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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
ooops! See how inept I am!!! I did mean 90 degrees!!!

(...if he accidentally came in the top 3 hahahahahaha!!!)

Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
PS re Olympic Opening ceremony, for anyone who has access to the Canadian coverage- it is at 1PM on Friday afternoon :-):-)

CBC Olympic coverage can be found at CBC. They are offering 245 hours of TV coverage for this Olympics!!

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I love watching the Olympics on CBC! It's an hour earlier in our time zone.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
The great thing about the CBC is that they show a lot of the events live, regardless of the time. And they have a very balanced coverage of the events.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 4:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
exactly!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
My dumb question:

Is there any reason I shouldn't take off the grates over the air conditioning vents and stick the vacuum hose down there to hoover up the dust?

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 2:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Nope. I am not an expert though. But I do know that to get your vents professionally cleaned, it is way expensive...

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
That's what I thought, that I might be able to make a difference without paying someone else to do it. There doesn't look like there's anything other than a big metal tube down there, but I thought I should just run it by someone! Thanks :-).

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I’m not convinced that professional vent cleaning does any good anyway. Just thinking about it, yes there can be a lot of stuff down in the vents. Yes they can loosen it up and suck it out. But why do they have to loosen it up and suck it out? Because it wasn’t coming out and going anywhere in the first place.

So I’m not sure …..

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Okay, here is an interesting question for anybody who might know or care to research it. Anybody know when U.S. telephone exchanges quit using alphabetic prefixes and went to all numerals? As in when did Lakewood 77-578 (LA7-7578) become 517-7578?

Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory3A/numbers.html

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Bob!! Good work. So, looks like sometime between 1958 and 1973. Began 1958, completed 15 or so years later.

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
juju, just so you know..i googled my ass of last night (well, i wish), while dh was waiting to get to our computer (umm that's another story about the new laptop sitting in the corner).

i didn't think my results were "worthy" of posting. sorry, i tried really, really hard.

i do love the question...so,

what year did YOUR phone number change (for those oldies here).

i'll report on that later. just so you know, my Mom still has the original phone from our house in her kitchen (in this little space built in). the same house i grew up in...the house built in 1951 (my oldest sister was 8 years older than i was....i'm the "youngest" in the family. ahem..i was born in 1953).

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 2:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Abby7, thanks for your efforts.

I never lived in a town that was big enough to have the alphabetical exchanges. We went straight from five numbers to seven numbers around 1960-62. How I remember that is we had a parakeet that talked, and we were worried that if he got out, he would get lost, so we taught him his phone number. Then we had to teach him the two new numbers that went in front.

Well, and here is a cuter story. When we were teaching him our number, 23254, he would get hung up on the two-threes, and he would mutter, two-three, two-three, two-three-two, so we would yell at him 54. So when he finally learned it, he would say two-three-two-FIVE-FOUR!!!

Kiersten_love
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08-03-2001

Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kiersten_love a private message Print Post    
Ok here is another quesiton, i hope you can help my daughter out once again thanks :-)

2. 8 Boxes were placed in “The Pressure Cooker” What color were the boxes, what was inside each box, and who choose each box?

I have seriously looked everywhere and i got some of them, but not all of them..please help her

Kiersten_love
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08-03-2001

Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kiersten_love a private message Print Post    
the comp is over, she doesn't need the answers anymore..thanks

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
cell phone questions.

i have had cell phones for years and they have always come with a wide variety of ringtones for me to select from with no problem finding one i like. now, dh & i have just gotten new ones and they both only have about 10. we don't like any of them.

is there a way to download a ringtone to my computer and then upload it to my phone?

i am a total dweeb when it comes to things like this. i also am cheap and don't want to pay for the connectivity time to do it through the air.

i want to put The Who's Who Are You on my phone and dh wants to put REM's It's the End of the World.

next question same topic.

i found both of these songs snippets as ringtones in 'code', you know, 123's & abc's, but haven't a clue as to what i am supposed to do to get it on my phone.

how does one 'program' a ringtone using code into one's phone?

if it matters dh has a motorola razor and i have a motorola v557.

thanks!

Landi
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07-29-2002

Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
cndeariso, just go to your wireless phone's company on the website. mine is cingular, you pick the ringtone you like, it sends it to your phone, you save it, and when the phone rings, it's your ringtone. it's VERY SIMPLE and the instructions are usually right there. you're going the LONG way about it. also, those are mono ringtones you are talking about programming. i have INXS' pretty vegas, and it is truly JD singing as my ringtone. i also have a razor.

if you tell me the carrier, i'll give you the links to get to your ringtone.


Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
yes, but you have to PAY for that to be sent, don't you? i don't want to pay for it at all. i have cingular. and the way i read it was that i would be charged to connect for that separate for my minutes. i don't use the ticker service or internet or text messaging. i just want a phone.

if i have misunderstood and all of this is free please let me know, thanks!

Saba
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05-27-2004

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 1:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saba a private message Print Post    
Hello,
I have a quick question: I would like to take a VHS tape and copy it to a blank DVD. I have a GO VIDEO deck that has a copy button, and I assume that it is supposed to be for copying a VHS tape to DVD. My question is this: What type of blank DVD do I buy? I have spent $$ buying the wrong kind apparently DVD+R, DVD-R, etc and am so confused, so can some smart person help simplify it? I would really be so appreciative of your help. Help! I am a huge BB fan by the way! please help ASAP thanks! If this post is in wrong place I apologize need technical help Thanks! Saba :-)

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
In CAST AWAY, what was in the last box he didn't open? (The one he delivered at the very end.) Seems to me I remember discussion about it a while back and if you watched the all the credits, they showed what was in it. Is that right?? It was on ABC last night and they didn't show all the credits. TIA!!!

Saba, I don't really know, but I bet if ya called Best Buy, someone there could tell ya... Or I bet someone here knows.

Tera
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08-10-2000

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tera a private message Print Post    
I may be wrong but I don't think they ever showed what was in it. From what I remember he delivered the box back to the sender and left a note on it saying that box saved his life. Perhaps it was something to do with the angel wings painted on it.

It has been so long since I have seen that movie, but that is what I remember.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
There was some joking by a cast member that it was a solar powered satellite phone (I think that is a DVD Easter Egg), but I don't think they ever said in the movie.

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
http://reviews.cnet.com/GoVideo_VR3930/4505-6463_7-30710161.html?tag=box
Saba,
I found your answer at the above link. Only certain types of DVD's work. Read down to the ratings. I think it is in the 3rd or 4th one down.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
Robert Zemeckis (the director of Cast Away) was asked at a Q&A session at USC what was in the unopened packaged. He replied that it was a waterproof, solar-powered, satellite phone. To hear him say it for yourself on the DVD, do this: Start at the Special Features Main Menu and enter the Video & Stills Galleries. When you see "Raft Escape" press left on your remote to highlight the "World Of Time" logo.