Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon

[Dan Goncharoff]

But yellowpages.com is NOT yellow.
DanG


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 3/10/2012 10:13 AM, Ronald Butters wrote:
> >My phone rings all the time. It has a ring-tone.
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> And my Yellow Pages are yellow.
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> Joel
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> >On Mar 10, 2012, at 3:20 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
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> > > 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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