On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:30:52AM +0000, gordon b slater wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:42 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > > Could the comment actually have been about pay telephones, which were > > once common in cities? > > > > Good point Bill, which, if so, would place the comment at or about the > start of the cellfone introduction. > > @Jim, maybe it's more a telco/2600 thing?
found it, actually was once in my .signature: "The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used communications technology in the days before electronic mail. They're still easy to find in most large cities." -- Nathaniel Borenstein i'm guessing this is before the mobile phone explosion. -- Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org +92 336 520-4504 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"