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- From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
- Subject: Re: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary in TIME
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.095357.4556@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1993Jan23.004839.14708@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:53:57 GMT
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- donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
- >
- >Ten minutes later, the phone rang again. I had my 32 shot .44 magnum
- >ultra-mag assault pistol out and had drawn a bead on the phone, before
- >Gillian pushed my arms up and answered it. Fortunately, it was a
- >wrong number. But later in the night, Gillian's friend called.
- >
- >Anyone need spare phone parts??????
-
-
- Choose one:
- a: .44 reloads were 'squib' loads, no destructive power to speak of
- b: nothing recognizably "phone parts" remained
- c: phone was actually manufactured by "Western Electric", explaining
- near-indestructability
-
- I can't think of any other possible explanation
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- Peeve: any equipment made by, or labeled, "Northern Telecom"
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- !Peeve: "the Flip-Fone, the phone you can own" quite possibly the
- last _quality_ consumer telcom gear made by GTE
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- Bob "grew up in a PT&T family" O'Bob
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