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Verizon charges you a quarter. Like an old time phone call!
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The first time I got an SMS voice message on my landline it was a female voice saying "Hi Dad, I'm going to be late - please can you come and pick me up". The confusion was that I did not have any daughters. So, I asked my son who had just arrived home and he said it was a text message that he had sent an hour ago, but had only just arrived.
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Great 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Why Yes, though since the phone performance at Xmas, she keeps it on during daylight...
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My mom writes weekly blogs, handle email like big guys, but has no smart phone and uses her old Nokia only outside...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Go figure. But hey, you gotta give her props for knowing what a blog is.
Jeremy Falcon
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When my dad first gave my Gran a mobile phone she phoned him off her landline a few days later to say she needed a new one because the battery had run out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Nice.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: She turns it off like it's a regular phone
I don't even know what that means. What "regular phone" has an off switch?
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You're being too literal in your interpretation. Think about it. Regular phones have the tendency to not always be available by virtue of them being stationary. So, when you call one the person may or may not be around to answer. Thus, cell phones were invented to avoid this. However, by turning off your cell, you essentially have the same net effect as the olden days.
Jeremy Falcon
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Never would've guessed this is what you meant.
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Yes. My mother has now a phone with long life accus (Samsung E1150) and I convinced her, that the phone is made for staying online.
Job done. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I don't carry mine around unless I know someone is going to call which is rare, so my kids are always asking me why I don't answer my phone. I'm retired not retarded! 
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Oh you old folks just don't understand joys of being constantly tethered to an electronic collar.
Jeremy Falcon
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I enjoy hiking deep into the woods where there is no coverage; no internet, no cell towers, you can't hear anything but the birds...but yeah it's an old foggy thing.
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Perhaps she thinks she continues to get charged as long as it's on.
Back in ancient times, long distance calls being charged by the minute was a big thing and people worried about how long they talked.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Turned off and ignored in her purse that dumbphone she has will go months between charges. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Moms and people who don't need to check facebook 20 times an hour turn their phones off so they can work uninterrupted. It turns out that they don't miss out much if you have to wait to share the latest cat picture off the internet. They keep a cat for that. They get their news curated at 6 pm, and it's still fresh, even though you heard about it at 13:46. They exchange long letters (perhaps by email), rather than 140-character tweets.
It's naive, as well as insensitive, to expect all people to take up the same technology you do and use it in the same way. That doesn't make them "moms".
You need to give your mom an actual reason to have their phone on. Baby pictures will usually do the trick, if you're motivated enough to help them adopt the technology. Baby pictures can turn even grandma into a technology adopter.
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"Being a Dung Beetle looks like S**t job", Quote from my Mum!  while a BBC nature prog was on featuring David Atenborough, while reading a book...
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Ah! That'll be that new-fangled, excremental TV that the BBC is so proud of then?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It'll probably lose me a lot of man points but I saw this[^] on Virtually Famous[^] this week and for all its kitsch it's one mighty amateur performance (the professional's a lot better than I thought too!) Respect!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Wherever that voice comes from (is it "live," or lip-synch ?), it's quite beautiful. Not my type of music, but, as someone who once really enjoyed singing ... before oral cancer cancelled my karaoke career ... I really can appreciate the technique.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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BillWoodruff wrote: is it "live," or lip-synch ?
It's live using a karaoke video set up to allow anyone to duet with Jessie J and post the results. There are a lot of far less successful 'collaborations' using the same video to be found on You Tube!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Your man card has been revoked hand it to the guy Sander had to give his Geek card too!
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Sander had to give his Geek card too!
Got it back for being an awesome programmer and for doing some Arduino stuff 
And I NEVER EVER EVER had my MAN card revoked! 
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