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Do you still have a land-line telephone?

Posted - September 12, 2020

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  • 52905

     

      Yes. 


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      September 12, 2020 8:29 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    Oh, that's right. I just remembered I have your number.
      September 12, 2020 8:33 AM MDT
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  • 52905

     

      Hey, wait . . .


    *Randy D frantically searches through his landline phone’s menu for the BLOCK feature.

      September 12, 2020 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 32529
    At home we have an internet phone.

    We have a landline at work that we do not use. But it was bundled in with our internet service. It would cost more for just internet than it does for both.
      September 12, 2020 8:41 AM MDT
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  • 13251
    Yes, we have a land-line landline through our Internet provider with a phone connected.
      September 12, 2020 8:53 AM MDT
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  • 10037
    Why did you capitalize 'internet'? 
      September 12, 2020 4:25 PM MDT
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  • 13251
    It's a throwback to my days as a newspaper editor. We used the Associated Press Style Manual, which dictated that it be capitalized. Several years of experience in that job make it impossible for me to ever quit grammar policing; I once did it for a living!
      September 12, 2020 4:47 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    I think it's something to remember a time when internet was capitalized. I'm glad I do. 

    I once worked for a newspaper, too. I enjoyed it. 
      September 12, 2020 4:50 PM MDT
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  • 13251
    I was a high school and college sportswriter for a while, and I covered a football game in 1995 between Ivy League rivals Columbia and U of Pennsylvania at Wien Stadium at Baker Field, Columbia's home field. It sits at West 218th Street and Broadway, which is Manhattan's northern tip - the stadium affords striking views of the Bronx as well as the Spuyten Duyvil, a Dutch name meaning Spouting Devil for the rushing waters at the confluence of the Harlem and Hudson Rivers.

    Penn was dominant in the league at that time and came into the game with a 24-game winning streak, meaning the Quakers hadn't lost a game in more than two years. Columbia, on the other hand, is and has always been famous for having a crappy football team, even by the low standards of the Ivy League.

    In 1995, however, the Lions roared on their way to an 8-2 record and an extremely rare winning season. So, lo and behold, Columbia rose up and beat Penn that day, and the small crowd went crazy.

    In one of my finest moments in a brief sportswriting career, I penned the best story lede I ever created:

    "Manhattan ends at Columbia's Wien Stadium at Baker Field, and so did Pennsylvania's 24-game winning streak."

    I was working for Newsday, a tabloid like the Daily News and the Post, but I was sitting next to the guy writing for the New York Times. I showed it to him and asked what he thought. He replied, "That's a good one. I wish I had thought of it."
      September 12, 2020 5:18 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    Very nice! 

    Do you still write professionally on occasion? 
      September 12, 2020 5:43 PM MDT
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  • 13251
    Once or twice a year, college hockey games are played at Madison Square Garden, and I cover them for US College Hockey Online. Cornell vs. Boston University last year and Cornell-Harvard in 2018. That's a bitter old rivalry that was depicted in "Love Story," if you remember the film from c. 1971.
      September 12, 2020 5:50 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    Nice! 

    I don't think I saw that film until I caught it on cable in the late 90s or early 00s maybe? I was pretty surprised that my mom didn't tell me about it when I was a teenager! 

    I should probably watch it again soon and check my feelings-gauge. See how all that's doing. It's been a while. 
      September 12, 2020 5:56 PM MDT
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  • 13251
    Let me know if you do. I will give you the link to the pregame feature I wrote, for which I interviewed Joe Bertagna. He was a freshman at Harvard and played goalie for the Crimson when the film was made. He talked my ear off about his experience being involved in the filming of the hockey sequences, one of which featured an apocryphal game between Cornell and Harvard.

    https://www.uscho.com/2018/11/23/uscho-com-game-of-the-week-cornell-harvard-play-new-york-city-for-first-time-in-more-than-100-years/
      September 12, 2020 7:17 PM MDT
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  • 52905
      September 12, 2020 6:14 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    'Why are you winking at that? I have feelings. Well, I used to. 
      September 12, 2020 6:27 PM MDT
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  • 52905

     

      Because I agree with what you wrote. I don’t capitalize the word “internet”, and it took several severe beatings of my AutoInCorrect over weeks and months to teach it to stop telling me that I should. 

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      September 12, 2020 6:30 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    Thanks for mansplaining MaryJane-splaining that to me. 
      September 12, 2020 6:41 PM MDT
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  • 17364
    Are you sure it's a copper landline? Internet providers generally only offer VOIP.
      September 13, 2020 6:02 AM MDT
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  • 9778
    Yes. I reserve it for use by telemarketers and scammers. 
      September 12, 2020 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 52905

     

      *Randy D: “I’ve been dialing this number for several months now, no, for over a year, and not once has Jane answered! I can’t even leave a message because the system says the voicemail is full.  I’m sure it’s the right number, so what gives?  This is frustrating, grrrrrrrrr.  Oh, well, I guess I’ll just have to try again today . . . ”



     

      September 12, 2020 9:16 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    yeah, but it is disconnected.
    I only use cell phone.
      September 12, 2020 9:27 AM MDT
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  • 19942
    Yes, I do.
      September 12, 2020 10:03 AM MDT
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  • 17364
    Yes.  It's what I talk on all the time.  My mobile is my answer to not having coin phones.  It stays turned off in my purse.  When I'm out and need to make a call, I turn it on.
      September 12, 2020 11:02 AM MDT
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  • 13251
    Isn't it redundant to have both?
      September 12, 2020 4:48 PM MDT
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