The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency cell phones represent the 20th Centurys escalation of imaginary need. We didnt need cell phones until we had them. Clearly cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy but the atrophy of basic skills.
TELESCOPE n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
It is nothing less than fantastic the way mathematical odds add up. For instance take the possibility of making a mistake in making a telephone call. Most local exchanges require seven digits which is accomplished in four or five seconds. The phone has ten digits on it. The mathematical formula of possibilities is ten to the seventh power which is 10000000 or it is 9999999 to 1 that you would enter a wrong number if you didnt know what you were doing. Add the four digits to get a long distance number and it becomes 100000000000. Mortality which fortunately lasts for most of us many times that four or five seconds that it takes to place a telephone call is also full of chances to make mistakes. Fortunately too the path through mortality is well marked and we can with exercising care get to where we all desire to be at the end of mortality.
Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency cell phones represent the 20th Centurys escalation of imaginary need. We didnt need cell phones until we had them. Clearly cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy but the atrophy of basic skills.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Well if this is the wrong number why did you answer it?
TELESCOPE n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
On the telephone: Thats an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them?
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
It is nothing less than fantastic the way mathematical odds add up. For instance take the possibility of making a mistake in making a telephone call. Most local exchanges require seven digits which is accomplished in four or five seconds. The phone has ten digits on it. The mathematical formula of possibilities is ten to the seventh power which is 10000000 or it is 9999999 to 1 that you would enter a wrong number if you didnt know what you were doing. Add the four digits to get a long distance number and it becomes 100000000000. Mortality which fortunately lasts for most of us many times that four or five seconds that it takes to place a telephone call is also full of chances to make mistakes. Fortunately too the path through mortality is well marked and we can with exercising care get to where we all desire to be at the end of mortality.