Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for December 21, 2015

The modern answer to “saved by the bell.”

So if you start getting texts saying to ‘come dig me out’ you’ll know dad didn’t quite go to the light after all.

….and some fool will go for it.

Cheaper to communicate with the dead this way

Better read than dead !

Please tell me it does not have a webcam too.

That will be the next big story, someone will report receiving signals on their computers from someone who has passed on.

No dead zone for that patron.

why not, their sticking that crap on everything else

It must be mandatory to send and receive texts with bad grammar and spelling. Along with a complete ignorance of pronouns and the English verb.I get texts from several people including a retired school principal and a semi-literate neighbor and sometimes they are indistinguishable. The neighbor only has a high school education. But the neighbor apologizes for his bad spelling and writing.I also get texts from a teenage girl who has the mental capacity of about a 10 year old. Her spelling is perfect. She knows how to use an on-line dictionary and write a simple declarative sentence.

I bet anything you buy at Mort’s can be put on a “lay-away” plan!

Yea; like the Chevy commercial; “Oh, that is SSSSOOOO awesome!” Makes me want to puke….

Morbid…

Why-wi?

Would a WiFi signal be able to penetrate through 6 feet under of dirt?

I kept, for many years, a framed business letter to me, from a Vice-President at Chase Manhattan Bank. On the brief, one page missive, I’d underlined and highlighted numerous spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors.When I’d first received the letter ( pre-email days ), I thought at first it was a joke, since I knew this individual prided himself on his business correspondence.I called him to laugh about the letter, only to discover it hadn’t been a joke. He didn’t realize the content .His private secretary of 25 years had recently left, and hadn’t trained a replacement . He was so used to rapidly dictating and signing letters ( without proof reading them ) , it never occurred to him that not every secretary at Chase wasn’t as skilled as the lady who retired.He tried for years to retrieve the original letter from me. I very kindly, sent him a copy but retained the original.