TELECOM Moderator <telecom@eecs.nwu.edu> (02/05/90)
The Jeff MacNelly "Shoe" comic for Sunday, February 4: The picture is of a telephone and an answering machine. The machine is operating, and speaking to a caller: "Hi! You've reached Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk.... I can't come to the phone right now..... Because I'm listening intently to this machine.... To see if you're someone I want to talk with. So, after the beep, start talking...... If I want to talk with you, I'll probably come on the phone with some lame excuse..... Such as, "I was just on the way out the door when I heard the phone." If you make it all the way through your message and I don't pick up, It's because I don't want to talk to you...." And the final picture shows the owl seated at his desk saying, "At last, an honest answering machine." Patrick Townson