Calling "across the lake" (which used to be the same area code but now is different and I can never remember the new code, either) requires dialling a "1" but not the area code. Or maybe the other way around. It's different from a normal long distance call in some way, and I don't do it often enough to remember how.
Elliot: I thought I said discreet. Gwen: What, do you see nipple?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Feb 23, 2005 5:42:00 am PST #392 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Fred Pete - Feb 23, 2005 5:42:23 am PST #393 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
amych, I read: Happy Birthday, [alanty]. Unscrambling "alanty" is up to someone else.
juliana - Feb 23, 2005 5:43:07 am PST #394 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Has anyone ever had a party line?
Yup. Don't remember it very well, but yeah, we had one. This was back when our mailing address was still Star Route somethingorother, when we didn't have any neighbors except for the one golf course in "town" over a half-mile away. Damn, we were rural.
The area code for all of Alaska is 907, and will probably stay that way for a good while.
-t - Feb 23, 2005 5:45:04 am PST #395 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I was on a party line as a kid, but I was pretty young.
Earwormed, now. The Kinks, so it's okay.
tommyrot - Feb 23, 2005 5:46:20 am PST #396 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Has anyone ever had a party line?
We did when I was a kid. Once I left the phone off the hook when my parents were gone (the babysitter didn't notice) so a bunch of our neighbors could not use their phones for a few hours.
I think that was the same night I built a little paper boat, filled it with tissue, floated it in the sink and set it on fire.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 23, 2005 5:48:01 am PST #397 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Gronklies. Still trying to get caught up again (I'm 600+ behind in bitches and counting).
All in all, the move was one of the least traumatic. The annoyance of it taking so long (in terms of days) was more than offset by the lack of stress.
Still shaking things out in the new place. I feel weird there - my last move was studio apt. to studio apt., and prior to that had been dorms or roomate situations, so having more than enough space to myself for the first time in, like, 20 years is a little freaky.
Dana - Feb 23, 2005 5:53:09 am PST #398 of 10002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Lyra, when I had axle issues in my old car, they told me that it would make very noticeable noises before reaching the point where the car would be undriveable. Like, loud enough that there was no way to ignore or miss them. Caveat: I don't know enough about axles to know if you have the same issues I had.
-t - Feb 23, 2005 5:54:31 am PST #399 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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amych - Feb 23, 2005 5:55:44 am PST #400 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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tommyrot - Feb 23, 2005 5:57:46 am PST #401 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Lyra, when I had axle issues in my old car, they told me that it would make very noticeable noises before reaching the point where the car would be undriveable.
I think it might make a difference if the car is front or rear drive, and if it's the front or rear axle.
That's all I got. I had a rear-drive car that had rear axle noise but I got rid of the car before I had to deal with it.