Never liked Nokia, for some reason, but given that I mostly use my phone to make calls (and occasionally to surf the web, if I’m really desperate) it would actually be sufficient for my needs. Ah well, the old one still works, and maybe in time someone will start a trend towards smaller handsets again.
Anyone remember the street prank show Trigger Happy TV? I think that elevated the nokia ring tone into cult status, because for a long time you would hear complete strangers when they hear the tune loudly shout “HELLOOOOOOOOOO???”
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I liked the music on that show, too. Lots of Eels IIRC. It gave it a nice surreal quality.
Yep, since watching this show I too had always the urge to shout “HELLOOO” whenever I heard the Nokia tune.
Good thing this tune isn’t that popular anymore. And also a little bit sad.
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Wasn´t it like the ending of a Sibelius tune or something, though?
false alarm of smoke detectors in the middle of the night.
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My parents know that problem now since they had to install one and that only goes off when it´s false alarm.
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Snow in November! 
My personal record was mid-october 9 years ago.
Aptly I then visited Hitler´s bavarian mountain headquarters in the snow. #atmosphere
Summer temperatures in November!
(@yrface: Can we swap? You get the summer and I get the snow?)
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Even worse summer during the day and winter at night! I wish I could finally leave the dial of the heating alone!
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We have several (cheap) detectors in the house. They are communicating and starting the alarm as soon as one of them starts. But we have to stop each of them.
btw: smoke detectors are very useful!
I guess so. Someone I know told me a story about having been woken up by a firefighter who was leaning over his bed, because they had detected smoke in his flat. Turned out an old defect cable had started to burn and smoke filled almost the whole place so the neighbors called the firefighters.
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Gladly! Though I must admit the snow was beautiful as it covered the red and yellow leaves yesterday…
but it turns drivers into idiots and then I spend an extra 2 hours getting my daughter to school. 
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Isn’t that true for/with several other weather conditions?
This is true (of most weather conditions actually). I’ll just start using a yellow crystal to teleport instead.
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You think your daughter would be fine going to school in a cave in Lima?
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Hmm, i think she’d prefer Atlantis. I’ll have to make sure she packs her kazoo though.
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Clever! That way you don´t have to mind picking her up again, if the Dolphin cares for it!
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