Everybody’s on the Phone

Jimmy BuffettTake the Weather With You
Mailboat Records / RCA Nashville — Released:
Written by Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth, Will Kimbrough & Peter Mayer — Track 4, 4:27

“Everybody’s on the phone, so connected and all alone…”

Bootstrap 5 added — .container replaces max-width + margin: auto, p-3 p-md-4 replaces @media padding overrides, and .display-5 scales heading size automatically via Bootstrap’s built-in rfs (responsive font size). Compare this source to the media-queries version.

Song Lyrics

Verse 1

Message in a bottle
Rhythm of a drum
Smoke signals and telegraphs
Make the airwaves hum
But that’s all ancient history
Like bongs and Lincoln Logs
Now we livin’ like the Jetsons
In a wacky wireless fog

Talkin’, squawkin’, hawkin’
Who knows if anybody’s gettin’ through

Verse 2

Toasters talk to CrackBerries
Boston to Bombay
Teenage schemes and MaBell dreams
As minutes tick away
We act like crazy people
Talking to ourselves
Crashing cars in conversation
Still that stuff flies off the shelf

The information superhighways
Crawled up like an L.A. traffic jam

Chorus

Everybody’s on the phone
So connected and all alone
From the pizza boy to socialite
We all salute the satellite
Won’t you text me with your master plan?
You’re loud and clear but I don’t understand
I’m a digital explorer in analog roam
And everybody’s on the phone

Verse 3

Do you remember dialing up?
Yes, I remember well
Now I just can’t go anywhere
Without my sacred cell
I think that I might die
If I miss anything at all
Text me, send me an e-mail
Ring me up, give me a call
I’m ADD on AOL and tryin’ to read
The writing on the wall

Chorus (Repeat)

Everybody’s on the phone
So connected and all alone
From the pizza boy to socialite
We all salute the satellite
Won’t you text me with your master plan?
You’re loud and clear but I don’t understand
I’m a digital explorer in analog roam
And everybody’s on the phone

Bridge

Now I’m a real jungle jump up, I’m a megahertz man
I swing from tree to tree on the very latest plan
On the download and the dropouts
On every major city across the land
I got Bob Marley on my ring tone
Get up, stand up, reach out
Touch somebody man

Chorus (Final)

Everybody’s on the phone
So connected and all alone
From the pizza boy to socialite
We all salute the satellite
Won’t you text me with your master plan?
You’re loud and clear but I don’t understand
And I’m a digital explorer in analog roam
And everybody’s on the phone
And I’m a digital explorer in an analog roam
And everybody’s on the phone

“Everybody’s on the Phone” — words and music by Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth, Will Kimbrough, and Peter Mayer. © 2006 Mailboat Records / RCA Nashville. Lyrics displayed here for educational, non-commercial classroom use.

What Changed: Media Queries → Bootstrap 5

Open this page’s source and compare the <style> block to the media-queries version:

VersionCustom CSS rules@media blocks
eopCSSAndMediaQueries.html~65 rules2 blocks, 12 overrides
This page~20 rules0 blocks

Bootstrap’s utilities replaced the manual @media work:

Custom CSS + @media (was)Bootstrap class (now)
max-width: 780px; margin: auto; padding: 0 1.5rem + @media adjustment.container
h1 { font-size: 2.5rem } + 2 @media overrides.display-5 — rfs scales it automatically
article { padding: 2rem 2.5rem } + 2 @media overrides.p-3 .p-md-4 .p-xl-5
border-radius: 14px; box-shadow: ....rounded-4 .shadow-sm
Entire custom breadcrumb CSS (~15 rules)Bootstrap .breadcrumb component

What Bootstrap could not replace (still in the custom <style> block):

The curriculum sequence:

  1. Structure without styling — done
  2. CSS for aesthetics — done
  3. CSS media queries — done
  4. This page — Bootstrap 5. Goal reached.

Return to the EOP cover page to see all four stages side by side.