Re: CHAT: postcodes

--- Tristan <kesuari@...> wrote:
> Why is it that Americans (and non-English speakers
> who've learnt American
> English) call mobile phones 'cell phones'? What's
> the 'cell' in question?
From "cellular" phone. The things only work if there
are cells that transmit signals in the channels or
frequencies these phones operate at. If you're phone
plan is cheap and has a limited network of cells, your
phone goes dead once it's out of range of the nearest
cell tower. One local dead spot has been Rock Creek
Park in the District (Washington) - as the Park
Service has been reluctant to allow the installation
of towers on Parklands.

It's a good thing, in my opinion. I don't want to
enjoy a park while having to endure some idiot's
overloud (but one sided) conversation about how Judith
should just get the nosejob so Bob will quit
complaining; though it might not be a bad idea for Bob
to just shut his ugly trap, cos his teeth are all
crooked; which reminds me, I'll be late cos I've got
to stop and get some toothpaste and stuff - you need
anything? [pause] OK, what kind of tampons is that?
[pause] OK, maxipads, too. See you around 7. Yeck!

> Also, would someone do the honor of explaining
> John's .sig to me?
Looks like a spoof of the Desiderata. Sort of.

> Which, as always brings me to a tangent. Talking to
> my friends, who know more
> about these things than I do... in the US, it's a
> crime for someone under age
> to be in possession of alcohol *at all*, isn't it?
Yes. And since it's WAR, I guess they'd be POWs... ;)

> > Be yourself.  Especially do not feign a working
> > knowledge of RDF where
> > no such knowledge exists.  Neither be cynical
> > about RELAX NG; for in
> > the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the
> > world of markup,
> > James Clark is as perennial as the grass.
> > --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath
Padraic.


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il becko Jowans backalars
so ncorne tan llar'ment ys wentast;
yen dia s' ouws desfussiont
coyn ncorn so phaoerin ys cabast.

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