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1 posted on 04/05/2005 12:28:08 PM PDT by billorites
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I have droppefd my phone so many times on pavement I can't count them and it still works just fine. I haven't dropped it in the crapper though.


2 posted on 04/05/2005 12:33:07 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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Man, this is way too much information. Must have been a slow news day.

Anyone ever drop anything else into the toilet? Call the Milwaukee Journal, they may want to do a feature article on you.
3 posted on 04/05/2005 12:33:29 PM PDT by Fido969
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This is one thing that won't be happening to me. I don't do cell phones.


5 posted on 04/05/2005 12:36:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: billorites

Lexi Phillips sounds like a natural blonde.


6 posted on 04/05/2005 12:36:46 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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Lexi? Gad, I hope this ditz with the so-hip name isn't also a blonde. That would just add to my on-going battle for credibility.


7 posted on 04/05/2005 12:37:06 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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"But after pulling it out of there after a few days, well, I really wouldn't have wanted to use it anyway," he said.

Executive material, that boy is.

8 posted on 04/05/2005 12:37:27 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: billorites

My picture cell phone has made it twice through the wash and spin cycle and one through the dryer with nary a scratch. Now I check my little cell phone pocket in my jacket before I wash it.


9 posted on 04/05/2005 12:38:39 PM PDT by Catphish
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To: billorites

'Can' you hear me now?


11 posted on 04/05/2005 12:40:28 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: billorites
I work in the Telecom field and deal with this a LOT.

FYI if you do happen do drop your phone in water (of any sort).

1 - Get it out as fast as you can.

2 - Immediately remove the battery.

3 - shake and swing it around, trying to force as much water out as fast as possible.

4 - Let it air dry in a warm, not hot, environment for several days at least.

5 - Keep your fingers crossed, plug the battery back in and hope for the best.

I have found that if you do these steps, it will recover most cell phones with no apparent damage.

However, if you dropped it into the WC with other types of "liquids" or even worse, solids, all bets are off.

Not that you would get me even contemplating putting it up close to my face after THAT anyway.

Cheers,

knews hound
14 posted on 04/05/2005 12:48:37 PM PDT by knews_hound (Out of the NIC ,into the Router, out to the Cloud....Nothing but 'Net)
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Hubby likes to drop his in the bucket he uses to wash tile off. It still works but now he has to charge it everynight.


15 posted on 04/05/2005 12:50:41 PM PDT by linn37 (Have you hugged your Phlebotomist today?)
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Last time I was in an airport restroom, the woman in the stall next to me was gabbing on the phone. And no, she wasn't saying she couldn't talk at the moment, she was yakking on and on about nothing in particular. You have to wonder about people who have to be in constant contact with someone else, even when taking a crap.


16 posted on 04/05/2005 12:51:34 PM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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LOL, my husband ran over his with a 1 ton truck but one in 13 yrs isn't too bad.
They won't even sell my son insurance anymore because he's destroyed so many. He works in construction and he's buried them, run over them and dropped them into ditches full of water.


19 posted on 04/05/2005 12:57:26 PM PDT by tiki (Won one against the Flipper)
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Worst I've ever done was to drop mine into a bucket of solvents (xylene) when working on my car in the garage.


26 posted on 04/05/2005 1:23:32 PM PDT by sc2_ct (Veritas Aequitas)
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Do you remember the article in the paper a few years ago about the Kenyan? woman who dropped her cell into a deep outdoor toilet. Three men died trying to retrieve it for her or rescue the guys already down there. They were overcome by deadly fumes. After reading that one, this doesn't seem too bad.


27 posted on 04/05/2005 1:24:28 PM PDT by Arkie2
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Hee hee hee...


29 posted on 04/05/2005 1:27:15 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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... I reached for my phone in my short pocket to answer it," he said.

Al Gore invented pockets on undershorts. Blame him.

30 posted on 04/05/2005 1:29:01 PM PDT by FreedomFarmer (Socialism is not an ideology, it is a disease. Eliminate the vectors.)
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"but I'm a butterfingers I guess. . . .

That wasn't butter...

32 posted on 04/05/2005 1:40:29 PM PDT by Androcles (All your typos are belong to us)
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