!)

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Yuma's Freezing's avatar

Only obnoxious customers and Shelbys are immortal. They just won't go away. Every job has at least one Shelby. The only way to survive *and* enjoy it is to be the Shelby!

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Fell Choice's avatar

Shelby is the most miserable person in the store, despite sharing her misery so freely.

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Hobbes's avatar

I was a non traditional college student, i.e., old. When one of my younger and more with it classmates asked why I was never on my smartphone, I replied that I didn't own a smartphone. It is bad enough I have a landline. When she asked if I would ever get a phone, I said when Hell freezes over, my ire directed toward the idea of chaining myself to a phone, and not at the classmate who asked the question. She was a nice person, as college students go. Anyway, winter is coming and I live in a horrible place. Still no plans to get a smartphone.

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Willy from Philly ButNotReally's avatar

So funny and so true, as always.

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Anecdotage's avatar

You are entitled.

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MartyB's avatar

I’m a late adopter, even though I might make a bit more than a cartoonist. My iPhone 11 Pro Max, bought well used but pristine from Gazelle.com not quite 2 years ago is still in very good condition even though gravity grabs it a few times a week. A good cheap case helped a lot. Just a thought.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Good phones should last several years. Mine, despite a case, landed perfectly on a jagged surface that easily bypassed any protection the case offered.

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Cathy Sipes's avatar

You think you have an old phone, I'm using a Motorola 2021. But I have no space and I have to reboot it after it sits awhile.

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Louise Walk's avatar

I totally understand your phone dilema as I JUST exchanged my iPhoneX for an iPhone 16e the other day. It was a difficult but necessary decision.

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Miriam Boland's avatar

Mine also, reading between the artistic cracks! And no matter how it falls gravity turns it around, also, so its glass hits the road (or whatever!). Something my land line never did. But also my landline didn’t have maps that always tell me the most mixed-up way to get somewhere! 🫢

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Aren’t maps great? I, for one, love going in a giant circle to take the left that is behind me. Not a fan of AI art, but would love a little intelligence in maps.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Been an Apple guy for a couple decades. Before that I was a Motorola three watt guy. Yeah, you had a shoulder harness to carry the batteries. And it was about 700 a month. But it was business. Paid for itself. Now,I literally want to throw my phone in the disposer. I have a few bandmates I talk to. That’s it. But I get ads anytime if the day or night. My bride insists I keep it,just in case. Too old for this. Btw, I’m on a tablet.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

I’ve seen the shoulder harness phones. My father was in to a lot of tech stuff. Alas, it was HAM radio for him. Morse Code was the original texting.

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Miriam Boland's avatar

I dunno about apple anymore. I mean, that’s all I have, iPad, iPhone, et al. But no more ice-detectors! Not a good move on their part. Mr Jobs must be throwing apple cores out of his grave at this point!

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nora noneofyourdamnbusines's avatar

If you already had the ice blocker it should still work.

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Miriam Boland's avatar

No alas, I turned on my phone last night and it was gone!

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nora noneofyourdamnbusines's avatar

Mine still appears to be up and running. 🤷‍♀️

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Miriam Boland's avatar

U r lucky! I went back and tried again and zip…. Melting ice cube 🧊

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JES's avatar

I've had decent luck with my phone.

In Japan, self-service counters are in a few places, pretty much the big chain stores. My friends are enjoying your comics, too!

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Stephen Beals's avatar

Thank you!

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