Hi Mary, I have Tall Telephone. I'm not sure how many I have. I have enough for a trade maybe a bit more. I'll have to check later. I'm interested in your Scarlet Globe Mallow. Remy

hee! I consider myself a phone book disposal expert! ha! Last year I collected over 100 phone books from the recycling bin at the condo. I laid most of them out as the base for raised beds (June). I layered grass and leaves, coffee grounds etc etc etc. By november, they were soft enough that a small garden shovel would easily pierce them. Lots and lots of funky mushrooms grew last summer. I know there are those that would think that whacky, as I laid them out whole. The soil beneath them was hard, full of tree roots, gray dry compacted impossible to dig(somehow all the maple tree seeds that dropped down were germinating--go figure). In November I emptied dozens of bags of leaves and grass clippings on top. Im hoping to actually be able to use these beds in the spring. Well see..... Some others we ran thru the shredder and put in the compost and they disappeared like nothing. Some we tore by up hand and they took just a bit longer than the shredded ones--all gone. Coloring books and puzzle books go quickly also. I hoping that my worms will need health club memberships as they'll all be nice and fat. The girls will be needing workouts after making all those babies.

Replies are only as useful as facts first provided. For example, you mention a line cord. Is that an AC power cord? Phone line? Headset? If the phone is shorting telephone lines, than the phone is defective. Unreported is what that phone is doing. Reported is that other phones do not work. Do not work when an incoming call should cause a ring? Terminates a dialtone after 20 seconds even when on hook? Eliminates the dialtone immediately? Anyone can say the phone is probably defective. Nobody (and be honest) can say anything more. But then what are you trying to do? Fix a $10 phone? Or determine if the phone is good enough to create arson?

We just ditched one of our two landlines in favor of a free T-Mobile cell (two year contract) at $39.99/month for the cell and $9.99/month for the hot-spot (wifi) service. We live in a valley with almost zero bars for all cell phones carriers in our house. Besides this service, the only option for quality cellular from our home was to spend the time and money to setup antennas and transmitters/receivers. It works great (in our low bar situation) with land line quality over our broadband 1.5 mb/s Linksys wireless Hotspot router (free after rebhate) and no dropped calls. It also worked with our Ativa wireless router. Other users with moderate to good cell reception at home have reported dropped calls when the phone tries to switch from wifi to cell. Of course, you can also use this cell phone on other unsecured wi-fi networks like libraries, some motels, strip mall stores, or on your neighbor's connection! I don't konw why all cell phone carrier don't offer wifi phones. Maybe wimax will replace this soon? We don't have it, but for $5.99/month extra you can get a data plan to allow you to use your bluetooth cellphone (Samsung T-339) as a modem for a notebook computer or PDA that have internal bluetooth or an external adapter. Or you can use the simple internet browser on the phone. I believe this is the cheapest data plan out there for those who need email and internet on the road. I don't talk as much on the cell, and so I have a pre-paid STI mobile (Sprint) phone which is around $5-7/mo. for my low level of usage. We still have one AT&T landline at home for my business and it runs around $25/month. I use the pre-paid calling cards for long distance and the rate is $.029/min. It assigns the pin number to the line, so all you have to do is speed dial the 800 number. It also shows your home phone number on others' caller ID. COOL!