Jenny, Can You Hear Me?

I generally don't pay much attention to user reviews at Amazon, but I was sent this wackiness today. Some fairly clever people with way too much time on their hands comment on a compilation of Family Circus cartoons. You'll never view that comic the same way again--that is, if you're lame enough to actually look for it in the paper.

Seeing these reviews brought to mind the Dysfunctional Family Circus, a site that I was sorry to learn is now defunct, at least in its original form. (There are sites that reference it, however, and here's one that reproduces it.) The concept: Real Family Circus cartoons received the caption treatment from users; while often quite stupid, many of them were inspired. And, of course, given the nature of the Internet, deviant.

In searching for that site, I came across a guy who took it upon himself to dial all of the possible 867-5309 numbers. It's not that humorous--most of the numbers are disconnected--but I did enjoy the answering machine message at area code 678.