Re: Nomo-phobia

Paul Dormer wrote:
> Seems to me there are many reasons why a mobile is tem****arily
> unavailable.  Being on a tube train for example.  And I always switch
> mine off before going into a concert hall or opera house.  They
> actually ask you to do this theseadays; when mobiles started coming in,
> many a Beethoven symphony was ruined by one going off.  (Before mobiles,
> it was the introduction of digital watches.  Many people had no idea
> how to turn off the hourly beeps on those.)

The NPR station where I have been working phones at the fundraisers has 
a single room for the announcers and the volunteers, so there is a sign 
asking everybody to make sure their cell phone is either off or set on 
"stun."

Kip W
"The calliginous creep
With his cell-phone's beep
In crowded concert halls
His number we'll lend
To the Psychic Friends
And they can receive his calls."