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The tone played at the end is likely a howler tone, not fast busy.
 
The tone played at the end is likely a howler tone, not fast busy.
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Do we really need an explanation of every noise landline phones make? Only two really apply here, ringing and howling. Since even cellphones have ringtones, I don't think ringing would need to be explained in the detail that it is, just something like "These phones would make a series of rings on receiving a call (as shown in the first panel) and would automatically stop ringing and answer when picked up."
 
Do we really need an explanation of every noise landline phones make? Only two really apply here, ringing and howling. Since even cellphones have ringtones, I don't think ringing would need to be explained in the detail that it is, just something like "These phones would make a series of rings on receiving a call (as shown in the first panel) and would automatically stop ringing and answer when picked up."

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Could it be a reference to this? http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/phd/cellularsquirrel/ ‎108.162.216.68 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I think it might be a reference to this: ‘Vampire squirrel’ caught on camera for the first time ever – Washington Post. --141.101.104.234 07:35, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
agreed: [1] 108.162.221.8 10:25, 16 September 2015 (UTC)


What about the old "Bananaphone" pun? 188.114.106.131 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)


Sometimes I wonder if the joke is to make ExplainXKCD squirm. 108.162.221.150 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

^ Not really. Those like me who used SquirrelMail had a laugh. Mostly every XKCD joke is incomprehensible to people not familiar with the subject of the joke. 108.162.229.135 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

"a living squirrel being not an appropiate creature to mantain a phone call. "... well, duh. Everyone knows that a squid would make MUCH more sense! 108.162.250.161 05:16, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

A puppy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tiNwOpZ68 108.162.229.182 14:11, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
I doubt this is supposed to be about SquirrelMail; it's much more likely to just be "Bananaphone" with a squirrel. 108.162.237.193 05:33, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Maybe a _dead_ squirrel would work better. At least it wouldn't bite... Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 08:16, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

"chomp" is also a command on unixoid operating systems that removes characters which carry no information (leading, trailing white spaces, newlines etc) from strings. Seems like the squirrelphone removed every bit of non-information, essentially cutting the call to nothing. 162.158.92.167 07:10, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Whoever put that [needs citation] in there deserves a medal XD Apbarratt (talk) 08:34, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Summary of POTS should be present tense - POTS is still active. 108.162.215.179 16:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

The tone played at the end is likely a howler tone, not fast busy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-hook_tone -- Trenin (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Do we really need an explanation of every noise landline phones make? Only two really apply here, ringing and howling. Since even cellphones have ringtones, I don't think ringing would need to be explained in the detail that it is, just something like "These phones would make a series of rings on receiving a call (as shown in the first panel) and would automatically stop ringing and answer when picked up." I must admit I'm young enough that my first impulse for a squirrelphone beeping was "Oh, it must be one of those wireless home phone recievers and it's low on battery." I suppose squirrelphones must still be wired, though, though it doesn't look like it. 173.245.50.142 17:39, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Seems like we do need the explanation for the ring tones. Sine this is a real squirrel imitating a phone, it is of course not wired. It just pretends making the appropriate sounds. --Kynde (talk) 19:38, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

How do we know it's not a phone pretending to be a squirrel? Mikemk (talk) 23:55, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

What if the squirrel swallowed a phone? Like in Jurassic Park, when the spinosaurus swallows the satellite phone? 108.162.219.91 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)