On Dec 13, 1:44*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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> I think I could live without a phone. *Too many people die on
> the roads every day from yakking/texting/tweeting. *I happen to have a
> fifty pound cast iron farm bell at my rear deck, if I need my
> neighbor's attention I don't phone them, I ring my bell.
> I've been told people can hear this bell from five miles away:http://i42.tinypic.com/20ge3co.jpg

Ah, ye Sheldon! Man of the Mighty Bell!

Does your bell have an Internet connection? Like one to DONG you every
time you're mentioned or replied to on RFC?

;-)

John Kuthe...