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Paw Master [17573]
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My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:19 PM
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I’m thankful it wasn’t clipped to my braided belt. I laid it on my VCR before I read the paper this morning and completely forgot to bring it to work. As soon as I punched my time card, I realized I left it. The pager is completely gone, VCR damaged beyond repair, shellac on my wood paneling is crackled up, and my popcorn ceiling has minor smoke damage.
I’m calling Alltel as soon as they open tomorrow morning, and you better believe I’m gonna let them have it.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [98449]
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TiME CARD!
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:25 PM
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Haven't heard that word since early to late 60's when I worked for 2-3 companies out of college but then hired myself in 1970, later creating 2-3 companies with one still giving me a meager penitence 40 years later.
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Top TigerNet [29304]
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I saw a Roman #### once
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:29 PM
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On my dad’s satellite dish. Those things were huge. The satellite dish, that is.
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Top TigerNet [29304]
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Re: I saw a Roman #### once
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:49 PM
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So 0rgy is a banned word?! Stop the censorship TNet!!!
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Clemson Sports Icon [57404]
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LOL....On our MLS site, you can no longer use the word,"Bonus", as in...
Sep 18, 2024, 7:04 AM
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"....and as a bonus,this home has its own private boat ramp..."....
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Re: LOL....On our MLS site, you can no longer use the word,"Bonus", as in...
Sep 18, 2024, 12:11 PM
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That seems excessive. The company I worked for around 2003 started putting emails in “quarantine” if they contained certain banned words. I had one from our sanitation supplier that got stuck there. I needed the report that was attached so I went through the red tape to get it released from quarantine. Turns out the chemical rep had misspelled our maintenance manager’s name. His last name was Condon and a simple typo got that email sent to quarantine. About the same time I had an email from a recruiter get quarantined. Seems the honors the candidate received at her college graduation set off the censor. I think she graduated summa c u m laude. They gave up on the automated quarantine system pretty quickly.
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Clemson Sports Icon [57404]
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This was brought about by the recent NAR lawsuit....Many years ago we
Sep 18, 2024, 11:03 PM
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had to stop using words such as "Handyman special" and "Country Club".....
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:31 PM
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Well that explains a lot.
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:41 PM
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You are lucky it did not damage your 8 track tapes.
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Paw Master [17573]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 7:35 PM
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I actually store them in a caboodle under my TV cabinet. Completely safe.
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:45 PM
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Bwahahahahha, made my day. Great post.
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Re: My pager exploded today. That's code for something diry isnt it
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:48 PM
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And if not it should be.
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 6:51 PM
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I had to call Dial Page. Said the number was disconnected. Guess I'm screwed.
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 7:52 PM
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You could have been saved!!!
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 7:50 PM
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I guess yours was part of the ones that blew up in Hezbollah!!!
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Game Changer [2085]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 8:49 PM
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Man, you young ones have all the up to date stuff.
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 9:31 PM
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In the future they’ll have a push-to-talk cellular device called a Nextel. When you need to talk to somebody you’ll just hit a button on the side of your phone and you’ll be able to communicate at long distances like talking through a walkie-talkie. Everyone around you will be able to hear your entire conversation. It will be amazing.
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Paw Master [17573]
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Nice try.
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Sep 17, 2024, 9:51 PM
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Ham radio already allows me to broadcast to tons of interesting people every Friday night. We usually have our neighbors Buddy and Delphine come over for a Jell-O salad and coffee, then Buddy and I dial in on the set while the girls play cribbage and gossip. Love gettin together at the local Lion’s Club operator meetup once a quarter.
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 18, 2024, 6:29 AM
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I had one of those futuristic devices. My boss would start talking to me about profit margins while I was in customer's offices and I learned real quick how to press the button to squelching his voice lol
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 17, 2024, 9:54 PM
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Good thing you weren’t in a phone booth using a pay phone at the time it exploded.
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Paw Master [17573]
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Not a decent one to be found nowadays
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Sep 17, 2024, 9:56 PM
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with the kids vandalizing the phonebooks and all.
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 18, 2024, 2:12 AM
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My pager blow up also less damage on my end. My KISS leather jacket got a few burn holes. But my Brut colegen I got from Revco was destroyed. Thinking about getting me a bag phone so this doesn't happen again.
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Orange Blooded [2183]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 18, 2024, 5:30 AM
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Last pager I had was when I was a Jr at Clemson and my wife was pregnant. The only payphone available was the outside the ice cream shop in Agricultural building. So I used it a lot, because she had complications and was actually hospitalized at Oconee several times.
The pager was given to me by my wife's OBGYN doc. 2 of my professors pulled me into their offices and asked me if everything was, "ok"? They assumed I had started doing something illegal to make ends meet as a full-time student with a sick pregnant wife. My how things have changed.
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Tiger Spirit [9742]
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Johnny Cash started playing in my head when I read this***
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Paw Master [17573]
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dont know much about him,
Sep 18, 2024, 6:38 AM
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but I know his momma plays a mean autoharp.
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Re: dont know much about him,
Sep 19, 2024, 5:49 AM
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Momma-in-law, Mabel!
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Orange Blooded [2544]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 18, 2024, 6:58 AM
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If your pager exploded, you should be expecting a visit from the FBI some time soon.
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Paw Master [17573]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
Sep 18, 2024, 7:50 AM
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I’ve been expecting that for years – the pager changes nothing. I’m ready for a tyrannical government to come knocking…
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Dynasty Maker [3243]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 18, 2024, 7:14 AM
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Re: My pager exploded today.
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Sep 18, 2024, 11:56 AM
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Call Southern Bell and see if they can fax you over some instructions on how to repair it.
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Redshirt [99]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
Sep 18, 2024, 2:25 PM
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LOL, I haven't had one of those antiques since the 1990's. That is probably why they blew up, battery corrosion!!
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Re: My pager exploded today.
Sep 18, 2024, 11:39 PM
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Might be showing my age here but what is a pager? And that other thing the VCR?
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110%er [3775]
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Re: My pager exploded today.
Sep 19, 2024, 5:49 AM
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And was it a Betamax?
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Re: My pager exploded today.
Sep 19, 2024, 5:51 AM
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Evidently walkie-talkies can explode too, if you're over in a certain area of the world.
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