Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon

[Ronald Butters]

My phone rings all the time. It has a ring-tone.


On Mar 10, 2012, at 3:20 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> On 3/10/2012 2:07 AM, W Brewer wrote:
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>> Anachronyms.  My favorites are telephone expressions. Hang up your phone,
>> it is off the hook. Phone is ringing.  I dialed the wrong number. Address
>> book. Yellow pages.
>
> Add "busy signal", "dial tone" "on the line", "I'll ring your party".
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> Requiescas in pace o email           Two identifying characteristics
>                                        of System Administrators:
> Ex turpi causa non oritur actio      Infallibility, and the ability to
>                                        learn from their mistakes.
> ICBM Data:  http://g.co/maps/e5gmy        (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
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