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- PHONE WORDS
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- B. J. Fontenot
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- Dear Softy,
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- We realize that the makers of
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- LOADSTAR seldom see how your
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- publication changes the lives of its
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- readers, so here is a little story...
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- A bunch of us were sitting around
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- late Saturday night, quite content to
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- have found a creature feature in the
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- midst of all those horrid music video
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- programs that infest latenight cable
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- programming these days. Just as
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- Godzilla was about to lay waste to
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- still another skyline we got the
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- commercial.
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- It turned out that we had been
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- given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to
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- have a fine-crafted imported olive pit
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- extractor/press guaranteed to make
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- delicious olive oil to go with a
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- delicious health salad for only
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- $19.95! (VISA and MASTERCARD
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- accepted).
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- Since we had already ordered a
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- Wondermatic food processor that would
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- slice, dice, and julienne anything
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- softer than high carbon steel, and
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- since the offer was liable to expire
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- without advance notice, we almost
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- trampled one another trying to get to
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- the phone.
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- "OK, what was that number again?"
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- "1-800-GOLLY-JEEPERS"
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- "What is that in real numbers?"
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- "How should I know? I'm busy
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- looking for your charge card."
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- "Why don't you just look at the
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- little numbers on the telephone? " a
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- newcomer to our little group asked.
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- Pathetic wretch.... we tried not to
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- look too sorry for him. Didn't the
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- poor sap know it was the Computer Age?
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- "Quick! Break out LOADSTAR #27!" we
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- cried.
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- Soon we had PHONE WORDS from B. J.
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- Fontenot up and running. This program
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- converts the letters of a phone number
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- into numbers, and vice versa. All you
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- have to do is type in the phone number
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- you want converted and press RETURN.
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- Well, to make a long story short,
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- we got our olive pit extractor/press
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- a few months later. And a few months
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- after that, PHONE WORDS helped us
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- capitolize on a chance to own SLIM
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- WHITMAN: BIOGRAPH, a 25-volume
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- set of the works from a singer more
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- popular than the Beatles!
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- What more can we say, except "keep
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- up the good work!"
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- Sincerely yours.....
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