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− | | | + | [[File:Seventies.png|Hey, man, the 1670s called. They were like 'Wherefore this demonic inſtrument? By what ſorcery does it produce ſuch ſounds?"]] |
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− | + | Hey, man, the 1670s called. They were like 'Wherefore this demonic inſtrument? By what ſorcery does it produce ſuch ſounds?" | |
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− | This is | + | This is another take on the common insult "<insert some year> called and they want their shirt/hat/software/whatever back". Randall has used this joke before in the comic "[[0875|2009 Called]]". |
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− | + | In this case, this one is funny because someone in the 70s would not know how to leave a voicemail because answering machines and especially voicemail had not been invented yet. Also, his telephone has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial rotary dial], rather than a numberpad, so he can't "press 1". (I do enjoy the 70s guy with the hair and the bellbottom pants and no shirt. The pants the 70s guy is wearing are called "bellbottoms" and were in style in the 70s. They are called this because they are considerably wider at the bottom creating a sort of "bell" at the "bottom" of the pants.) | |
− | The | + | The image text plays off the fact that the telephone had not yet been invented in the seventeenth century. |
− | == | + | ==For our younger readers== |
− | : | + | [[File:746 telephone in red.JPG|right|thumb|A GPO 746, the standard UK telephone from the late 1960s to the 1980s]] |
− | + | Originally telephones had rotary dials instead of buttons. When you lifted the receiver you would hear a tone that let you know you had a connection and you could dial the number, this is the "dial tone." This is the origin of the phrases "dial tone" and "dialling a telephone number". | |
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