Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

[Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net>]

gordon b slater wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:00 -0500, Jim Mercer wrote:
> > for days now, i've been trying to remember a quotation, which i vaguely seem
> > "the telephone, once commonly available in cities, ...."
> > ring a bell for anyone?
> Maybe it was a Gopher thing?
>
> This newfangled Googly-thing finds nothing - it'll never catch on.

(rant, sorry)

Ever noticed how a call to a cellphone in the next town sounds 
consistently horrible, yet a landline call to "farawayistan" sounds like 
it's coming from next door? Damn 3kbps vocoders...

Regards,
Jeroen (who still makes frequent landline-2-landline calls to 
"farawayistan" and is not yet an old fart(?))