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From Facebook friends, this cartoon by Nate Fakes:

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Grandma is a rotary dial phone; presumably mama is a touch-tone phone. Telephonic communications marches on.

Fakes draws the cartoons in Break of Day, which is syndicated by GoComics. A great many of his cartoons involve language play, as in these two recent strips:

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