YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 when...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Iain

(Ray Martin with his bloody glued on smile:mad: )

---

Glued on hair too!

SilentC Is there not a legal thing called 'cooling off period' Me thinks you were forced into this agreement and therefore they (the ph co.) are legally guilty of extortion. Call them back and place that on their tushes. Tonto

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wood Butcher

When SWMBO and I are both studying and she has her headphones on with the music up loud, MSN is the only way I can get her attention!:(

---

What is it with students these days? There is no way I could study and listen to music simultaneously. But I suppose females are able to multi-task:)

Rocker

I'm with Tonto, I thought there is a 14 day period where you can retract your request. Contact the Telco Ombudsman for advice!!

[QUOTE=DriverIt's enough to drive you to drink!

What's that? Another glass of red? I don't mind if I do! (Hic! ...Wha...?)[/QUOTE]

Squire,

That reminds me of a BBC radio comedy program from the 40's, which you are probably too young to remember, called 'Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh'. There was a character on it whose line, whenever there was a reference to something that could be interpreted as the name of a drink, was "I don't mind if I do'.

Rocker

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rocker

Squire,

That reminds me of a BBC radio comedy program from the 40's, which you are probably too young to remember, called 'Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh'. There was a character on it whose line, whenever there was a reference to something that could be interpreted as the name of a drink, was "I don't mind if I do'.

Rocker

---

I'm glad to see someone pick up the allusion. I remember Much Binding In The Marsh. It was still being broadcast into the early 50s and I can recall those broadcasts quite well.

That catchphrase: "I don't mind if I do" - uttered with a fruity, alcohol-induced bonhomie, was still being used by radio and television comics in the UK well into the late 60s.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Driver

That catchphrase: "I don't mind if I do" - uttered with a fruity, alcohol-induced bonhomie, was still being used by radio and television comics in the UK well into the late 60s.

---

On our fly fishing trips the phrase is (with a single malt or a good ag brew) 'another cup of tea vicar':D :D :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Iain

On our fly fishing trips the phrase is (with a single malt or a good ag brew) 'another cup of tea vicar':D :D :D

---

Whereas, in my youth, when someone in the throng farted, the line was: "Do have another cucumber sandwich, vicar."

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Driver

Whereas, in my youth, when someone in the throng farted, the line was

---

Keep calling Sir, we'll find you, or, Fall in the Officers, or (for the Social Workers) I just had to share this moment with you:rolleyes:

I found a man the other day who did not own a mobile phone and did not have a lap top, interesting conversation as long as you did not talk about anthing after 1980.:cool:

& what about Arthur?

"I'll 'ave 'alf"

Read a quote the other day...
The good thing about the future, It only comes one day at a time.

2006

Where we can get picked up for doing 81km/hr in an 80 zone.
Where we get "server busy" more often than the old "engaged tone" on the phone.

hmm

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Driver

Whereas, in my youth, when someone in the throng farted, the line was: "Do have another cucumber sandwich, vicar."

---

You say that as a joke but one day when we were being shown around a church in St.Kilda by the local minister he let out a rifter; this was just a mild precursor to a whole battery. None of us could believe it, talk about the 1812. Luckily they were all noise and no stench so he would have been marked down if he was in competition. Much Binding in the Marsh - Dicky Murdoch and crew. Was Arthur Askey in that? I seem to recall that they paired up in something a little later. (We listened to that on the radio in the 50's). Odd that as i get older i find myself preferring the radio to the tv. Thank heavens for the ABC as commercial radio is blech.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by silentC

Here's a good one. The wife had a call from a Telstra person earlier this week. "We have analysed your phone usage and you would be better off with plan X". OK, so she agrees to change it - at an extra cost of $10 per month. Then she goes away and thinks about it and realises that it's actually going to cost us more, so she rings up to cancel the change. She is told that the change has already gone through and we will have to pay a penalty of $15 to change back. The woman looks at what the change was and agrees that it was the wrong plan to put us on, and that the person who rang in the first place didn't know what she was talking about. However, it's all automatic and we can't put it back to the old plan without incurring the fee because it's "in the computer".

So, I'm sorry Zed, but phone companies are effing useless. And I hate them. Yes, I know hate is a strong word, but at the moment that is how I feel. :D

---

Hi sorry you have been told a load of crap i work for telstra have done for several years
we dodnt charge a fee to change people accounts there is no fee to change things
never has been you can be put back on your old plan .... the only thing it will do is make a mess of your next phone bill and make it very hard to understand .. if you like u can ring every day and change your phone plan its ok with us its just when u go to read ur next bill it will look like its had so many changed it cant make up its mind if it is comming or going ... but its your account and you can do as you like ...

if you dodnt believe me ring 132200 and say billing and you will have a consultant tell you the same thing cheers Nate


sorry didnt realise i was shouting thats fixed nate

Hmm Nate. A first post and you're shouting, you're abusing, you're pushing a corporate line and you're using lousy spelling and no grammar. Not a good start mate. How about you have another go (yes, I'm happy to accept you're passionate, I suffer from that too :D ).

Richard
psssst, this isn't SMS