Endtown by Aaron Neathery for May 30, 2013

looks like phones nave somehow been re-routed.

But what about the police that walked a beat?, Like the Bull who approached Wally & Holly in the strip TSOJ posted in yesterday’s comments. And was that the same bull working security at Jacob Jackrabbit’s seminar? Is the Donkey from a Commonwealth country because he(?) used the British slang “bloody”? (I’m a little sensitive to Britishisms because at age 15 I fell down a long flight of concrete steps, and came up with Foreign Accent Syndrome before anyone around me knew what it was, and spent years trying to purge myself of that accent. Neither a Posh nor a Received English accent viewed without suspicion in Southwest Louisiana.JusSayin

Next question. did you try calling OUT!???Likely all in and out in that office has been confiscated by someone one who is very naughty. Lets take votes on this . WHO Done it!!Blessed Be

Walt: “Is that your phone bill on the corner there?”Grout: “One of them, yes.”Walt: “And you haven’t paid it in what, 2 months and 18 days?”Grout: “Oh, does this mean you’re here to discuss the latest budget cuts you pushed on this department, sir?”

I’m surprised there weren’t three chimps there in uniform with their hands over their eyes, ears, and mouths and oddly looking like the three stooges. Or maybe the OOD is a REALLY sound sleeper

We also use… the B word here in Australia.

Next stop: whoever’s on the switchboard…

It’s not that the phone is broken, but calls aren’t coming in. It’s either good, because the populace police themselves, or bad, because they know the cops are useless (in Endtown.. I am not trying to insult any officers of the law in “our” world!)

Sigh. A moment’s silence for Jack Vance.

You know the Mayor reminds me of Henry Blake (mash) with the fishing hat and all..\\//_

An answer to part of the mystery. That is along time for the phones to be jacked. Two months and 15 days. This conspiracy as several of us speculate has been going on for some time.Next place to go to would be to ask Denise what she was told to do or how to handle when calls come in. Of course being a cop I could tell him to make sure the phone is bloody well plugged in. I would still like to see his copy of “Police Gazette Donut Edition”

Origin of “bloody” goes back for years 17th century. At first not much but began to get to appear more “profane” so it was a bit more shocking when used especially in Britian. Really hit the stage in 1914 in Shaw’s play Pygmalion when the actress Mrs Campbell as Eliza Doolittle adlib the phase in the line "Walk! Not “bloody” well likely!" Caused a stir in Britain.Now in Australia those folks use it constantly with no problems. Where Britain found it offense the Aussies used it constantly adding it to any thing the “bloody” well wanted too.I see it as their way of jabbing back at the old “homeland”.Statement of Independence so to say.

Well, he’s a very polite jackass.Still, one would think that one of the beat cops would have seen something.

I have a terrible feeling that whomever is running the police switchboard is puposely switching Police calls over to Security.And that “whomever” is either Velda, or someone secretly working for her.TIME TO START WALKING THE BEAT AGAIN, COPPERS!!!

You would think, though, that cops who suddenly stopped getting calls would get a little, well, suspicious, wouldn’t you?

Here’s for you NabuEver hear of Eugenics?Guess who was a follower of the rule of genetic purity and control.Churchill and Shaw and Hitler. They were all followers of it. There some places in the US initiated Eugenic laws for the sterilization of “defectives”. 1907 Indiana Law repealed 1921 then reinstated 1927. All those in state custody could be forced sterilized. Finally the law was fully repealed 1974 and 1977 the restrictive marriage laws which were if you were declared mentally unfit you were forbidden from marriage. So if you suffered from Downs Syndrome you were not allowed to marry.Seems to me Churchill and Shaw were on the same platform. Although Shaw was a stout supporter of Socialism in its pure form. Not what it got turned into by others. This dislike I feel came from the fact that Shaw was very well established (and IRISH) where Churchill had to build himself into who he became. Read about Churchill’s early live he was a real bad speaker and whiner. He was not the great orator in his youth he learned it later to make himself seem bigger than life.

It was connected two months and fifteen days ago.

OH NO I had a think.I know what happened. They converted the phone system to the new self dialing rotary edition. The old “cat” who operated the old plug in switch board system retired. The PD has not upgraded to the new BELL system. Remember she use to say “NUMBER PLEASEmeow?”“Stand bymeow. I will connect your callmeow.”Now I am getting to silly. meow.

Actually you can answer the phone calls that do not come in. It is called patrolling. It works.