(And by telephone I mean the kind God intended us to use, a regular old
land line, not those Dick Tracy cell-phone thingies.)

Client has a bunch of phones in their house. Starting a few days ago,
several of them don't work; pick them up, no dial tone. (Confirmed with
a good set which I used to test all the jacks.)

But get this: while I was there, at least one of the phones that doesn't
work (a wireless phone) rang on an incoming call. WTF?!?!? It rang, but
when picked up--nothing, dead. No dial tone trying to make a call.

Anyone familiar with the inner mysteries of the telephone system care to
try to 'splain this? How could a phone not work, but still ring on an
incoming call?


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The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring,
with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.

- Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)