Should I get my tinfoil hat out?

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I haven't worn it for a while but I'm starting to get freaked out by my phone.

I HATE cel phones and I have happily lived without one for many years. Right now I have to have one. Not only that, I have to leave the damned thing turned on. And not only that, I actually have to answer it.

A couple of times a day it will ring and when I answer it does this weird little three tone blip deal.

That's it: blip-blip-blip from an unknown caller.

Okay.... one other thing. Usually my phone goes "ring ring" like a real phone but when these calls come through it plays this stange little bullfight type music.

I think it might be Martians.

Or Canadians.

Or maybe bull fighters.

Why are these people blipping at me?

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GET OUT OF THAT HOUSE ! ! !

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I'm sorry, what were you saying?

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Thats what Canadian, bullfighting, martians do.

I think Stephen Kings new book Cell will answer this question for you.

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http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/sas/solarsystem/inreach/mars/martians.jpg

BLIP, BLIP, BLIP

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So do you think that the Canadian bullfighting martians own an advertising agency?

I'm thinking of one of those "Halloween" movies where someone made a commercial that played a little song, flashed pictures of a pumpkin and the kid seeing the ad would fall over dead (or just become a brainwashed zombie - I can't remember which).

I'm thinking the blip-blip-blip might be trying to (A) Kill me or (B) Brainwash me.

Those Canadians are tricky what with their igloos and all....

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You just about summed up the plot to Cell.

If there is one thing to fear it is brainwashing, igloo dwelling, bullfighting, Canadian martians and somehow Djjd got a picture and lived to tell about it.

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I lean toward the pirate shaped tinfoil hat myself, seems to have superior wave blocking ablilities....I did try a fez style once...but honestly I just felt stupid.

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A hat might not be enough.

http://republicoft.typepad.com/republic_of_t/foilroom.jpg

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sublime1 wrote:

and somehow Djjd got a picture and lived to tell about it.

ummm, i'm canadian

but keep that under your tinfoil hat Wink

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sublime1 wrote:

You just about summed up the plot to Cell.

And here I sit trying to figure out how to get a third meal out of that damn chicken!

<sheesh>

I need to put my paranoia to work.

Or at least learn to be a quicker thief.

Or change my name to Stephan Kang.

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It's not a text message or voice mail notification, is it?

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Ummmm.... errrrr..... uhhhh......

maybe.

I don't do text message stuff but voice mail is within my competency sphere.

But wouldn't I get a phone call first?

This is just out of the blue.

I carry the idiotic thing in my pocket. It rings and vibrates to snap me out of whatever stupor I might be in. You'd think I'd know if someone had called and that I would have answered it before it went to voice mail.

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One can get new voicemail without the phone ringing. I have two customers where I have no signal inside the building; if I walk outside and get the voicemail alert.

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Okay.... I managed to get the phone number written down .... 800-784-6956 - The Westgate Resorts Reservations Hotline.

So why the blip-blip-blip?

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2PacksAday wrote:

I lean toward the pirate shaped tinfoil hat myself, seems to have superior wave blocking ablilities....I did try a fez style once...but honestly I just felt stupid.

I laughed out loud and now everyone here thinks I am nuts...which is kinda nice since that gives me liberty to wear this pirate tin foil hat without people thinking I am any more crazy than they already do.

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Heh

I shouldn't say this because nobody likes "that guy" that laughs at his own jokes...but I was giggling pretty hard when I pushed send on that one.

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