FoxTrot by Bill Amend for May 16, 2010
Transcript:
Jason: Can you tell I changed my birth year on it? Peter: It says you're 21. Jason: I know. I need to be 21 to get into bars. Peter: Dare I ask why you want to get into bars? Jason: I want to start leaving fake iPhone prototypes on bar stools for tech bloggers to find. If history is any guide, this will send the entire internet into a frenzy of foaming-at-the-mouth analysis and debate. The first one I'm making will use a car battery and weigh 30 pounds. It'll have those big rabbit ear antennas they use to put on top of TV sets. No sane person will want this phone. Watching Apple fanboys defend it will be the funnies thing ever! Peter: No, the funniest thing ever would be you flashing you elementary school I.D. card to a bar bouncer. Jason: I could try my "honorary star fleet cadet" card, but I'm wearing Spock ears in the photo... Peter: I stand corrected.
garfield246 over 14 years ago
If you want to be convincing Jason, get plastic surgery to look older so people will think you’re a midget.
Rakkav over 14 years ago
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
Quite possibly, the funniest Sunday FoxTrot of all time - at least given the mood I’[m in this evening.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
At 14, my card said 23. I looked 14. Sad comment on society, the card worked most of the time.
skeeterhawk over 14 years ago
What I thought was wacky, was the fact that he’d be stupid enough to go into bars to leave an IT gizmo. Only the complete imbeciles, who only care about partying and getting drunk, reside in bars.
What made Jason think anyone in a bar would have any concept of what an Iphone is? Much less be a tech blogger, who’d be drunk enough to think his gizmo was an Apple product.
Yeah, Jason’s insanity is two-fold this time.
(Unless the few bars I’ve been in don’t represent the majority of them. Then I guess THAT joke is on ME.)
Dkram over 14 years ago
Bar none.
\\//_
Altrissa over 14 years ago
Skeeterhawk: The reason Jason is talking about this is because it’s already happened TWICE. Two different Apple employees left iPhone prototypes in bars. The first time, the guy who found it sold it to Gizmodo..There’s been a huge lawsuit going on ever since.
rgtichy over 14 years ago
skeeterhawk must spend all his/her time posting to online comment forums to have missed all the hubbub over the lost iPhone(s) and the lengths Apple went to in trying to et them back and punish those who had them.
wcorvi over 14 years ago
No, rgtichy, invariably someone just describes the comic as if we are too stupid to read it. As in, “so, in the first panel, Jason says, ‘Can you tell….’ ”
Sandfan over 14 years ago
Jason should just hang on for a few months, and he’ll have a National ID card that he can change the age on.
ashleypoostashio over 14 years ago
wow they would never notice you arent 20
JTGAM over 14 years ago
I want an honorary Star Fleet Cadet ID!
sharon27 over 14 years ago
hey skeeterhawk, the joke is on you.
crlinder over 14 years ago
Without a doubt, one of the funniest FoxTrot strips I’ve seen. Hilarious from start to finish. Didn’t even have to wait for the last panel to start chuckling.
swiggy57 over 14 years ago
This is truly the funniest Foxtrot of all times! Love the contemporary twist of the i-phone, and then Jason’s comment on apple users defending the product.
This was even better than Jason going trick or treating as the BSOD
(that’s Blue Screen Of Death for the non-tech types and skeeterhawk )
chinook2 over 14 years ago
Best. Foxtrot. Ever.
chinook2 over 14 years ago
Wait, his elementary school has ID cards?
chinook2 over 14 years ago
I think Jason should instead put the fake prototype inside a coffee shop in Seattle, so the Microsoft people could make a Zune-phone that they would say is ‘Definitely better than the iPhone 4G’
batmanwithprep over 14 years ago
The definition of what Apple did:
urbandictionary.com/protohype
wetidlerjr over 14 years ago
A classic…
starguy over 14 years ago
Is this how James T. Kirk got started?
keltii over 14 years ago
naw Kirk got started stealing cars, and going to Juvie,, then he had a bar fight,, as far as i can tell,,
Comic-Nut over 14 years ago
21 ??? Bars ??? iPhone proto-types I can understand but all he needs to do is leave something behind in a coffee shop and the same dweebs, i.e. tech bloggers, would chaff at the bit to look it over. However, I don’t think that someone would be so stupid as to accept something like Jason is proposing as a new proto-type. But the essence of this strip is appealing in its humor. LOL
Destiny23 over 14 years ago
At least it should have LOOOOOONG battery life!
TheOtherSteve over 14 years ago
Hey, I’m an Apple fan boy and I would never want … well … you know that kind of looks interesting … strangely I feel an attraction to … It’s so shinny and looks … I GOT TO HAVE IT!!! WHEN IS IT COMING OUT, WHEN, WHEN?!?!?!?
Sent from my iPhone
latenightmusings over 14 years ago
http://latenightmusings.com/2010/05/14/little-orphan-annie–rip.aspx
Awesomenessunleashed25 over 14 years ago
He should go on stilts…that could be more convincing
MJ J about 4 years ago
what do they mean, into “Bars”?