Keep Telling Yourself: Above All, It's a Phone.
Manufacturers are not only making smaller, lighter phones, but they are
also adding features that make yesterday's models look like the clunky
communicators on old "Star Trek" episodes. By Ken Belson. [New York Times: Technology]
I'm not so much interested in the article I've linked to here, as the quotation from the article above.
*Pauses to put on fake plastic pointy ears, spandex uniform and pudding-bowl wig*
Clunky? Clunky? Pah!
Pah!
Listen, bucko, when did you ever see this happen in a Star Trek episode?
INT. CAVE ON ZARPHOON FOUR, DAY
Kirk
Mr. Spock, I'll grab
Gramox and you tell Mr. Scott to beam us both up. Make sure he has
Security waiting with phasers set to stun in the transporter room.
Spock
Affirmative, Captain.
Kirk leaps out from behind rock and grabs Gramox. They begin to fight. Spock fiddles with his communicator.
Mr Scott? Hello? Hello? Damn.
Kirk
(Now in a headlock.)
Anytime now would be great, Mr Spock.
Spock
No signal. Sorry
Captain. I think it's because were in a cave, you know, underground. On
a planet with no cellphone system, now I come to think of it. And a
...low battery. Damn. I knew I should have charged it last night. Could
I borrow yours? Maybe if I stand over here...
(Now being sat on and having his face pounded into the cave floor)
Ooooof! Uuung!
Spock
Maybe I can send a text.
You get the idea.
9:22:17 AM 
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