Even a meeting of Montoni’s board of directors is more welcome than a continuation of Les’ Story. Wunderkind Darin, whose “I-Phone” app was a huge success (as the sight of the deserted restaurant will attest), apparently has another brilliant notion. In expressing his disapproval, Funky manages to disparage both Darin and Tony. He forgets that Tony’s worst idea probably was making a partner of Funky, whose reckless expansion plans and cost-cutting measures nearly sank the business that bears his name.
Tag: Tony
Kish Me
Lesser Whark sez: That’s an accurate rendition of a classic Space Invaders cabinet. However, why didn’t they sell it to a collector when they were hurting for cash? Even if it’s covered in 30 years of pizza stains, if it still works it’s worth refurbishing and selling.
Riff Chick
April 29, 2011 at 2:27 am
Durwood: “i-phone tech techno tech screen wireless mobilization pizza unit.”
Tony: “I’m old and technology used today is different from when I was young and used to what was around me.”
Riff Chick distills the essence of the past week’s arc (much more succinctly than the Funk-sposition in today’s panel 1). Poor, shellshocked Tony resignedly trudges his huge, tired culo to the basement, to take refuge in the only technology (besides the fax machine) to which he can relate.
A tip of the SoSF slouch hat to my mate Lesser Whark for his iOS expertise this past week!
Drag 'til You Drop
Lesser Whark sez: “The complexity of drag and drop is only justified if you might put the ingredients somewhere other than on the pizza. Montoni’s: the only pizzeria where you can order pepperoni in your soft drink.”
Sensing Tony’s technophobia, Darin proceeds to just flat-out just fucking with Tony’s head.
Lesser Whark again: “These two strips [Thursday’s and today’s] contradict each other. Does the app just direct people’s browsers to the Montoni’s website (a waste of an app, especially given their discussion on the 25th)? Or, does it replace the website, as described in the second strip?”
You Know He Knows Just Exactly What the Fax Is
Darin treats his new employers to a preview of Montoni’s mobile ordering site…using his laptop. Well, the laptop is “mobile” compared to that clunky old Pear Computer™ Bartlett II® on which he unveiled Montoni’s early website.
Beep Beep!
Funky and Tony look to be about the same age. Except Tony is supposed to be 20 years older than him. –Riff Chick
Could those glasses be any less masculine? It’s like Funky borrowed them from Dame Edna. –David O
I like Funky sporting those Al Davis Granny-Glasses chains again. –sourbelly
Oh yeah, those Funky glasses are just too much. Looks like he just got back from bingo. The guy ages in dog years. — Epicus Doomus
To me he looks at least twenty years older than Tony, who at least is standing up on his own. –Miskatonic Sophomore
Considering Funky’s usually being looking seventy-eighty-something lately, maybe this can be seen as an improvement. –John
Lesser Whark
April 21, 2011 at 5:52 am
Just how does he plan to ‘get’ that app written? Will he write it himself (lots of time), or contract it out (lots of money)?
Apparently, there’s a third option: pull it out of his ass. Darin unveils his (useless and totally unnecessary) mobile app for Montoni’s pizza. Tech-savvy though he may be, Darin has yet to learn that folks in Westview are a little touchy about distracted driving!
Epicus Doomus
April 21, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I just hope White Minivan Cell Phone Girl (if she survived, that is) doesn’t start fooling around with her pizza apps while driving and end up sending someone else hurtling through time.
(The whole time I was writing this post, I couldn’t get this song out of my head: “Goin’ Mobile”, the Who)
Son of Stuck Funky 
