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[JustDaniel]

Revision 2:

no lines... strung out


A T & T :

'More bars in more places'...

cable guys wasted


© MLee Dickens'son 09 July 2007

Revision 1 title: no lines... strung tight

Original:

air ~ tight & tipsy

A T & T :
more bars in more places;
wasted wireless guy

This post has been edited by Cleo_Serapis: Jul 13 07, 15:34

[JustDaniel]

Dear fellow short-formers,

I've just posted a name-change and revision...

as Snow indicated in a recent piece here, sometimes you have to revise your original idea if you want a comment. I hope this makes a little more sense/scents now ?

in Light of flux, Daniel

[Terocon101]

Hi Daniel,

I think this one was going at the speed of light when it went over my head. A T&T is that the telecom company in the U.S?

'More bars in more places' is that a quote from an ad of theirs or....? Are cable guys in the U.S stereotypical alcoholics, like your postmen are typecast as raging rifle-toting anti-socials??

'Wasted wireless guy' or in your revision 'cable guys wasted', the original and revision are practically the same in my opinion except in Ireland in the 'B&W t.v' days a wireless was a radio.
Cable is t.v.

I'm sorry I'm completely lost, easily done, maybe its a trans-Atlantic thing.

Terry

[JustDaniel]

Hi Daniel,

I think this one was going at the speed of light when it went over my head. A T&T is that the telecom company in the U.S?

I suspected that there would not be a connection across the Pond! Yes, AT&T used to be THE telecommuncations giant, but it was forced to allow competition. It's now a biggie in wireless communication: cell phones.

'More bars in more places' is that a quote from an ad of theirs or....? Are cable guys in the U.S stereotypical alcoholics, like your postmen are typecast as raging rifle-toting anti-socials??

Yes, that is their current slogan. It has to do with the receptivity indicators on phones; the more bars, the more clear the reception on the phone. But here, what you call a 'pub' is called a 'bar' and than makes the slogan, to my ears, sound almost silly.

'Wasted wireless guy' or in your revision 'cable guys wasted', the original and revision are practically the same in my opinion except in Ireland in the 'B&W t.v' days a wireless was a radio.
Cable is t.v.

Well, a cable guy really has to do with television and telephone, so my original idea was a bit off. To us, wireless has to do with cell phones, pagers, IPods and the like, so it's not they who'd be underutilized by AT&T, but the cable guys -- but believe me, there are plenty of jobs for cable guys in actuality. But the wireless guy would be the 'cable guy' that deals with keeping the connectivity available to the customers through whatever maintenance work they do... which might be a bit less if they are arranging for them to visit more pubs.

I'm sorry I'm completely lost, easily done, maybe its a trans-Atlantic thing. Terry

Sorry to have confused you with American English...

Wasted, of course can mean 'not utilized'... but can also mean 'totally drunk' or 'totally high'...

The irony is that I've never had a drink!

sippin' Lightly, Daniel

P.S. I've also just changed the title slightly as 'Revision 2'.

This post has been edited by JustDaniel: Jul 13 07, 14:38

[Terocon101]

HaHa, sorry you had to explain all that, I wasn't sure I understood but it seems I was closer than I thought(thats a lot of 'I's).

Even though it probably wont be my favorite poem of all time, its worthy of commentary as I do like it when big corporations have to surrender their monopolies. Its actually not such a colloquial POV as you might think, the same happened here. Although I'm sure its meant to be a very light-hearted piece, maybe if you tweaked, made it more universal, you could have something.

Catch-ya-later

[JustDaniel]

Thanks, Terry...

In this case, however, the universal can only go so far as AT&T's ad is utilized. It's really at the point of the humor. If ya ain't heard it, it don't make no sense! so to speak.

deLighting in the exchange between two cultures separated by their language, Daniel