Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 15, 2020

For you younger readers, that’s called a dial phone.

Let me guess… Lio has the Number of the Beast…

I like the rotary-dial sound effect; it’s very good. And I like Lio playing a practical joke on that derned virus, by golly!

Where’s the handcrank ?

I wonder if Lio has ever called the local food mart and asked if they have Dr Pepper in a bottle……..

see, Virus…if you had sprung for one of those devices that shows the phone number, you would have known this was a crank call!

WOW! virus has hands bigger than the rezident of OUR White House!

“Hello Central?”

Is your refrigerator running? Is Anita Mann there? Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Fauci calls so many times, i would think the virus would remember the number or at least have him on speed dial.

I’m getting kinda sick of the virus jokes

Ha, youngsters. I remember having to click the receiver at my grandmother’s house to get the operator. You gave her the four digit number or just the name of the person and she connected you. Most homes were on a party line too so sometimes you’d talk to a whole neighborhood at once.

The sound the phone makes is simply awesome!

Loving this series!

Are they in a communications museum?

rotary

Good one but on a serious note: Where did he go?

Shick-a-ka-ka?! On man, I’m glad he didn’t have to dial too my nines!

I now recall when Lio had a guest appearance in “Pearls Before Swine.” He was sent to call the fire department, but he didn’t say anything, so the place burned down.

Just FWIW, the phone type that followed rotaries was the “touch tone” phone. (And I never heard the term “rotary” until after "touch tones’ showed up, and we needed to differentiate between types of phones).