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From: dragonlady60@q.com
"Mac Breck" wrote in message
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> Dragon Lady wrote:
>> "trag" wrote in message
>>
> news:3e3910a1-a382-4ee1-91d4-6c6b46ef37b6@v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Oct 28, 1:38 pm, "Mac Breck" wrote:
>>>> David Johnston wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:13:55 -0400, "Mac Breck"
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Tom wrote:
>>>>>>> On Oct 28, 9:26 am, "Mac Breck" wrote:
>>>>>>>> In your opinion, which are the three WORST Star Trek (TOS)
>>>>>>>> episodes?
>>>>
>>>>>>>> My three are:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Turnabout Intruder
>>>>>>>> The Way to Eden
>>>>>>>> (Picking a third one was tough, because there were so many
>>>>>>>> cheesey/campy episodes.)
>>>>>>>> The Paradise Syndrome
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also, it's amazing how many TOS episodes were similar, e.g. "The
>>>>>>>> Paradise Syndrome" and "For the World Is Hollow and I Have
>>>>>>>> Touched the Sky." Trek copying itself started waaaay back.
>>>>
>>>>>>> Wow, no mention of "Spock's Brain"...
>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm shocked.
>>>>
>>>>>> "The Way to Eden" is unbearable, ....1000 times worse than
>>>>>> "Spock's Brain."
>>>>
>>>>> Spock's Brain is a little bit funny.
>>>>
>>>> True, plus it gave McCoy a good line, e.g. "His brain is gone."
>>>> which I have as a ringtone on my cellphone (assigned to some real
>>>> idiots in my phonebook). Similarly, I have one from B5 (Computer
>>>> Voice: "Non-human lifeform detected.") assigned to someone who
>>>> richly deserves it.
>>>>
>>>> Hey, you've got to find humor whereever you can.
>>>
>>> Heh. That's almost good enough to convince me to buy a cell phone so
>>> I can imitate it. But it's not quite worth the monthly cost just
>>> for another opportunity to be snarky... :-) Plus I still enjoy the
>>> look on folks' faces when I tell them I don't have a cell phone.
>>>
>> Yeah, that's probably the same look I get when I ask why I would want
>> a camera in my phone.
>>
>> I've also never understood the attaction of texting.
>
> Same here! In fact, I have texting blocked on my phone because I'd
> never intended on doing any texting and had begun to receive unsolicited
> spam text messages, which I had to pay for because I was not on a
> texting plan.
I haven't had to do that so far. The only text message I ever got was from,
of all people, my ISP. I did *not* get charged for it, and it's a darn good
thing I didn't. They would have cause holy hell for charging me for an
unsolicited text message sent to a customer who didn't have a texting plan.
I suspect it's purpose was supposed to be to try to convine me to get one.
>
>> Why would you
>> bother to type out a message when you can dial and speak to the
>> person?
>
> If you want the person to be able to get the message without having to
> speak into the phone? Still, most people have annoying alert sounds
> assigned to incoming text messages, and loud beep sounds for their
> keystrokes. It gets damned annoying on long car trips when passengers
> get into a texting frenzy, and I often find that I wish the car had
> ICBM-like launch tubes for those seats (Grrrr!). Same goes for people
> who talk on the phone constantly in the car. Don't they realize that
> nobody else wants to hear all that crap?
*snort* Frankly, talking is a lot less effort than texting. As far as I
can tell, the purpose of texting is so kids can pass messages around at
school without the teachers knowing. And they wonder why schools ban cell
phones....
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