Speed Bump cartoon: phones tell kids their wired ancestors "had tails"
pickover · x · 2026-11-15
A single-panel tech cartoon by Dave Coverly (Speed Bump): two anthropomorphized cell phones stand before a framed portrait of an old corded telephone, telling a child phone, "That's right, dear, our ancestors had tails" — a joke about the coiled cord as an evolutionary relic.
The strip runs in hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, and the artist sells prints and signed collections of his work.
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