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   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:36:11 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:   
      
   > (The lastest Android app to make the news is the game in which the goal   
   > is to throw your phone as high up in the air as you can, and -   
   > if it survives being caught - it will post the results on some score   
   > board somewhere. IIRC, it was successful enough that Google had to ban   
   > it from the app store.)   
      
   The competition is to see who is the most gullible? This sounds like the   
   sort of game that would be popular after drinking too much.  Of course,   
   given what alcohol does to one's reflexes, the likely result would be to   
   fail to catch the phone, and to have to go buy a replacement.   
      
   --   
   John F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com   
   "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot   
   drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   
      
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