Not hard to understand the overall point! But go ahead and have some fun with the IDs, the choices, and the symbols. (Lee who?)
In the wrong hands
Your call is very important to us [OT]
When I’m on hold, if they play some bland, inoffensive music, I can put my headset on, and ignore it for hours, as I work, read e-mails, etc… A long wait can be a little annoying, but it’s not really a big deal.
If they interrupt the music to tell me “your call is very important to us” I can’t ignore the interruption. Having a person “talking” to me jolts me to attention, and disrupts me from whatever else I’m trying to do. It doesn’t make me feel like my call is important to them; it just makes me more aware of how long I’ve been on hold, and increases my annoyance. And if I’m on hold for 45 minutes, and the music is interrupted every 35 seconds to tell me that my call is very important to them, that shifts from annoying to maddening. (You may begin to guess that these numbers are not arbitrary, but based on a recent experience.)
Anyway, this is not (just) a rant, but a genuine question: What’s the point of interrupting the call like that? Is my reaction atypical? It seems “obvious” that this is annoying, and will not endear the company to me. But almost every company in the world does it (albeit not with 35 second intervals), and it would be easy enough not to, so my guess is that there’s some logic behind it that I’m not seeing.
Knock knock knock
Contributed by Phil Smith III:
Apple TV
From Andréa.
Bonus Sunday LOLs – Bizarro!
One version suggested by Andréa, another plus discussion from Piraro in his blog.
Would it be fun to see that/those in an image-compare slider? I dunno, let’s try!
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, November 22nd, 2020
“This explains a lot” says Stan:
From Andréa:
But he still gets a lot of “Oh yeah? What did it use to be?”.
“To Serve Man”.
(Color version posted by Andréa in comments to Oh Deer Me thread!)
School for gifted neonates!
Never runs out.
A LOL-Eww from Bob Ball.
“Who will you be wearing to the awards?”
Saturday Morning Oys – November 21st, 2020
Of course, the way Keith draws his character, the “guns” couldn’t possibly mean “bulging biceps” — but the “drawn” is still the operative pun.
She’s one of the Rainy Day Women #s 12 and 35
Have you any Blagues?
An OY-LOL. All three -less words are real, though fernless doesn’t have any common use beyond “lacking a fern”.
Umm, oy … no comment!
Two Pearls!
From Andréa.
An Oy-Meta!
Th-th-that’s all folks!
Or isss it??
Synchron-Eww-Cities
A November 18th Synchron-eww-city from Andréa.
And another Synchron-eww-city from September 4th.
CXLVIII
From alGeo.
Covid consistency
Some comics completely ignore the new post-coronavirus world, continuing on as if nothing had changed. Some comics consistently reflect the new post-coronavirus world.
But some comics are inconsistent, sometimes acting as if they’re in a world with a pandemic, and sometimes acting as if they’re in a world without. And sometimes they’re even inconsistent within a single strip. For example:
Dagwood goes to work every day without a mask, as if there’s no coronavirus. That’s fine. But in what conceivable world, with or without COVID, does his boss plan an in-person Halloween party, but change it to a Zoom party at the last minute?
Send in your single worst offender for a comic that’s inconsistent in it’s treatment of coronavirus. Here, we mean a single daily strip that’s inconsistent within its panels on a single day, not one that’s just inconsistent between different days. Include “coronovirus inconsistency” in the e-mail title.
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