Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon

[Dan Goncharoff]

The reader doesn't normally select the color of text on a webpage, the
owner of the page does.

And who said we were talking about a book??
DanG


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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