On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Anders Hultman wrote:
Malcolm Smith:
Now come on, every one likes flying - it's crashing that people don't like.
What other form of travel could bang on about how safe it is and insist that
people depart from something called a 'terminal'?
Bus terminals, ferry terminals and even train terminals have already been mentioned. May I remind you that the telecom industry calls the cell phones we carry around "terminals" as well. The socket where you connect the speaker cables to your ampifier are called terminals, and some of us computer users sit in front of terminals, too.
and for us in front of the terminals, it is an appropriate description quite a lot of days...
cell phones - considered (not so much these days now the scaremongering has dies down) dangerous
amplifiers - er...there's electricity in there, that's dangerous. right?
billy (trying hard to make a link)
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