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Caption:

And for the rest of his life, Ernie told his friends that he had talked with God.

Alt text:

Hello? Hello? This is God! Who’s this? / Uh, this is Ernie Miller, sir. / Ernie who? Is this 555-1728? / No, this is 555-1782 / Sorry. / Click

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  • m_‮f@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Some background on this comic:

    Transcript:

    THE WRONG NUMBER

    Larry lived alone in his small inner-city apartment. He had no friends and most people ignored him at all costs.

    Then one day, unexpectedly, the phone rang. And Larry was surprised to find himself talking to God.

    “Is this 555-3178?” God asked.

    “No, this is 555-7138.”

    “Sorry.” And God hung up.

    The chapter opened with:

    Sometimes ideas have come out of short stories or ramblings I write just to shift gears once in a while. Cartoons are, after all, little stories themselves, frozen at an interesting point in time. What follows are several stories that either led to cartoons, could have led to cartoons, or were just ideas in and of themselves.

    Interesting that this seems to have been published after its inclusion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side. Or maybe they just forgot to include the resulting comic. Some of the other short stories have the resulting comic included.