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saluki
saluki Member Posts: 2,287
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
How many days have these people been out there in line at Best Buy and similar stores awaiting the very second these revolutionary phones were allowed to be sold-------

Every news show was out there watching The Mayor of Philadelphia in line throughout the day and night stating how he can conduct the city's business wherever he is----even siting on the pavement outside Best buy.

Well now they are all sold out of these amazing phones and although the Henry Winklers and Mayor Streets will probably keep their phones-----The rest will be sold on EBAY for as much as $1,500.00 dollars. Now thats what I call American entrepreneurship-----What a world.
Gotta love it!
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited July 2007
    Yep! Just gotta have the latest, greatest gadget, or status symbol.
    So glad somebody has the disposable income for these.
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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited July 2007
    Saluki-- so what's worth, Mayor Street waiting in line during a work day for the phones while the murder rate hits 200 or having his aide stand in for him while he went to a speaking engagement? Can you say-- LAME DUCK.
    To be honest, if money wasn't an issue I'd want one-- but until I win the lottery, I'm be satisfied with my V3-- it's pink afterall .
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  • Jorf
    Jorf Member Posts: 498
    edited July 2007
    Any other product would drop from it's $600 opening retail price to about $300 in two months, right?

    Amazing how well Apple products are able to stay at the same prices for years.

    Of course, once they upgrade the thing to be a PDA as well - THEN these old hackers will be $100 and the real thing will be about $1000!
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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited May 2008

    I'm holding out for the computer chip in your head implant! <just kidding>

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  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,701
    edited July 2007
    AH, darn it!! Missed this one by a week!


    Apple Computers announced today that it has developed a computer chip that can store and play music in women's breast implants.

    The iBoob will cost between $499 and $599. This is considered to be a major breakthrough, because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

    Thanks to Apple, everyone is now happy.
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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited May 2008

    OMG! That is hilarious!

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  • MargaretB
    MargaretB Member Posts: 1,305
    edited July 2007
    Lini, that was pretty funny. Honestly though, I do have a girlfriend who has a thing with phones and she wanted an iphone so bad that since she doesn't have Cingular, she was willing to pay the extra money to 1) add a phone line to my plan; 2) pay the extra money on my bill; and 3) have her current phone forwarded to her new Cingular number. She thought about it though and resisted.

    How about the people who started Iwaitinline.com - just started out because of the iphone but I could see it working for other things; i.e., standing in line for passport renewal, dmv, etc.
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  • rrs
    rrs Member Posts: 614
    edited July 2007

    Believe it or not - I have no cell phone!

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  • sherloc
    sherloc Member Posts: 1,047
    edited July 2007
    hahahahahahahahahahahahah
    well shoot, I want one of the darn things and I don't have a cell phone.
    They just look so pickin cool on the commercials.
    Hubby told me they were only released for sale on the east coast. Is that true?
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited July 2007

    Nah, they were available across all time zones.

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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited July 2007

    Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones

    Wed Jul 4, 8:08 AM ET

    Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.

    Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

    Dong, a professor with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said when the villagers found out the bones were from dinosaurs they donated 200 kilograms (440 pounds) to him and his colleagues for research.

    "They had believed that the 'dragon bones' were from the dragons flying in the sky," he said.

    The calcium-rich bones were sometimes boiled with other ingredients and fed to children as a treatment for dizziness and leg cramps. Other times they were ground up and made into a paste that was applied directly to fractures and other injuries, he said.

    The practice had been going on for at least two decades, he said.

    Dong was among a team of scientists who recently excavated in Henan's Ruyang County an 60-foot-long plant-eating dinosaur, which lived 85 million to 100 million years ago. Local officials held a news conference Tuesday, showing off the find to the public for the first time.

    Another two dinosaur fossils were being excavated in the area, which is rich in fossilized dinosaur eggs, Dong said.

    Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited July 2007
    Oh Lini...that is just so funny. Considering both of us just had implants put in, it holds special meaning.

    Suzie and Amy, I was a little apalled at the media for making a big deal of it. Guess his salary supports his electronics habits. What bothers me is that the state congress and the governor can't agree on a budget. Now let's see, the state politicians voted a raise for themselves and have the best health plan possible that they don't pay a dime for. How are they paying for all this except raising our taxes? Sorry for getting off-topic here and being a downer. The news this morning just ticked me off. And yes, I agree, Ed Rendell is a bully but he has got a lot accomplished!
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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited July 2007
    There is odd and then there is odd. This is truly odd and has to be an all time topper for perverse humor.
    http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/06/largest.loo.ap/index.html
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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited July 2007
    From Yahoo
    Family searches feces of cash-eating dog

    Thu Jul 19, 10:11 PM ET

    Debbie Hulleman's dog Pepper has been known to gnaw on lipstick, munch on shampoo bottles and chew on toothpaste. But Pepper got Hulleman into a real mess after gobbling nearly $750.

    "This is probably the worst," Hulleman said Thursday, recalling how she poked through vomit and dog piles left in the yard to recover the cash.

    Hulleman had asked her mother in Oakdale, Minn., to take care of Pepper and Zach, the family's other dog last month while she and husband went on vacation.

    Pepper, an 8-year-old black Labrador-German shorthair, got into a purse belonging to her mother's friend and chewed the cash from an envelope.

    Hulleman's mother recovered some of the money that Pepper spit out, thinking she had it all. But when Hulleman returned from the trip and went to clean up her dogs' mess outside, she noticed a $50 bill hanging from one pile.

    The chore of sorting through dog feces netted about $400, the 50-year-old dog lover said. Between that and other bills that Pepper had either vomited or simply chewed on, the family recovered $647.

    "We have a $100 bill that can't be recovered because you need three-fourths of a bill and it is only half of a bill," Hulleman said.

    The family swapped the soiled money for fresh currency at a bank.

    "It wasn't that bad. I soaked it and strained it and rinsed it. I just kept rinsing it and rinsing it. I had rubber gloves on of course," Hulleman said.

    "Everyone said, 'I can't believe you did that.' Well, for $400, yeah, I would do that," she said.

    Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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