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                MONstErs  |  CONtINUED FrOM PAGE 13      when voice messages have to jump between             PUNS FOR THE SLIGHTLY
                                                         cell towers. A phone with a name that
      all other planets in all the galaxies in the       sounds like Samantha just finished the Star          HIGHER IQ
      universe times 10.                                 Spangled Banner at a Broncos game, gets              Submitted by Jule Fink/Brantely
          Lenny’s phone was just nominated for           decent ratings for voice transmission, but           Those who jump off a bridge in Paris
      the Nobel Peace Prize. Monday, he bought           still is not great.                                  are in Seine.
      a new version of his smart phone because              So, how can these devices play Wagner’s           A man’s home is his castle, in a manor
      his previous version ran off with Minnie,          entire Ring of the Nibelung cycle with per-          of speaking.
      his wife.                                          fect diction, in English, German, French,            Dijon vu—the same mustard as before.
          Minnie imagined a brighter future with         Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Pig Latin, and           Shotgun wedding—A case of wife or
      the phone than with Lenny. Last he heard,          Gansta Rap, but can’t replicate a reasonably         death.
      the phone changed its identity and is sip-         clear human voice?                                   A man needs a mistress just to break
      ping piña coladas with Minnie on a beach              Still, there’s a bright side to nearly            the monogamy.
      near Cancun. He now tells me his new cell          everything.  These  overpriced  hunks  of            A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
      phone is eyeing his neighbor’s wife.               modern technology will be obsolete in about          Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a
          These technological marvels are effi-          45 minutes. You’ll have to shell out another         form of floor play.
      cient, versatile, and better looking than          grand to get another phone that can do               Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
      Brad Pitt. But as phones, they suck.               exponentially more neat stuff, except you’ll         Condoms  should  be  used  on  every
          They’re  called  “smart  phones.”  No          still sound like Darth Vader singing the             conceivable occasion.
      doubt, they’re brilliant devices. But they’re      Chipmunks to the folks you call.                     Reading while sunbathing makes you
      dumb phones. Dumb as a dog in a rain storm            Unfortunately, you can’t just throw an            well red.
      even though they can tell you when it’s            old smart phone away. Landfills won’t take           When two egotists meet, it’s an I for
      going to rain 12 years in advance. But when        them. They ingest all the other garbage and          an I.
      they issue advance warning of a rainstorm,         belch it out in one, great cloud of toxic mist       A bicycle can’t stand on its own because
      it comes through as, “trll b fnndx shlrm           that covers your town, denudes all the elm           it is two tired.
      burly, voldlbygf.”                                 trees, and kills most of the lilac bushes.           In democracy your vote counts. In
          I won’t mention brand names because I          Want to be responsible for that?                     feudalism your count votes.
      may have to scrape up half a billion dollars          Furthermore, they retain all your con-            She was engaged to a boyfriend with a
      when the company named after a fruit               tact information. They know where you                wooden leg but broke it off.
      sues me for defamation of character, even          are, where you’ve been, and where you’re             A chicken crossing the road is poultry
      though cell phones have neither character          going. They’re capable of hot-wiring every           in motion.
      nor personality.                                   car Ford ever made and showing up in your            If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get
          Lenny’s cell phone has a name that             driveway. Over and over and over again.              repossessed.
      includes “i” and ends with “Phone,” but               Stephen King loves these things. MsN              With her marriage she got a new name
      phones with other names also mess up                                                                    and a dress.







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