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    James R Twine
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    ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


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      ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


      If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
      Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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      brianwelsch
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      I used to do some of the following: * turn down ring volume/turn off phone * hide the phone * pleasantly answer the phone and immediately hang up and turn it off * leave a post-it note apologizing for not being able to play receptionist anymore, that I had work to do. BW


      If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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        ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


        If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
        Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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        Red Stateler
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        My phone is a nice quiet sound of crickets chirping. It's quite pleasant and could only offer a fanciful retreat from humdrum office work.

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          ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


          If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
          Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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          Dan Neely
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          Alice from Dilbert regarding a missing cellphone "Was it small, annoying, and flushable".

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            ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


            If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
            Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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            Joe Woodbury
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            I just plain hate cell phones. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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              ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


              If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
              Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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              Jared Parsons
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              It took a lot of frustration but now I just walk into their office and shut the phone off for them. You'd be suprised at how effectively that teaches them to take their phone with them or shut the thing off Jared Parsons jaredp@beanseed.org http://jaredparsons.blogspot.com/[^]

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                ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


                If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
                Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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                Chris Losinger
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                we just clap along with whatever song the orphaned phone is playing. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

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                  we just clap along with whatever song the orphaned phone is playing. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

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                  David Wulff
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                  It's a chance for the whole office to play "guess that song". :-D


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                    ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


                    If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
                    Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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                    Alvaro Mendez
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                    James R. Twine wrote:

                    ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks! Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it!

                    I agree. A cell phone is meant to be carried by the owner at all times. Leaving it abandoned (where it can disturb other people) is grounds for imminent obliteration or evaporation. :-) In my previous job, we would hide the phone inside one of the guy's desk's drawer. Then we'd get some amusement out of watching him anxiously look for it. Alvaro


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                      James R. Twine wrote:

                      ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks! Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it!

                      I agree. A cell phone is meant to be carried by the owner at all times. Leaving it abandoned (where it can disturb other people) is grounds for imminent obliteration or evaporation. :-) In my previous job, we would hide the phone inside one of the guy's desk's drawer. Then we'd get some amusement out of watching him anxiously look for it. Alvaro


                      Don't make me come down there. - God

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                      surely there's nothing wrong with removing the sim card and cutting it up into little pieces? .: secretGeek.net -- dot Nuts about dot Net :. -- modified at 18:47 Monday 13th February, 2006

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                        ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


                        If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
                        Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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                        Matt Newman
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                        I have a roomate that leaves his cell phone out in the kitchen all the time. You can hear the ringtone anywhere in the apartment and I suspect in neighboring apartments as well. But even better is if someone leaves him a message the "message alert beep" is louder than the ringtone... Just in case you didn't hear the phone. To top all that off he is a heavy sleeper. Matt Newman
                        Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots

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                          ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


                          If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
                          Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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                          Super Lloyd
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                          Plenty of great ideas in this thread! :-D

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                            ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks!  Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it! :mad:    Not everyone likes the single-note MIDI version of Video Killed the Radio Star as much as you do! :wtf:   I think it is going to become Jamie Killed the Damn Cellphone in a little while... :-O    Peace! -=- James


                            If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong!
                            Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road!
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                            Roger Wright
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                            To paraphrase a long-past political campaign slogan from the PRC, "If it rings, flush it." Alternatively, you could set it to forward calls to someplace expensive to call. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                              I just plain hate cell phones. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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                              you know, were are in the XXIth century now :cool: 64 bits microprocessos and plasma screen also exist ! :-> ... and Microsoft Vista is about to be released :~


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                                James R. Twine wrote:

                                ...Coworkers that do not take their cell phones with them when they get up from their desks! Nothing worse than hearing someone else's strange ringtones (on the "increasing ring" setting) - except when no one is around to answer it!

                                I agree. A cell phone is meant to be carried by the owner at all times. Leaving it abandoned (where it can disturb other people) is grounds for imminent obliteration or evaporation. :-) In my previous job, we would hide the phone inside one of the guy's desk's drawer. Then we'd get some amusement out of watching him anxiously look for it. Alvaro


                                Don't make me come down there. - God

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                                Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                Alvaro Mendez wrote:

                                I agree. A cell phone is meant to be carried by the owner at all times. Leaving it abandoned (where it can disturb other people) is grounds for imminent obliteration or evaporation.

                                When I was at Sonardyne one guy (named Paul Newman, no less!) did this all the time. One day one of my co-workers got sufficiently fed up to hide it above one of the ceiling tiles in the office. They then rang it - briefly - while he was at the other side of the office. It took him nearly an hour to figure out where it was! :laugh: After watching that, I usually carry my phone on my belt, switched to "vibrate only". ;) Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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