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Mike Peterson Published: August 17, 2010 1 minute 3 comments

Do you suppose this is why the Rolling Stones released a singles version of "Honky Tonk Women" that didn't involve a car horn?

First time I heard the album version, it was playing on my car stereo at about 5 in the afternoon on the Cross Westchester Expressway. The album version is called "Country Honk" and that horn just about put this 20-year-old country boy into the median.

Come to think of it, that was the last Rolling Stones album I ever bought, but that was more about them jumping the shark than about them scaring the bejazus out of me my first time in city traffic. But whatever they were thinking, the singles version doesn't have the horn and they still appear to be wonderfully popular with people who are too old to know who Dave Matthews is and several who are not.

The last time I featured xkcd here, someone noted that simply posting the cartoon eliminates the mouseover gag, and I agree. Having seen the main joke, you should now go to the actual website and enjoy the secondary gag which, today, resolves a quibble I might have raised.

But before you go, one more observation: Years ago, we used to laugh at the dog whenever a doorbell rang on TV and she would run barking to the door. I think of her today whenever a cell phone rings on a TV show. Sweet revenge, Buttons.