{"id":338,"date":"2012-08-07T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:48:06","slug":"the-wayback-machine-and-haunted-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"The Wayback Machine and Haunted Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

My kids have been watching hours and hours of “Rocky & Bullwinkle<\/a>” this summer, and I couldn’t be prouder.<\/p>\n

By far my favorite segment is Mr. Peabody and Sherman, where the world’s smartest dog<\/a> takes his affable boy Sherman on trips back through time in his WABAC Machine (Wayback) to see improbable events in history. I guess I love the Fractured Fairy Tales, too. And Boris and Natasha. Okay, well, all of it. It’s hilarious. Where did they get that awesome narrator, I ask you?<\/p>\n

Well, allow me to take readers of this blog on a little trip down memory lane by use of the wayback machine and introduce you to my cell phone.<\/p>\n

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Takes you back, doesn’t it?<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s not a bad little phone<\/a>. I’ve had it for years and years, and it costs me about $5 a month to use it. I just recharge its minutes once a year, and I’m set.\u00a0It sends and recieves phone calls and texts. Not a “Smartie Phone” (as Dan calls them on “The Good Guys<\/a>“) but it works fine, and you can’t shake a stick at the price.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

On Saturday I was walking through WalMart, and somehow it synched with someone else’s phone. Or got infected. Or possessed. It now thinks it only speaks Spanish and wants to receive a lot of texts for someone called Amber. I don’t speak Spanish, or read it much, so I can’t figure out how to teach it English again.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to soothe my pain, I guess I’ll plunk down and watch an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle with the kids. Did you hear they’re doing a Mr. Peabody and Sherman movie<\/a>? It supposedly comes out in Fall of 2013! Very fun.<\/p>\n

Which reminds me, I got a fab review<\/a> of BIG IN JAPAN<\/a>\u00a0on Amazon.\u00a0I totally loved this line: “Books this good get made into movies.” Sweeeeet.<\/p>\n\n

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