At 10:45 AM 10/15/2004, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: >On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Howard Winter wrote: > >>>i cant actually think of an instance where sombody would >>>die if they couldnt contact me personally. > >Come on. There are many situations well short of life-and-death >that make it acceptable to slightly intrude on someone else's >(ok, a BUNCH of someone elses') entertainment. > >"How dare you let your cellphone call that your kid is sick at >school and needs to be picked up interfere with my enjoyment of >Die-hard 7!" ?? gimme a break. Indeed.. Who's being arrogant here? :) I guess we could go back to the phone number on the screen, where we are 100% assured of disturbing everyone, instead of the phone situation where we are only disturbing a small number of people.. _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist