What's your best/worst joke? (3 Viewers)

[AccessBlaster]

 

[Mark_]

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Now THERE's a scary thought for you.

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[The_Doc_Man]

One reason I have refused to GET a smartphone is to avoid that kind of stuff. Flip-phone will work fine for me.

 

[Mark_]

Doc,

Found your phone...

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Mine is SLIGHTLY more modern. But only slightly.

 

[Gasman]

Built in aerial ?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

No, not that I can see. It is a style that some folks refer to as "clamshell" and it is on a 3G network. But I have to admit that I had to upgrade the phone I had before because it was only on a 2G network.

Then again, the ONLY reason I bought the old one was because during the months following Hurricane Katrina, I was working at a Navy alternate site in Ft. Worth Texas while my wife was supervising the contractors doing home restoration in Metairie Louisiana. She had a cell phone. I had a cell phone. The land line didn't get fixed right away and to be honest didn't need to be. We talked every night and often during the day on weekends.

Sometimes I called her on a Saturday when I was at a home furnishings store to ask her if she wanted some specific items I had seen. ALL of our current set of place mats and tablecloths came from shopping centers around Ft. Worth. THEIR shelves were stocked quite well. New Orleans? Not so much. Once a month I would come back to New Orleans for a weekend visit and drop off my finds. My mini-van was maxi-packed every time on the way home and kind of empty on the way back - but that was OK.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Back in the day the "Razor" flip phone was my go to phone. You could drop that phone it would explode into 3-4 pieces, you would put back together and off you would go. None of this broken screen crap like today.

 

[Gasman]

Sorry Doc, that was meant to be a joke.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace from about 2012. In Mexico recently, I lost my network and was unable to connect to the other.

It appears that was 4G and my phone is only 2G & 3G, so unable to do any charity work until the 3G network I connected to was back up.:banghead:

Sometimes technology works against you.

No, not that I can see. It is a style that some folks refer to as "clamshell" and it is on a 3G network. But I have to admit that I had to upgrade the phone I had before because it was only on a 2G network.

Then again, the ONLY reason I bought the old one was because during the months following Hurricane Katrina, I was working at a Navy alternate site in Ft. Worth Texas while my wife was supervising the contractors doing home restoration in Metairie Louisiana. She had a cell phone. I had a cell phone. The land line didn't get fixed right away and to be honest didn't need to be. We talked every night and often during the day on weekends.

Sometimes I called her on a Saturday when I was at a home furnishings store to ask her if she wanted some specific items I had seen. ALL of our current set of place mats and tablecloths came from shopping centers around Ft. Worth. THEIR shelves were stocked quite well. New Orleans? Not so much. Once a month I would come back to New Orleans for a weekend visit and drop off my finds. My mini-van was maxi-packed every time on the way home and kind of empty on the way back - but that was OK.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Gasman, I took it that way. I know I'm a dinosaur herder at times. You should have heard the kind of guff I got when I was still at work running an OpenVMS server, which the Navy counted as a mainframe. Yep, an O/S from 1977, still running strong in 2016 and the ONLY O/S they had for which the security "hardening" list was empty. I hardly EVER had to patch anything except the network stack software. Tells you what kind of dinosaurs I used to herd. The Access stuff was how I kept my sanity with more modern systems. And if you think about the irony of THAT statement for a while...

 

[Gasman]

That is the ironic approach of my charity now.
They expect everyone to have the latest all singing all dancing smartphone to get their email etc, otherwise it is web access only.

When I joined the charity, most volunteers were of the older generation. Now we have younger volunteers, but not even all of them have the latest smartphone.

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I recall the "perfect country song" that included topics of mother, prison, trucks, rain, guns, dogs, and bad love affairs. The refrain includes the question: Were you born an asshole or did you practice your whole life?

 

[Deleted member 147267]

Reminds me of one that I came up with when I was a kid and needed a comeback line. It was "Were you born a (fill in the appropriate word) or did you take lessons? We're talking early 1960's here.

 

[kevlray]

Back to the old phone conversation. I have a cheap flip phone (Trac phone). I do not use it much, thus not much need to spend a bunch of money for a money service. Twenty dollars every 90 days gives me plenty of minutes. My wife has the smart phone (where she gets a bunch of texts from my one daughter and we use the map services from time to time).

 

[Mackbear]

This sentence contains exactly threeee erors.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

He's gonna need a bigger gun.

 

[AccessBlaster]