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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Day Brown  writes:   
      
   > Ya, but that's not Big Brother. Its Ma Bell.   
      
   Now Lenny, he was our inside man,   
   An R&D tech at Ma Bell.   
   He had access to codes and computer net links   
   And hints of new products as well.   
      
   And he told us, "They've made a new breakthrough   
   On a miniaturized personal phone.   
   The bandwidth's been squeezed and the lines megaplexed   
   Till we each could have one of our own.   
   And the unit's so small, it could fit in your ear   
   Or be surgically placed in your head."   
   Said I, "I'd remove it to go on vacation!"   
   "That would be illegal!" he said.   
                  -- Mike Agranoff, "The Ballad of Captain Crunch" (1988)   
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   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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