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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
Cellular phone users can set nearly ''anything'' as their {{w|ringtone}}; even the default rings on new phones are a short string of notes put together, and serve a dual purpose as a company's trademark. [[Cueball]] is saying that there's one thing in his life he's never compromised on: When someone calls his phone, it makes a ''ringing'' sound. Of course, this is a rather minor thing on which to make a stand.
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Cellular phone users can set darn near ''anything'' as their ringtone; even the default rings on new phones are a short string of notes put together, and serve a dual purpose as a company's trademark. Cueball is saying that there's one thing in his life he's never compromised on: When someone calls his phone, it makes a ''ringing'' sound. Of course, this is a rather minor thing on which to make a stand.
  
The comic also seems to begin very seriously, and thus the comic relief is provided by the turn to the inconsequential; this is mirrored in the zooming-in to the cell phone.
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To continue the comic's theme of Cueball-as-crochety-old-man, the title text says that he needs a lawn, so he can yell at kids to stay off of it-- a stereotypical "old man" behavior.
 
 
To continue the comic's theme of Cueball-as-crochety-old-man, the title text says that he needs a lawn, so he can yell at kids to stay off of it a stereotypical "old man" {{w|You_kids_get_off_my_lawn!|behavior}}.
 
 
 
Randall makes another complaint about ringtones in [[2272: Ringtone Timeline]].
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:[Cueball is standing in a room next to a round table, looking out a window. A blue and orange sunset is visible outside the window. There is a phone on the table. The text of the comic is in boxes, two for each panel. Cueball is not talking, but rather narrating in these boxes.]
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:[Cueball standing in room next to round table, looking out window. Blue and orange sunset visible outside the window]
 
:Narrator: I haven't lived a perfect life.
 
:Narrator: I haven't lived a perfect life.
:Narrator: Made plenty of mistakes. Got my share of regrets.
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:Made plenty of mistakes.
 
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:Got my share of regrets.
:[Zooming in on Cueball and the table with the phone, window with colored sky still visible to the left.]
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:[Viewpoint zooms in onto Cueball and table. Cell phone visible on table.]
 
:Narrator: But there's one thing of which I'm proud.
 
:Narrator: But there's one thing of which I'm proud.
:Narrator: One stand on which I've never wavered.
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:One stand on which I've never wavered.
 
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:[Viewpoint zooms in onto cell phone on table.]
:[Zooms in on the cell phone on the table, Cueball and window outside the panel.]
 
 
:Narrator: When someone calls my phone,
 
:Narrator: When someone calls my phone,
:Narrator: it makes a goddamn <u>ringing</u> sound.
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:it makes a goddamn RINGING sound.
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
[[Category:Phones]]
 
[[Category:Kids]]
 

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