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>>..by Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "The Meaning of Liff", et al.<<
Thanks--I knew I'd read that somewhere!
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Gosh, jmh, do you really think one day, gulp, I could join that august company?
Maybe August next year.
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amazing how memory fails me!
i saw an interview with douglas adams and he said he'd received countless letters with theories about the 42 thing. i was interested to hear that he wrote "the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" in his 20s.
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>>Dialling a number is inputting it, while ringing a number is actually making contact.<<
Strictly speaking, isn't making contact what happens after the ringing?
So in fact we have three stages - we dial the number, we listen to ringing while the network tries to make contact and then if we're lucky we might have a phone conversation.
I'm exhausted just thinking about it!
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>>if we're lucky we might have a phone conversation<< ...and why is it that you never get a busy signal when you have dialled/rung/connected with a wrong number? 
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In reply to:
and why is it that you never get a busy signal when you have dialled/rung/connected with a wrong number?
How would you find out that you had?
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>>and why is it that you never get a busy signal when you have dialled/rung/connected with a wrong number?<< David, it's for the same reason that, when you've been searching for something, it is always found in the last place you look.
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Which reminds me of the possibly apocryphal story of someone who wrote to a biscuit company suggesting that as the top biscuit in the packet usually turned out to be broken into little pieces, they leave the top biscuit out in future.
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<someone who wrote to a biscuit company suggesting that as the top biscuit in the packet usually
turned out to be broken into little pieces, they leave the top biscuit out in future>
Which reminds me, Bingley, that such a person in Tasmania (at least) would be known (politically incorrectly) as one biscuit short of a packet
… and, while we're on this subject, where have all the broken biscuits gone -- an essential part of a young fella's diet in the mid-50s.
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And with reference to at least 3 threads: Acronyms, politically incorrect terms for the less intelligent, and a reference in another thread to FNQ (Far North Queensland) residents speaking slowly.
When I saw FNQ it reminded me of the acronym NFQ (or whatever last letter fits your local environment). This is used in several proffesions (Nursing, Schools) and means "slow, educationally sub-normal". It is derived from "Normal For Queensland" (or wherever).
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