September 22nd, 2009
New Phone
Man, two events coming up this week!
September 23 (Wednesday): Underground Launch Party! 6-8pm, Bridge City Comics, 3725 N. Mississippi Ave (Portland, OR). RSVP on Facebook (Or just show up)
September 26-27 (The weekend!): SPX! 5701 Marinelli Road., Bethesda, MD. I will speaking on the Comic Strips: Online and In Print panel (with Kate Beaton, R. Stevens, Julia Wertz and moderator Marc Singer) and presenting the Ignatz Award for Best Online Comic.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
THat was awesome! I love a good laugh in the morning. Thanks :0)
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 am
Man, when I was first learning how to use the internet when I was younger, I accidentally set a naked woman as the background of the family computer. You better believe I taught myself how to fix THAT and quick. D:
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:48 am
This pretty much sums up my relationship with fancy new phones these days. Awesome!
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:48 am
Retribution for the butt phone. :D
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:28 am
That is freakin’ hilarious. I’m a tech support person; never thought of motivating people to learn new things in *that* way – thanks for the ideas. Bwahahaha!
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 am
My wife made me take a picture of my penis on our friends camera, when he was drunk. But now, now I know to take pictures of my balls on my friends phone. If only my wife was as clever as the internet. Now if only we can convince all the men of the vet school to take a picture of their penis on our friends phone.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:13 am
I totally get what you mean by the new phone is too complicated. I work for a cell phone company and honestly, I hate half the new phones we have because they’re too complicated for what I need to do!
I like your reason for having to learn how to use it better than mine hahah.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 am
You should include the tag “Matt’s Genitals” as this is not the first comic in which they have been discussed.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
I set my butt as my boyfriend’s cell background over a year ago and it’s still there now. That’s love. At certain points in time, my boobs were his laptop background and his butt was mine, but laptops are less private so they didn’t stay, sadly.
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:58 am
Jeric has it right. Between this and the Buttphone Saga, I think I’m going to start wearing gloves when I call you guys.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 pm
My butt was the background of my boyfriend’s phone for a long time. When he was readng this comic over my shoulder, he said “oh, the things I’ve been tempted to take pictures of when you’ve left your phone here…” Eek!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:00 am
me and my girlfriend are the same way. i make fun of her for having a phone that she can use to call people and set alarms, when mine does all this craziness like track satellites and make sandwiches. she has to ask how to just call people with my phone…
“it’s not that hard… you go to start –> applications –> voice services –> new –> call –> new person –> you input the number, add it to contacts, and then press “call normally”
…it’s simple, really”
PS this is getting comic’d… once i get a scanner that’s not broked.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 am
I have to say that your husband is a genius. A twist, warped and depraved genius. But then again we English are prone to ingenious solutions that tend to involve somebody, somewhere exposing themselves. No idea why.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
uh. rather interesting tactic.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:48 pm
I spent all day trying to figure out where I posted a comment about taking pictures of my penis. From about 12:30 until now, I couldn’t figure it out.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
This reminds me of Arrested Development: “Balls always look like landscape from that distance”.
September 25th, 2009 at 5:11 am
Matt is a genius.
September 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
This reminds of me of a simple lesson everyone in my unit has learned at one point. Never, never ,ever leave your cell phone unattended in the Army. Someone will take a picture of their dick if you do so, set it as your background, and send the pic to everyone in your phone book. >:)
September 26th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Hehe. I just found DAR yesterday and have already read everything on here. :) I loves it lots. You remind me a lot of my male.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Hahaha, the first thing i did with my blackberry was browse the net for a good set of boobs for it’s background wallpaper :D
September 26th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Godzilla — maybe you can get your phone to do it!
September 27th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
picked up your card at SPX today; just read the webcomic from the start!!! love it! my phone is ancient and held together with painter’s tape, I was thinking of getting a new one but maybe not :)
September 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I really, really have to go to England sometime. Where else would you find such an awesome, twisted sense of humour that’s spread through the collective unconscious of a whole country?
September 28th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
my boyfriend and i read the last year or so of your comic backwards after seeing the dildo-shopping ones featured on beautifulagony.com.
now i have no less than two photos of his balls on my phone. (he set one to be my background, but scaled it way up so that it really just looked like a neat texture!)
so… thanks! i think?
September 28th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Does this mean you’ve traded a junk phone for a junk-phone?
October 1st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
The question I’m filled with is this: Did he flip the phone correctly, or did he just move the peener over and snap naturally, resulting in an upside down ballsack reminiscent of the monster from This Island Earth?
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
…dude, I would keep the background picture. >.> But nobody really uses my phone. And maybe that’s just me.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
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February 14th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
hmmm… that could be a way to motivate the users at work who are less willing to take time to make their machinery work rather than calling the emergency help desk for every. little. problem. that most others are able to work out with the help of the incredibly sophisticated sensing and processing engines god/nature gifted them with…
then again they’d probably just cry for help anyway, and then we’re in a whole other world of hurt.
i feel the PHT here though. Shiny new features get a SQUEE +1 from myself, but it seems like with every new advance in awesome capability some twonk comes along and adds an extra few points to the Stupid, Obscure and Insulting stats of the UI. Pretty much anyone could get through the menus of a 3310 quickly and easily, and all it’s really missing off the capabilities of a modern phone are photos, music and internet. So why is my N79 such an utter pain in the unmentionables by comparison? There’s many times, despite being a dyed in the wool techno freak (merely an impoverished one, hence, it’s not a top of the range Android/8910HD/similar), I’ve been very tempted to pull one of those trusty old candybars (or better yet the late-90s motorola brick, though it shares with the N79 the disadvantage of not having Snake – or the ringtone composer I used to waste so much time on!) from its dusty retirement home in a fit of pique at some stupid thing Symbian has done to me. After all, I still have a proper camera and MP3 player… and internet cafes still struggle on.
March 17th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
That… is a GREAT way to motivate someone to learn to use their phone! lol