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"Does anyone still use a pager?"

I remember a time when pagers were the hip thing to have. All the richest kids had them and all the poor, more pikey kids wanted them. And you had to be pretty well off to send messages to them too. And even then you had to speak the message to someone so they could manually vet it and then, somehow, electronically send it to their little buzzing plastic box. Then mobile phones and texting came and blew it all away in one fell swoop, reducing pagers to being used in restaurants to let you know when your table is ready. Once I wanted to send a messsage to someone that said "Chad blows goats and sucks donkeys", but the operator wouldn't let me. Too rude, apparently. So Ijust said it to his face instead - far cheaper. I'm glad mobiles came along and allow me to send obscene and rude messages to whoever I want.

Terrorists still use them for remote detonation.









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MoJoJoJo wrote:
> *bullies jump on cookie*

Let them come.

*Turns on bloodlust*

"Guff?!"

*bullies jump on cookie*

Ive always thought of them as being guff.

The Chillie Peppers use pagers!!!!!!!

Doctors use them.

I still use toilet paper.
And the odd pocket-sized notebook.

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Oh, pager. Too late I'm hitting *post*.

SHEEPY wrote:
> I'm sure that said paper
>
> And no I don't and never have

i thought it says paper i had a pager but the battery ran out because of all the football results!

I had a pager once - I got it off a mate for a pittance. The trouble is, it wasn't even a text pager - it was a numbered one. So you had to fiddle around sending a stupid number to the pager and hope the recipient understood that "666" didn't actually refer to the sign of Satan, rather it meant, "phone home now, you idiot."

Needless to say, the pager didn't get used once and, as far as I know, it's still sitting on a shelf in my room gathering dust.

SHEEPY wrote:
> Who spilt beer on John's face?

Ste, short for Steve...