Friday Jokes

[PHXPhlyer]

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[Woody]

Spacing between words is important

[llondel]

So is proper use of capital letters, the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

[llondel]

[Woody]

[Pontius Navigator]

Woody, naughty step for 5 minutes, that was a **** joke

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[Pontius Navigator]

But not too long indoors if you have photochromic lenses

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[Rwy in Sight]

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[FD2]

The company I worked for had these amazing new mobile phones for the salesmen. The things weighed a ton and battery life was very limited, without plugging it into the cigar lighter socket. I don't remember any getting nicked from cars - the weight may have helped! They didn't seem to have your phone's bells and whistles RiS!

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[Rwy in Sight]

The weight as an anti-theft device is rather original.

[Hydromet]

RiS, my first encounter with a mobile phone was one of those. We hired one to investigate coverage in far SW New South Wales, as we were looking at equipping some of our instruments with mobile telephony.

Sitting in the middle of the Hay Plains, the brick we'd hired rang. When I answered, a male voice asked "Is that the Wagga stripper?" (Wagga Wagga is the town we'd hired the phone from.)
When I returned the phone I told the shop owner what had happened. He told me that after the phone had been returned from its previous hire, they had been receiving about 20 such calls a day.

[G-CPTN]

I went on an interview for a job.
The boss took me to lunch in his Jaguar.
The 'phone rang, but he said it would go to the ansaphone.
I was amazed by the concept of a physical ansaphone built into a vehicle (not realising that it all occurred 'in the ether').

[Pontius Navigator]

I remember seeing my first portable phone in 1967. It appeared to be an ordinary black telephone sitting on a box, same size as the phone but a little deeper. It was being carried by the senior Bomber Controller at High Wycombe.

Around the same time the AA was providing an in car telephone. It was aimed at the single woman lest their car broke down. It only connected with the AA Centre but they would however pass on messages.

Illegal CB radios were the next step in mobile technology but soon became nerd stuff once they were made legal.

Another illegal mobile tool went by the name of war walking. Driving around and getting an Internet connection through unprotected WiFi.

On holiday I could pick up free WiFi in stores. I had a parabolic dish that could pick up distance WiFi. Our hotel in Cape Town didn't offer WiFi but the next one did. Best though was Madeira with free WiFi in Funchal. I got a good connection from across the harbour from our cruise ship.

Another free Internet connection was via the early Amazon Kindle which only had 2G connectivity. Cruising in the Med we could 'Island hop'

[Boac]

Another free Internet connection was via the early Amazon Kindle which only had 2G connectivity.

?? 2G is voice and text. How did that work?

[Pontius Navigator]

Another free Internet connection was via the early Amazon Kindle which only had 2G connectivity.

?? 2G is voice and text. How did that work?

It had data too. Not fast and originally intended only to download books.

Anyway as I joke thread I think we have strayed too far.

[Archer]

The first generation mobile phone used an analogue connection (you could eavesdrop on those with a decent scanner), 2G was the first digital connection and allowed a limited data connection using GPRS.

[John Hill]

I had a 100W transceiver which took up almost all the space under the dash' on the passenger side. AM, USB, LSB and CW. I used CW mostly with a key (a paddle actually) on the dash' . I could usually get a phone patch when I needed it.

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