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Sep 21, 2007 11:02 |  #1

The husband just called me and told me that they've discontinued popcorn. At first I thought he was nuts because how can anyone discontinue a food found everywhere. That would be like trying to discontinue hamburgers or something.

And then he explained that it was the phone number. Ahhhhhhh! I know that at least in Northern California, when you would call 767-xxxx (or POPCORN or any POPxxxx) you would get the time. I remember being fascinated by this as a kid and called all the time. I did this less so as an adult, but still called every once in a blue moon.

Now I will never hear that lady's voice again announcing the time. And that kind of depresses me.


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Sep 21, 2007 11:06 |  #2

Too bad, I just called right now and it is no longer in service. I heard that they were to close few weeks back, but didn't know it's going to be this soon.

We should make one of our own...


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Sep 21, 2007 11:47 |  #3

spyraling wrote in post #3978139 (external link)
The husband just called me and told me that they've discontinued popcorn. At first I thought he was nuts because how can anyone discontinue a food found everywhere....

A reasonable assumption in socialist California. :D


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Sep 21, 2007 11:48 as a reply to  @ ZekaG's post |  #4

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Sep 21, 2007 12:10 as a reply to  @ Karl C's post |  #5

oh my gosh - I grew up in Nor-cal and I used to call that all the time ... I had forgotten, how funny, and a little sad ...


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Sep 21, 2007 13:06 |  #6

Thats funny....I never knew AT&T had that service. A local bank does that here...I unless they stopped to.


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Sep 21, 2007 13:33 |  #7

Wow... POPCORN... I used to call that to set the time on my beeper. I still don't understand why I even got a beeper... Now that I think about it, I could've just recieved the call at my house phone.


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Sep 21, 2007 13:41 |  #8

beeper was the s###, because if you didn't want to call back, you could pretend you never got the beep. now they know you got the voicemail... :(


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Sep 21, 2007 14:13 |  #9

WHEW...as a dentist I was breaking out in a cold sweat after reading the tittle...that would be half of our income!


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Sep 21, 2007 14:22 |  #10

Hmm... Just to let you guys know, that by dialing the number, listening to the time and hanging up sets your phone to listen only. The men in black then have a direct line into your house. Better look out the window as I’m sure the black helicopters are on their way.

Seriously, I’m surprised that the phone company is discontinuing the service. I am sure that no people were there barking out the time and they possible cant be so out of phone numbers that one number is going to make them a huge profit.


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Sep 21, 2007 14:30 |  #11

I still listen to the shortwave radio to the NIST WWV broadcasts "At the tone 10 hours 56 minutes coordinated universal time...... BEEEP"

(and I had a cat named popcorn .... he died :-( )




  
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Sep 21, 2007 14:33 |  #12

Well, Atomic/GPS watches are a lot cooler and smaller now... I guess that's the better way to go.


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Sep 21, 2007 15:33 |  #13

Shultsjh wrote in post #3979450 (external link)
Well, Atomic/GPS watches are a lot cooler and smaller now... I guess that's the better way to go.

With less radiation to boot ;). :lol:


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Sep 21, 2007 15:38 |  #14

HAHA... It's a radio signal from Denver... There's probably more radiation from the computer screen right now...


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Sep 21, 2007 16:42 |  #15

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