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Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

The digital clock on the front perpetually says 3:38, even when it open it and it should say "Cingular." And the thing's not even on. The screen inside is blank.

Is there an outside chance you guys know how to fix this? Or should I just go to the store tommorrow?

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Remove the battery and let any residual power totally drain out of it. Then replace the battery and see if you can power it off after that.

It may be locked up, just like a computer. I've seen it happen.

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Hmm, thanks. I'll give it a shot.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

We've been watching season 3 of SG-1, so I read this title and immediately thought of your cell phone in the hands of this guy. [Laugh]

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

ALL cellphones are possessed by the Great Satan. Yours is just being a little bit more obvious about it.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

[Eek!]

So, we've been giving the Goa'ould information about our personal lives every time we use a cell phone?

Oh, wait. We've probably either destroyed them with boredom and inanity or convinced them that we're insane and harmless by now.

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

Yes.

And yes.

Actually, it's much more subtle (subtler?) than that. The Great Satan in all cellphones sets up a field in which you cease to find anything wrong with endlessly rude, boorish behavior. [Big Grin]

NB: I am quite prejudiced.

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

quote:
ALL cellphones are possessed by the Great Satan.

Megan, ya beat me to it.

I hate the damn things. [Razz]

Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :

Hmm. I'd recommend contacting a Catholic priest for an exorcism. Even though I'm not Catholic, I've seen the movie and I know that when you've got demon and Satan problems, you go to a Catholic Priest.

I don't know, though...we do have actual, ordained ministers here on the `Rack...but they aren't Catholic. Dagonee is Catholic. I'm not sure what TV would want me to recommend here! [Angst]

Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :

But he is a lawyer, right? Doesn't that give him some sort of power over evil spirits?

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

He's also of Irish descent, isn't he? The Irish lawyer outsmarted the devil, remember? Maybe he can do it.

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

Maybe ONE cellphone...but can he outsmart the devils in ALL the cellphones? That'd keep him awfully busy.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

No, Megan, I mean THE devil, and he'd have to call off his minions.

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

Ah, ok, then. So, we're sending Dag into some sort of apocalyptic battle. Hmm. Maybe we should tell him.

nah. [Big Grin]

Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

I used to think Satan was in my cell phone. Then I met Dick Cheney and realized he could never fit inside.

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

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But he is a lawyer, right? Doesn't that give him some sort of power over evil spirits?

I thought that meant he is one step from being an evil spirit.

Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :

I think it means he can speak the demon's language, is all...

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

I think it's more like a colleague type of relationship. Like, I have power over my colleagues in that I have quite a bit in common with them.

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

One is so easily seduced to the Dark Side . . . especially when they speak the same language and become colleagues . . .
[Big Grin]