They are doing this because the Postal Service says it's loosing 32 million a yr. in postage. It has bipartisan support!

CALL YOUR SENATOR!

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"Everything I needed to learn in life I learned from Optimus Prime."

Rule #1 : Always try to help a friend redeem himself from a past mistake.

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"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"

- Monty Python & The Holy Grail

This isn't from the same people who sent you the "NASA" email, by any chance?

And the US Postal Service is not funded in any way by the US Government. Why do you think stamp rates keep going up? *LOL*

Back to the topic at hand.... Sorta... *grin@free local calls*

Urban legend:

• appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in varying forms.

• contains elements of humor or horror (the horror often "punishes" someone who flouts society's conventions).

• makes good storytelling.

• does NOT have to be false, although most are.
  ULs often have a basis in fact, but it's their life after-the-fact (particularly in reference to the second and third points) that gives them particular interest."

There. Does that help?

CC: Free local calls? Let's not upset the others with inflammitory speech, shall we?

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"Oh Lucifer!
Oh! Laisse-moi rien qu'une fois
Glisser mes doigts dans les cheveux d'Esmeralda"
--"Belle", Notre Dame de Paris

Possibly the best-kept secret in the U.S. is the existence of nationality-detectors in each and every phone. These detectors immediately recognize when an American is holding the phone.

The main telephone system computer (buried 3 miles under Cheyenne mountain) immediately switches off the billing for any call within a 10-mile radius (more, sometimes MUCH more for government officials). If a foreighner chances to pick up a phone anywhere in America, the call is routed by the most complex means imaginable, resulting in phone bills which are incredibly difficult to decipher.

Contrary to popular belief, the breakup of the monopoly of ATT in the United States was a carefully-crafted fiction. In actuality, The Phone Company is a branch of the CIA's vast intelligence-gathering apparatus.

All calls are scanned for conversational threads which may prove of interest to the CIA. They are kept in an archive deep beneath the ground at an abandoned nuclear test site, the specific location of which I never had the clearance to know.

you see: It pays to become a naturalized citizen.

I shall now calmly wait for the phone police to carry me away. It was nice knowing you all.

This forum will self-destruct in 15 seconds.

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"The President's Analyst" was a documentary.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

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--Baloo