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Date: 06 Jul 2007 21:59:00
From: Brian
Subject: Roadside finds
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Who(m) here has found a cellphone by the roadside? How l337? Did you get
the phone back to its owner?
B.
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Date: 09 Jul 2007 15:36:50
From: max
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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In article <138u7ch3itq7o80@corp.supernews.com >,
"Brian" <brianarc@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Who(m) here has found a cellphone by the roadside? How l337? Did you get
> the phone back to its owner?
>
> B.
Found one in batavia. Not
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Date: 08 Jul 2007 19:26:56
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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In article <46919917$0$14141$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net >,
jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org writes:
> Brian Arc writes:
>
>> Who(m) here has found a cell phone by the roadside? How l337? Did
>> you get the phone back to its owner?
>
> "For who the bell tolls."
My compliments to your delightful artistry.
cheers, & the law is a ass! A Idiot!
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
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Date: 09 Jul 2007 02:10:31
From:
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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Brian Arc writes:
> Who(m) here has found a cell phone by the roadside? How l337? Did
> you get the phone back to its owner?
"For who the bell tolls."
Yes I found a phone and it was open and on. The nearest Cingular
office called the owner and sent the phone to him by mail.
Jobst Brandt
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Date: 09 Jul 2007 20:52:20
From: John Thompson
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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On 2007-07-09, jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org <jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org > wrote:
> Brian Arc writes:
>
>> Who(m) here has found a cell phone by the roadside? How l337? Did
>> you get the phone back to its owner?
>
> "For who the bell tolls."
>
> Yes I found a phone and it was open and on. The nearest Cingular
> office called the owner and sent the phone to him by mail.
I've found several, but all of them had been repeatedly run over by the
time I found them.
--
John (john@os2.dhs.org)
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Date: 08 Jul 2007 18:21:33
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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In article <1183942583.397008.240830@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com >,
Veloise <galena3066@mypacks.net > writes:
> Tom helpfully explained "I337."
> ...
>> So, "I337" == "LEET" == "elite" == the "Informed
>> Class" == those jokers walking around with
>> Blackberries and Bluetooth thingies, and cell
>> phones cemented onto their ears, as members of
>> the AT&T Zombie Army.
>
> So is the OP asking how fancy the lost & found product was, and by
> extension if it was worth trying to keep?
>
> TYVM
Maybe he's asking how notable it is that
it was lost at all. What's 733t today
is cheap junk tomorrow, when it becomes
outclassed by more 733t junk. Gotta have
it today; gotta get rid of it tomorrow
to make way for the next junk.
"Come tomorrow,
will I be older?
Come tomorrow,
maybe a soldier?
Come tomorrow,
will I be bolder
than today ..."
<http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Rolling%20Stones%20Lyrics/2000%20MAN%20Lyrics.html >
"I'm a 2000 man,
and my kids, they just don't understand me at all ..."
cheers, & everyone's gone to the moon,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
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Date: 08 Jul 2007 17:56:23
From: Veloise
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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Tom helpfully explained "I337."
...
> So, "I337" == "LEET" == "elite" == the "Informed
> Class" == those jokers walking around with
> Blackberries and Bluetooth thingies, and cell
> phones cemented onto their ears, as members of
> the AT&T Zombie Army.
So is the OP asking how fancy the lost & found product was, and by
extension if it was worth trying to keep?
TYVM
--Karen D.
HAND!
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Date: 08 Jul 2007 00:16:53
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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In article <1183865841.451893.117990@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com >,
Veloise <galena3066@mypacks.net > writes:
> Brian wrote:
>> Who(m) here has found a cellphone by the roadside? How l337? Did you get
>> the phone back to its owner?
>
>
> What means this "I337"?
It's just a meta-colloquialism; a manner
of using text graphically. The textual
characters are supposed to resemble "LEET",
which in turn represents the word/concept:
"elite".
It's a perversion of language. Some might
consider it artistic, while others get
uptight about it.
Anyways, "I[L]337", when looked-at graphically,
is supposed to appear as "leet" (elite,) which
in this case means: "can afford, and desires to
possess a bunch of technological gadgets."
So, "I337" == "LEET" == "elite" == the "Informed
Class" == those jokers walking around with
Blackberries and Bluetooth thingies, and cell
phones cemented onto their ears, as members of
the AT&T Zombie Army.
cheers, & 733t my @$$,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
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Date: 07 Jul 2007 20:37:21
From: Veloise
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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Brian wrote:
> Who(m) here has found a cellphone by the roadside? How l337? Did you get
> the phone back to its owner?
What means this "I337"?
When I find a phone I scroll through to see who's listed more than
once. "name home" and "name cell" is a likely prospect. Dial the
number, tell 'em I found the phone.
When my work phone went missing (fell out of my back) I tried calling
it several times. Finally someone rang me back. Turns out it was my
neighbor two doors down, who'd picked it up off my driveway. They had
deleted all my recent calls, but they did not make any. (I walked over
with an apple pie for them.)
HTH
--Karen D.
don't know what "22" means either
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Date: 07 Jul 2007 20:10:58
From: Ozark Bicycle
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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On Jul 7, 9:08 pm, Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman
<sunsetss0...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
> > On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:04:42 -0500, Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman wrote:
> >> "The flag should not be draped over the hood, top, sides, or back of a
> >> vehicle or of a railroad train or a boat. When the flag is displayed on
> >> a motorcar, the staff shall be fixed firmly to the chassis or clamped to
> >> the right fender." - Title 4, Section 7 (b), US Code.
>
> > Someone needs to send Sam Walton a copy of that.
>
> Lee Scott, I think. Sam Walton has been dead for 15 years.
>
"How could they tell?" - Dorothy Parker
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Date: 07 Jul 2007 07:05:30
From: Ozark Bicycle
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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On Jul 6, 11:59 pm, "Brian" <brian...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Who(m) here has found a cellphone by the roadside? How l337? Did you get
> the phone back to its owner?
>
> B.
I did, in early April. I determined which carrier was being used, and
called them. They directed me to a local storefront they operate, and,
after waiting in line, I handed the phone to a sales rep, letting them
know it was a roadside find belonging to one of their users.
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Date: 07 Jul 2007 19:41:03
From:
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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I found one near my home. It was password-locked, so I couldn't dial
out with it, but before the end of my ride, someone had called the
phone, I'd answered, said I found the phone on the road, and asked if
they could let the owner know the phone would be at my office, a couple
of miles from where I found it. A *very* happy teenager claimed it
later that day.
--
josh@phred.org is Joshua Putnam
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/ >
Updated Infrared Photography Gallery:
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/photo/ir.html >
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Date: 07 Jul 2007 13:35:35
From: landotter
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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On Jul 7, 7:56 am, Doug Smith W9WI <w...@invalid.nospam > wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:59:00 -0700, Brian wrote:
> > Who(m) here has found a cellphone by the roadside? How l337? Did you get
> > the phone back to its owner?
Found one near a pile of dog doo at the dog park. I dialed the entry
that said "home". The guy was practically quivering with joy when I
returned it. I hope he enjoyed the pictures I took of my dog pooping
with it.
>
> - USB thumb drive, run over by numerous cars but still working. Contained
> a backup of the website of a local dance studio. (making it easy to
> return)
>
> - Copy of Windows 98. Never opened, except by its impact with the road.
[stability joke placeholder]
>
> - Numerous American flags. With the plastic brackets that you stick on
> top of a window, then roll the window up to hold it in place. Kids roll
> the window down & the flag goes flying, not in a good way. And they yell
> at radical leftists for desecrating the flag?
Yeah, I found that disconcerting when we had the frothy nationalism a
while back and people were treating flags like crap. It's only a
symbol, I know I know--but my inner scout cringed.
If you find a small set of keys at Shelby Bottoms, lemme know. Once
house key with orange cover, the other a standard car key with black
plastic. They've managed to fully cordon off the bridge work site now,
btw, so no sneaky sneaky. Bring a hybrid at least to take the off road
shortcut around the construction. I manage it on 30mm tires just fine.
(I'm maxo from nash.gen, btw)
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Date: 08 Jul 2007 01:33:33
From: Mike Kruger
Subject: Re: Wasps
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Andrew Price wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:29:55 -0500, "Steven S" <loach_lover[remove spam
> tag]@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pretty much nothing you can do about it. I usually get stung once
>> or twice a season.
>
> That's about my average, too, depending on the weather.
>
>> Unlike bees, wasps/hornets are rather hostile and aggressive. When
>> I get stung it hurts for an instant. Then, I continue my ride. A
>> day later it turns red, swells up and itches. This lasts a few days
>> to a week
>
> I'm bothered for a week to ten days, although the first time I was
> stung several years ago, the swelling lasted nearly a month. Perhaps
> one develops a certain resistance to the venom
>
>> and I use stuff like cortisone on it.
>
> Does that help much (i.e. enough to spend the time consulting a
> medical practitioner to get a prescription)?
You can get cortisone ointment without a prescription, at any drug store.
--
Mike Kruger
In Puritan New England, Christmas wasn't even a legal holiday until 1856
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Date: 08 Jul 2007 19:17:44
From: Andrew Price
Subject: Re: Wasps
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On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:33:33 GMT, "Mike Kruger"
<MikeKr@mouse-potato.com > wrote:
>>> and I use stuff like cortisone on it.
>>
>> Does that help much (i.e. enough to spend the time consulting a
>> medical practitioner to get a prescription)?
>
>You can get cortisone ointment without a prescription, at any drug store.
Where you live, no doubt. But not everywhere.
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Date: 07 Jul 2007 05:48:27
From: John Kane
Subject: Re: Roadside finds
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On Jul 7, 12:59 am, "Brian" <brian...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Who(m) here has found a cellphone by the roadside? How l337? Did you get
> the phone back to its owner?
>
> B.
Set of keys was my main find for property that was identifiable. I
managed to identify the locksmith and we had the keys back to the
owner within 24 hours.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
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