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   Message 49,979 of 51,410   
   Bill Gill to Moe Trin   
   Re: The meaning of fuzzy dice   
   07 Apr 16 08:24:54   
   
   From: billnews2@cox.net   
      
   On 3/29/2016 3:54 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   >> coin phones,   
   > trying to remember the last time I saw one...   no luck.  But how much   
   > of that is due to increasing costs of a phone call, and the fact that   
   > "EVERYONE" has a portable phone of some kind and that many people empty   
   > the coins out of pockets/purse and don't normally carry any to feed a   
   > phone if one were available?  (Quit smoking about 20 years ago, so the   
   > driver's ash-tray in the car has a couple of $ of coin stashed there, but   
   > that's more for parking meters the city uses as an income source.)   
   >   
   Here in Tulsa there are still phone 'booths'.  I see one at   
   the apartment complex around the corner and one on the edge of a parking   
   lot up the street.  I haven't checked whether they take coins.   
      
   Bill   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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