I just tried calling the number for the correct time, and found out that this service has been discontinued! Yet another reason to hate AT&T.
Where else can a person get the accurate, current time?
Raymond, my dear son;
Just "Google" time, and it comes up. you don't have to get fancy; just type in: time
So simple that I couldn’t beleve it.
Thanks!
What is wrong with your cell phone?
He forgot to put it on the charger…
The only clock on my cell phone has to be manually set.
Ray Dunakin said:Perhaps it's time to upgrade? They don't need wind-up keys now, either. ;)
The only clock on my cell phone has to be manually set.
Later,
K
They don’t?
I have to pull the weights up on the one in the front toom.
Two, we lift the glass domes and…turn the key.
Even the Russian Submarine Clock on the wall above the monitor has a key.
And you know what?
They run during power outtages and we don’t have to buy primary cells for them.
I even have the funny glass things around the house with vases on top, some rope, and some kind of liquid.
A match makes the rope create light.
Works through power outtages.
Funny thing about technology.
What’s really funny is friends come to visit and we show the the dial phones.
I have my grandfather’s 1944 dial phone, sitting on my grandfather’s 1905 solid oak desk, just next to the 1902 Underwood crash proof word processor (typewriter).
Then I turn around, sitting in my grandfather’s 1905 oak (hard) chair and there is my 2003 computer, that is more ancient that the stuff mentioned above. 
A Dial Phone!! You don’t have to crank it…??
We actually had one of those when I was a small child, living in the log cabin, where I had to walk ten mile uphill through the snow to school, both ways. We brought in wood for the kitchen stove whenever we came back from the privy.
Steve Featherkile said:
I have my grandfather's 1944 dial phone, sitting on my grandfather's 1905 solid oak desk, just next to the 1902 Underwood crash proof word processor (typewriter).Then I turn around, sitting in my grandfather’s 1905 oak (hard) chair and there is my 2003 computer, that is more ancient that the stuff mentioned above.
Tell me about it! I’ve been making do with a computer that’s about 10 years old. Although it works perfectly, I’m now being forced to replace it because I can’t even access my ebay account anymore.
Imagine if cars were like computers. You’d go out to do some shopping and run errands, and half the stores bar you at the door. “Sorry, we only sell to people with new cars.”
Fooey.
Not tongue in cheek…the first phone I recall as a kid didn’t have a dial. You picked up the receiver and asked the operator to connect you to the correct person. Also not tongue in cheek the regular phone service at my parent’s summer place was on an 8 party line. No private lines were available in that area. Getting on the phone was so bad that the people living in the area strung their own phone line through the trees and had their own phone serivce so they could at least converse with each other. The phones were crank type.
As for cars, that’s exactly what states are doing with smog laws. They make the laws, give you a way around them and then make a back door that keeps you from exercising that option. Either have to sell the car or spend far more than it’s worth to get it to pass the smog tests.
Don’t own a mobile phone - never have. It’s like paying to wear a pager.
If I’m down the beach fishing, you can’t reach me. That’s intentional.
I will not own a silly phone.
It seems that you can’t have a conversation with anyone these days, that doesn’t get interupted by a call on their silly phone.
I see these twits at the supermarket that seem to have to ask some other twit on the other end of their silly phone; what kind of soup to buy, and whether to buy oranges or pears…twits…
The only use I can see for one, is STRICTLY for emergencies…and NOT TO BE USED WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING.
I know a few people that can’t go for more than 5 minutes without checking their SILLY PHONE…egads…some even have to call their wives/husbands, every few minutes to make sure they haven’t forgotten to call them.
And then they get one of the stupid phones for their kids…Grrrrrrrr!
Twits!