Editing 479: Tones

{{comic
| number    =479
| date      =September 22, 2008
| title     =Tones
| image     =tones.png
| titletext =I need a lawn, so I can yell at kids to stay off it.
}}

==Explanation==
Cellular phone users can set nearly ''anything'' as their {{w|ringtone}}; even the default rings on new phones are a short string of notes put together, and serve a dual purpose as a company's trademark. [[Cueball]] is saying that there's one thing in his life he's never compromised on: When someone calls his phone, it makes a ''ringing'' sound. Of course, this is a rather minor thing on which to make a stand.

The comic also seems to begin very seriously, and thus the comic relief is provided by the turn to the inconsequential; this is mirrored in the zooming-in to the cell phone.

To continue the comic's theme of Cueball-as-crochety-old-man, the title text says that he needs a lawn, so he can yell at kids to stay off of it — a stereotypical "old man" {{w|You_kids_get_off_my_lawn!|behavior}}.

Randall makes another complaint about ringtones in [[2272: Ringtone Timeline]].

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is standing in a room next to a round table, looking out a window. A blue and orange sunset is visible outside the window. There is a phone on the table. The text of the comic is in boxes, two for each panel. Cueball is not talking, but rather narrating in these boxes.]
:Narrator: I haven't lived a perfect life.
:Narrator: Made plenty of mistakes. Got my share of regrets.

:[Zooming in on Cueball and the table with the phone, window with colored sky still visible to the left.]
:Narrator: But there's one thing of which I'm proud.
:Narrator: One stand on which I've never wavered.

:[Zooms in on the cell phone on the table, Cueball and window outside the panel.]
:Narrator: When someone calls my phone,
:Narrator: it makes a goddamn <u>ringing</u> sound.

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