With ubiquity of cell phones today, many people need to take a lesson in proper cell phone etiquette. This problem is keenly noticeable when you mix bathrooms with Cell Phones. So I’ve provided a handy little numbered list of Rules of Etiquette for Cell Phone Use in a Public Bathroom:

1. If you are on the phone, don’t enter the bathroom. Finish up your call and then head in. If it is urgent (the bathroom visit, not the call), then tell the person you will have to call them back and the proceed to take care of business. Nobody wants you hanging around in the bathroom talking on your phone. Creep.
2. Phones and urinals don’t mix. Period.
3. If you are riding the porcelain throne and the phone rings, don’t answer it! I promise you that the caller really doesn’t want to hear those noises while they are talking to you. And nobody in the bathroom with you wants to hear your call either. We came in there to take care of business and be left alone. If it is important, they will leave a message or call back later. And I promise you, if you are talking on the phone and I am in the other stall, the person you are talking to WILL hear my noises…
4. MAJOR PET PEEVE ALERT: Don’t just let your phone ring if you aren’t going to answer it. This goes for everywhere, not just in the bathroom. Every cell phone made has some way of turning off the ringer while receiving an incoming call. Figure out how yours works and USE IT. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to hear Spanish Flea over and over again when I know that you aren’t going to answer the call? Just silence it and save us all some trouble.
5. If you are going to surf the web or play games on your phone while on the john, please turn the noises off. We don’t want to hear you responding to e-mails on your blackberry while making a deposit…

Really people, this is all pretty much common sense!

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– Author Unknown

How do you pronounce punctuation? You are probably already familiar with some of the pronunciations from your telephone: #as pound, * as star. And from e-mail you get @ as at.

But computer programmers have been at this for a long time. Punctuation marks have a very important role in writing computer programs and as an extension how computer programmers communicate. So they came up with some shortcuts. Like that ! is pronounced bang. Or . is dot. I’ve heard people call ~ twiddle. Yesterday at work we were discussing why Dave called $ String. My guess is that it was from basic programming, and a quick check of the ASCII entry in the Jargon File proved me correct.

So back to our poem. The transliteration of the poem is as follows:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat tick dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka number four,
Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH.

– Author Unknown

Read the full post of Punctuation Poems here: http://www.feep.net/~roth/geek-humor/misc/punctuation-poem.

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