Near, Far
check your area codes, dummies!!!
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I love how quickly they have gone from “have to protect my identity from Internet creepers to “let’s do offline co-lab”. I wonder if they will use online handles to call each other or real names :)
Parents, always saying embarrassing things about their kids.
Back in the Dark Ages (before cell phones), and even in the Middle Ages (when cell phones were relatively new), area codes meant something. But once it became possible to keep your phone number - including the area code - when you moved (even if you changed carriers), area codes became pretty much useless for knowing someone's actual location. Sure, they're still relevant for landlines, but you don't really know if someone is calling you (or answering) from a landline, since it is also possible to transfer your old landline number to a cell phone. Of course, if they were thinking ahead, whoever initiated the call would have masked their number. Or better yet, called using a service that didn't even bother with telephone numbers (facebook messenger, for example, allows you to make an audio-only call to another user - no phone numbers required at all).
Of course, facebook calls require you finding/friending that person, which means to keep their anonymity they'd have to make fake accounts
Marigold's secret continues to not be safe
They are connected by one of our favorite link pins. He does connect quite the range of people in that little town in Mass.
Area codes aren't really a good indicator of where someone lives anymore. I still have my old CA mobile number, with it's area code unchanged, despite having moved to NY.
Same. PA area code in FL lol. They don't even question it down here.
So did anyone else look at the title and instantly think of Grover from Sesame Street progressively exhausting himself while singing “Around, around, around, around, over, and under, and through.”
No... I thought of the Celine Dion song "My heart will go on"
Considering at least one of them doesn't show their face online (or do I have that wrong) I am a bit surprised location is the first concern they have about an offline collaboration…
They both don't show their faces online, one of them is a multiboobed anthrocow and the other is an oni, and I assume the plan for them to meet has been vetted by Yay and May :)
"It was right after he blew his hand off with a firecracker. That wasn't a good year for him, really."
Poor Clinton lol
in this thread: phone number discussions. many phone number discussions
Here we gooooooo
I don't know if US mobile phones are like UK ones, but our mobile phone "area codes" are non-geographic; they generally just tell you what carrier someone is using.
As discussed in previous comments, US mobile-phone numbers use the same area codes as landlines. They do use different exchanges (the second set of three numbers in the US 3-3-4 pattern of digits), but it's not like anyone pays attention to that. Also, because our phone numbers are portable between carriers (you can change carriers and keep the same number), the number doesn't say anything about what carrier someone is using.
I SAID TO LOOK AT THE AREA CODES YESTERDAY!
perhaps you've never noticed how often a line from the comments one day shows up in Jeph's captions the next ...
This fucking town...
*CACKLES* ITS TIME
I’m going to enjoy it when they discover there is only one degree of separation between them.
Y'all goin' on about area codes, both of them are so afraid of phones they prolly don't even remember what an area code is other than "the first part of the phone number"
Marigold strikes me as the type of person who doesn't know what her area code is, meanwhile Aurelia probably just didnt look.
We know they are going to meet up at Coffee of Doom!!
OK, they've worked out they live in the same town. Now one of them needs to turn around and see the other in the window of the building across the street.
I think we can't, sadly. Marigold lives in an apartment building, and thanks to Aurelia's initial Yay encounter, we know it's all single family houses across the street from her.
Cell phones having geographic area codes is so confusing to those of us from countries where all mobile phone numbers are drawn from a separate pool of numbers from all geographic numbers.
That works unless you move and keep your cell number. I've had the same number for 21 years and I've moved out of the area the number is from.
(Grover voice intensifies)
Omg they're in Williamstown aren't they...
Westfield. ;)
My area code is Maryland i live ... Not in Maryland
A) area codes don’t mean anything anymore other than that’s where you got your cell originally, but more importantly B) Marigold is clueing in!!!
Area codes don't apply to mobile phones really
They mean even less in college towns.
Ask if they Know a Martin Reed. Cause EVERYONE knows of Martin in this town…
What do they mean by 'offline collaboration'?
Dealing with other people as actual real-life people instead of electronic fictions.
Yes, check the area code so that you know where the other person lived in 2005
LMAO, poor Clinton
I can not wait until Clinton & Elliot heads up to Station (Hanners’s dad needs Clinton’s expertise with robots; Elliot has a sister on Station named Georgette) and Clinton has to face his fear of flight on the space flight to Station.
Poor Clinton, getting owned in a comic he's not even in.
It's 2022, I know very few people with cell phones that have bothered to get new numbers were ever they go. I got a cell phone to always _have_ a 'local' number before 'long distance' was no longer a 'thing'. I can also go out right now and get a 'burner' number anywhere. Area codes are so early '90s. 🤣
"Check your area codes". TOLD YA!!
Uh, Zak. Think for a second. They know each other's phone numbers. They know what State that is and what part of the State. That means they know they're within at most a couple hours' drive in bad traffic. "I don't know about tiny State people" but you should be smart enough to realize that a small State is small.
Honestly, w/ cell phones; area codes are more of a suggestion really.
oh theyre stupid!!!
I hate to think what Mommymilkers has let slip about her kids on stream.
Claire guested as Bovinia Delavache and said a LOT about Clinton...
Oh, this is gonna be FUN! :)
I have a Texas area code. Haven't lived there since 2005
I plan on keeping my Alaska area code when we move.
I thought about the area code thing yesterday, but then I thought if they were calling through Google Phone numbers (is that still a thing?), the area code wouldn't tell them anything.
Or a whole host of other reasons, like moving, or getting a phone on someone else's plan so have their area code..
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I’m having a very hard time differentiating between Claire and Aurelia in terms of their appearance. Obviously the context makes it clear but it’s still confusing.
Claire has a tiny nose ring.
Yah, who called who? Shirley doesn't have one area code for everywhere, likes Jenny does, right?
What was Jenny's area code? All I remember are the last 7 digits: 867-5309 Operator, now would you help me place this call? She's living in LA, with my best old ex-friend Ray.
The gleeful look on Aurelia’s face is something I didn’t know I needed tonight.
Please let that knowledge come back around in meatspace
😍 It's happening!!
A call between streamers that isn't taking place over Discord? Truly the most fantastical thing about the comic thus far
Honestly, that (admittedly small) time lag in Discord drives me crazy.
I've had the same cell number since 2003, area codes mean nothing
Yeah, seriously. "Where you lived in 2005." https://xkcd.com/1129/
Maybe one of them isn't from the area and is using their cell phone from wherever they were at before?
Old holdover from our plain ordinary telephone system (POTS) - we had area codes for each area that you came from, so "local" calls could use fewer digits to dial. We actually had to use our international code to call people outside of our local area (and it cost more). Cell phones would take the area code of wherever you lived at the time you got your cell phone, but porting those numbers across the US happened pretty quickly once cells became more popular. For instance, my cell phone uses the area code that I went to college at, since that's where I bought it at.
The dawn of enlightenment in Marigold's face. Love it.
ahh knew that was comin!! called it lol
Amusing
Gotta remember to make popcorn for when the next comic drops