Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for February 27, 2025

…..or the phone booth.

Caller ID

Robo calls

Atta boy, Skyler!

The twisted pair.

Good answer.

1 phone is only good if you like talking to yourself.

And after that, telemarketers.

Amazing, a joke actually legitimately funny enough for me to forgive the clumsy forced setup

Alexander Bell would say it was the patent office.

Ask a dumb question.

I was embarrassingly old when I learned that the Radio Corporation of America invented the National Broadcasting Company because they needed to give people a reason to buy a radio.

Electricity? Telephone poles? Wire?

Unemployment insurance for telegraph operators

Television and game shows.

Badda boom!

The private line was clearly the second great invention. There was always on neighbor lady listening in previously.

Good thinking.

How would one know if the first telephone worked until they had a second.

Good one!

Sorry. . .indoor plumbing and tiolet paper. . .ALWAYS!!!!!

A cartoon that ran in one magazine showed Leonardo da Vinci riding a bicycle into a room. But one unimpressed bystander commented, “Leonardo thinks he’s such a genius. Wait till he finds out he still has to invent the brake!”

Sarcasm