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[mudokon]

Man, that sure sounds like Pat's dad. All blowing on the kazoo like that. Does this help explain why Pat is such a dick?

Looking back, the past few strips have been pretty bad, so it's nice that the last strip of the week was able to make me laugh.

[pmcd9]

Talk about your raising more questions than it answers.

~Paul

[Karva]

Marcel?...

I love Pat's expression in the second panel.  Geez Pat, it's just a phone ringing!

[V-Adore]

I like the idea that Pat's dad is some sort of wild and crazy kazooing guy and that's made him into the dick we know today. I laughed.

[AugustWest]

I think the technical term for this is "Flanders Syndrome".

[Doc]

Am I incorrect to instantly think 'Hippies' when people discuss trips to somewhere called Burning Man?

This is definitely my favourite strip of the week but that probably has as much to do with my general mood as with the strip quality. It's nice to get some idea of why Pat is such an eco-health-nut but in such an anal retentive way. Agree with August on the Flanders thing.

FAthEr is also good, it either indicates that he can't work the caller ID thing properly (and the mental image of Pat screaming incoherently at a piece of technology is fun) or he wanted to scream the word in text but then thought better of it but couldn't go back and fix it and now every time his father calls Pat is reminded of his past failure and so hates Simon just a little more.

[Noah]

i think the text on the machine is all randomly capitalized because those weird digital clock-style led panel-things can't form certain upper/lowercase letters

EDIT: i just realized that nitpicking like that basically makes me an asshole

sorry

[pmcd9]

EDIT: i just realized that nitpicking like that basically makes me an asshole

That's basically the foundation of this board.

~Paul

[Bobby Isosceles]

I like how Pat was irritated a priori at receiving a phone call, before he saw who it was (panel two)

[robot_roll_call]

Marcel? Is that his father's boyfriend? Because it would go a long way explaining that closeted vibe I get from Pat. Also, I would very much like to hear the Pat Song, performed on a kazoo.

[evan]

I would very much like to hear the Pat Song, performed on a kazoo.

A Him or a Her,
a Ma'am or a Sir,
or whatever It might be!
It's time for androgeny,
It's just Pat!

[robot_roll_call]

I would very much like to hear the Pat Song, performed on a kazoo.

A Him or a Her,
a Ma'am or a Sir,
or whatever It might be!
It's time for androgeny,
It's just Pat!

god dammit

[starlight]

I used to call my dad by his first name when I was little... not in a harsh tone though.  it was just a weird habit.

Also, I sometimes get mad without even knowing who's calling, too... sometimes the phone will ring a billion times in one day and most of them are telemarketers, so it gets rather frustrating even if eventually it is a real call.. grrr.

[side_show]

This is the first time I've ever had sympathy for Pat.

The Pat-like truth about me is that I get mad when the phone rings. Though I don't have call display, when the phone rings I usually assume it's my mom calling for the 4th time that day, to ask me if I want some old hand towels she is about to throw away.  That is actually why she called last.  

Seriously folks, my mother calls four times a day minimum.  She calls with the urgent requirement that I decide if I want the left over bulgar she made because my dad doesn’t like it and she made too much, or to ask if I want a coupon for a product I never buy, that she thinks I should try based on the information in and advert she read and the fact the coupons is for 10 cents off, etc.  And if I don’t answer the phone she leaves long pointless messages about how my father doesn’t want to go the Folklorama Japanese Pavilion,  so she’s going to have him drive her there and he'll sit outside in the car while she sees the show.  Could there be a more passive aggressive way of letting me know that she wants me to take her to the stupid pavilion even though I’ve made it perfectly clear in three of four other conversations that I do not want to go?  Goddamn it people.

Anyway, Doc, yes, it's a fair assumption that the people who attend Burning Man are - or aligns themselves with - hippies.

[arkabee]

i, too, suffer from phone-ringer induced traumatic response syndrome.

if i hear a ringer, any ringer, my "ire" is raised.

it is sad, this feeling, because the phone is an amazingly valuable tool/system.

i wish i did not have this weakness.