MrFilthyIke
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Mark said:You beat me to it, but the line is, "Last time I heard from diaglo, three ponies were killed..."
Here we see a young diaglo on his morning paper route...
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Here we see a young diaglo on his morning paper route...
MrFilthyIke
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Krieg said:
From what I hear, the dice porter...I mean, what's under that garb??
der_kluge
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I'll second the vote for Virgin Mobile. I used to have Cingular, and while I was ok with it, even if I didn't use it (which was most months), I still had to pay like $30 a month for it. So, I got rid of it, and went to Virgin. Virgin does indeed utilize Sprint's network. And while the Virgin pamphlets are geared towards a generation which resembles nothing of my own, I'm quite pleased with the phone, and the service.
Virgin works like this: You buy the phone, and you can set it up on their website. Then using your credit card, you can "top up" (their term) the account with $30. You have to keep it "topped up" every so often, like once every 3 months. There's no roaming, no monthly bill, no long-distance, no minutes. You pay $0.25 for the first 10 minutes, and $0.10 after that. So, if you do the math, you wouldn't want to be yacking on this thing for long periods of time. It would end up costing more in the long run. But if you don't currently have a phone, and are wanting one for just emergencies, there isn't a better option out there, IMHO.
p.s. Henry, looks like you're about to hit the big 5 digit post count!
Virgin works like this: You buy the phone, and you can set it up on their website. Then using your credit card, you can "top up" (their term) the account with $30. You have to keep it "topped up" every so often, like once every 3 months. There's no roaming, no monthly bill, no long-distance, no minutes. You pay $0.25 for the first 10 minutes, and $0.10 after that. So, if you do the math, you wouldn't want to be yacking on this thing for long periods of time. It would end up costing more in the long run. But if you don't currently have a phone, and are wanting one for just emergencies, there isn't a better option out there, IMHO.
p.s. Henry, looks like you're about to hit the big 5 digit post count!
MrFilthyIke
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Henry said:*Ahem* uh, guys - cell phone conversation?
In ye olde dayes...that was speedy communication.
Darth K'Trava
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Krieg said:
ROFLMAO
And here I was expecting someone to show a pic of the "bag phones" that came out in the early 90s....
Personally, if one was to talk alot and risk going over their minutes, then they should see how that thing Sprint has with the 100 additional minutes for $5 works with a plan.... I suggested that to my aunt for her son but he'd already locked in a plan to get a phone for $50... I'm not sure if that can be added onto an existing plan or what...
diaglo
Adventurer
Henry said:*Ahem* uh, guys - cell phone conversation?
being in the lab whenever i see cell... i think of my microscope. arrgghhh..
i got my wife a Cingular account for emergency use only. it costs darn near what our regular phone service costs per month.
and when she uses it... Dang...
so my advice is limited with my limited experience. but i would definitely not be promoting Cingular.
also... being in the gov't ... now whenever i hear cell... i think of splinters.
Dimwhit
Explorer
Cingular has rollover minutes. They wipe out every year, I think, but there isn't much chance of going over on the minutes.Darth K'Trava said:
When it comes down to it, though, most major cell companies are going to have very similar plans for about the same amount, give or take $10.
My wife had a bad experience with Verizon, and refuses to ever consider them again.
She had a cell phone out in Ohio. They gave her a deal and she asked, very clearly, if the same deal woudl hold when she moved to Boston a year later. She was told, very clearly, that it would.
Lo and behold, when she moves to Boston, they tell her she has a choice - pay huge charges for always calling out of her local calling area, or change her local calling area, which would require a new, more expensive plan.
Intentionally or not, the effect was a bait-and-switch.
We have now switched to Sprint. No complaints, but then, no issues have arisen that required our doing anything other than paying our monthly bill.
She had a cell phone out in Ohio. They gave her a deal and she asked, very clearly, if the same deal woudl hold when she moved to Boston a year later. She was told, very clearly, that it would.
Lo and behold, when she moves to Boston, they tell her she has a choice - pay huge charges for always calling out of her local calling area, or change her local calling area, which would require a new, more expensive plan.
Intentionally or not, the effect was a bait-and-switch.
We have now switched to Sprint. No complaints, but then, no issues have arisen that required our doing anything other than paying our monthly bill.
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