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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1121.0. "Colour telephone" by AUSSIE::WHORLOW (Bushies do it for FREE!) Wed Nov 23 1994 13:30

    G'day,
    
     Have you heard of the new colour telephone available in Australia?
    
    Seems it is becoming quite popular. 
    
    
    
    green, Green:
    Green, green:
    Yellow...
    Blue!
    red
    black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black;
    pink!
    
    
    Many calls are like this:
    
    
    green, Green:
    Green, green:
    Yellow...
    purple,purple,purple,purple
    GREY!
    
    
    Are there any other new colour devices in your neck of the woods?
    
    derek
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1121.1JRDV04::DIAMONDsegmentation fault (california dumped)Wed Nov 23 1994 16:413
    I'm afraid I don't know how to interpret .0.  Are these jingles?
    
    -- Norman Diamond
1121.2BBRDGE::LOVELL� l'eau; c'est l'heureThu Nov 24 1994 00:0814
	Very good Derek

	I have a wireless spread spectrum device - lesser vocab.  Most
	calls are something like;

	green, Green:
	Green, green:
	YELLOW, yellow, YELLOW, yellow
	dark..............................................
	yellow, YELLOW
	dark .............................................

etc.
1121.3with actions...AUSSIE::WHORLOWBushies do it for FREE!Sat Nov 26 1994 21:3739
    G'day,
    
 <<< Note 1121.1 by JRDV04::DIAMOND "segmentation fault (california dumped)" >>>

    I'm afraid I don't know how to interpret .0.  Are these jingles?
    
    -- Norman Diamond
    
    
    Oh for the over the pond listeners.....
    
    for green, green  substitute greeeeen, greeeeeen
    
    
    ie 
    green, green = ring, ring
    Yellow = hello
    Blue (someone's name)
    red some response
    
    black,black.... idle chatter
    
    pink the sound of the receiver going back on the hook...
    
    
    should be done with the right hand with index and next two fingers
    curled, thumb and little finger extended to make like a phone. hang
    hand down. After some number of green, greens,during which it shakes
    gently, put hand to ear and away you go. put back down for the
    pink.....
    
    make sense, Norman? Give it a burl...
    
    
    Usually goes down well after a few bevvies...
    
    
    derek
    
1121.4JRDV04::DIAMONDsegmentation fault (california dumped)Sun Nov 27 1994 17:346
    OK.  .2 helped a bit, but I still didn't figure out those meanings
    for blue and red.
    
    Our phones go purple purple purple purple purple.
    
    -- Norman Diamond
1121.5NOVA::FISHERnow |a|n|a|l|o|g|Thu Jun 15 1995 09:116
    This note reminded me of one of Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine" lines:
    
    "Madam, we at the Telephone Company do not consider black to be
    colored!"
    
    ed
1121.6JRDV04::DIAMONDsegmentation fault (california dumped)Thu Jun 15 1995 23:103
    That's not politically correct any more.
    
    She now has to say that a telephone of color isn't a telephone of color.
1121.7Colour (sic) Radiowook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::leeWook like book with a WWed Sep 20 1995 23:517
Actually, I have a radio that does color:

Browwwwn, Browwwwn, pink, pink, black, black, black,...

At least on the AM dial.

Wook
1121.8AUSSIE::WHORLOWMy Cow is dead!Thu Sep 21 1995 16:2811
    G'day,
    
     Mr Wook... good to see you, to see you, good!
    
    
    color (like this note) is a pale imitation unless u are in it
    
    
    ;-)
    
    derek
1121.9The water was generally clear unless I'd been there.wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::leeI&#039;m sorry to hear about your Cow, Derek.Sun Sep 24 1995 23:2713
G'day, Derek.

Awww, ya makin' me blush....

If I be in it, best stay up wind o' me.

I remember a creek out behind my old elementary school that went "purple, 
purple, purple". Quite pleasant on a lazy summer afternoon. That was back 
during my "civil engineering" phase. I'm sure you are all aware that the 
fifth fundamental force in the universe (at least in the days before 
electro-weak and TOEs [TsOE?]) is the attraction between boys and mud.

Wook
1121.10AUSSIE::WHORLOWMy Cow is dead!Mon Sep 25 1995 15:4511
    G'day,
    
>If I be in it, best stay up wind o' me.
    
 If you're in it upto your chin,
    
    Don't make waves...
    
    
    
    dj