Taking The Joy Out of Phone Calls
Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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This is suspiciously specific.Report
He should just be glad it wasn’t Julie from Visa/Mastercard services calling about his cars extended warranty.Report
Interesting detail – one dictionary has that ‘Bushwa[h]’ at the time (1910s-1920s) was slang for ‘nonsense’ (and likely a bowdlerized form ‘bullshit’)
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/bushwah
So it works on one level as that era’s ‘555’ trope but also as a more specific joke at the main character’s expense.Report