smack; bandwidth; nomophobia

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 30 22:28:03 UTC 2012


On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Nomophobia: Fear of Being Without a Smart Phone."

What's the connection? Ir is just another of those "Carborundum"
things, with no connection to knowledge of the classics, a pswaydoword
that's supposed by the polloi to be intrinsically funny?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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