John Kuthe wrote:
> dsi1 > wrote:
> ...
>> Landlines should be called "smug phones" cause some folks using them
>> sure are. :-)
>
> I'll tell ya this! I can count the number of times my landline phone
> has been out in 50 years on ONE FINGER!!! And I never have to say "Can
> you hear me now" except when the person I'm taking to on the phone is
> on a bloody cell phone!

Land lines just plain work but they are wired to a spot and they care
about area codes.

Cell phone ___ words and ___ces of words and {pop} they add noises.
Often they randomly hang up for no apparent reason without so much as a
vibrate to point out to you that the screen pressed against your ear
suddenly displays "Call ended" in a way that your ear can't see. Are
there folks out there with ears that can see to be able to tell when
your call just got dropped or do folsk redial every few calls without
noticing? The things may as well be walkie talkies for the quality of
the sound on them. But what walkie talkie has a dailing range of most
of the civilized world and a local toll free range of most of the
continent?