Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/10/2012 11:28 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>But yellowpages.com is NOT yellow.
>DanG

Dan, how do you know what color my screen text is set to?  Or for
that matter, the color of my electrons?  And is yellowpages.com a book?

Joel



>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.
> >
> > And my Yellow Pages are yellow.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > >On Mar 10, 2012, at 3:20 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 3/10/2012 2:07 AM, W Brewer wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> 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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