smack; bandwidth; nomophobia

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Sep 30, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

no mo' phon-bia

is my guess

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

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