Difference between revisions of "615: Avoidance"
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| − | :[Cueball is | + | :[Cueball is sitting in a chair holding a phone to his ear while his Cueball-like friend talks to him.] |
| − | : | + | :Friend: Did you call that hot girl from the party yet? |
| − | : | + | :Cueball: I've been trying. |
| − | : | + | :[In a frame-less panel Cueball looks at his phone and talks to his friend.] |
| + | :Cueball: It's weird. I swear I got her the first time. But now it says the number's wrong. | ||
| − | :Cueball: What did you say she did, again? | + | :[Zoom in on the friend, Cueball talking to him off-panel.] |
| − | : | + | :Friend: What did you say she did, again? |
| − | : | + | :Cueball (off-panel): Voice work. At Verizon, I think. |
| − | : | + | :Cueball (off-panel): Why? |
| + | :Friend: No reason. | ||
| − | :[Megan is talking into a phone, in an italic voice.] | + | :[Megan is talking into a phone, in an italic voice. Cueball's remark is shown emanating from the phone with a zig-zag line, also the click from haning up the phone is shown like that.] |
:Megan: ''We're sorry, your call could not be completed as dialed.'' | :Megan: ''We're sorry, your call could not be completed as dialed.'' | ||
| − | : | + | :Cueball (over the phone): Damn. |
:''*Click*'' | :''*Click*'' | ||
:Megan: ''Please check the number and try again.'' | :Megan: ''Please check the number and try again.'' | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | ||
Revision as of 20:24, 11 May 2019
| Avoidance |
 Title text: Hobby: seeing how many menu selections you can get someone to go through before they realize you're not an automated system and/or hang up. |
Explanation
Megan gave her number to Cueball at a party, but now doesn't want to talk to him. Because Megan works with recording voice messages at Verizon, she can with no effort put on the characteristical semi-lifeless tone of professional automated answers, and answer the phone with the "call cannot be completed"-message. Perhaps it was even she who recorded it in the first place.
The title text is a reference to Randall's Hobby series and can be interpreted as Reverse Turing test with Cueball imitating an Interactive voice response system.
Transcript
- [Cueball is sitting in a chair holding a phone to his ear while his Cueball-like friend talks to him.]
- Friend: Did you call that hot girl from the party yet?
- Cueball: I've been trying.
- [In a frame-less panel Cueball looks at his phone and talks to his friend.]
- Cueball: It's weird. I swear I got her the first time. But now it says the number's wrong.
- [Zoom in on the friend, Cueball talking to him off-panel.]
- Friend: What did you say she did, again?
- Cueball (off-panel): Voice work. At Verizon, I think.
- Cueball (off-panel): Why?
- Friend: No reason.
- [Megan is talking into a phone, in an italic voice. Cueball's remark is shown emanating from the phone with a zig-zag line, also the click from haning up the phone is shown like that.]
- Megan: We're sorry, your call could not be completed as dialed.
- Cueball (over the phone): Damn.
- *Click*
- Megan: Please check the number and try again.
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Randall, being male, obviously doesn't know that if the woman isn't interested in the guy asking for her number she will just give a made-up number! -- The Cat Lady (talk) 16:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- "I swear I got her the first time." Perhaps she was interested at first, but lost interest and is doing this in hopes he'll stop contacting? Tsumikiminiwa (talk) 23:40, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Mmmmm, sweet sweet stereotyping. 172.70.85.221 14:11, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
