Got me hoping you’ll page me right now

Scrote said:
It's okay - I've taken a steer from this thread and reworked it completely:

I dialled you on my cell
did you not hear the bell
I needed someone to pick up
to arrange horseless carriage pick up

(duplicate rhymes are the in thing)

The songs called "Where's My Effing Taxi"
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I think it’s worth noting that Beyoncé formally aknowledges several times that her mental state may be unusual at best., I think this needs to be taken into consideration.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
Even @r00fie1 had a Nokia then. winky.
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I`ve still got and use my nokia 3310, but I`ve had an upgrade from 18 years ago with this LG KG275
The small photo is its original incarnation, but by six months later it had a luxurious upgrade which is more aethetically pleasing.

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Its not a great photograph because its taken using a Kodak fixed-lens camera from 2006.
The flash isnt activated using light-sensitivety. It uses two "AA" replacable batteries, but it can take reasonable pictures, once you get the hang of it. Like the Nokia, its held together by screws and clips and dries off really well if you drop it in water or leave it out in the rain
 
r00fie1 said:
I`ve still got and use my nokia 3310, but I`ve had an upgrade from 18 years ago with this LG KG275
The small photo is its original incarnation, but by six months later it had a luxurious upgrade which is more aethetically pleasing.

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Its not a great photograph because its taken using a Kodak fixed-lens camera from 2006.
The flash isnt activated using light-sensitivety. It uses two "AA" replacable batteries, but it can take reasonable pictures, once you get the hang of it. Like the Nokia, its held together by screws and clips and dries off really well if you drop it in water or leave it out in the rain
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Have you ever thought about putting on Basic, Better and Best on the Antiques Road Show, I'm sure Arthur Negus would love to see it.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
Have you ever thought about putting on Basic, Better and Best on the Antiques Road Show, I'm sure Arthur Negus would love to see it.
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The owd blighter would be nearly 122 were he still with us.
He might have been interested in the ATA 12 I had, when I used a land-line.
I got rid of both about five years ago.
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Perhaps she was working for Amazon at the time, where using internal tools there's the opportunity to "page" someone, which effectively sends a text message to their mobile phone (which is obviously just a text message) but uses the nomenclature "paging"?
 
It's not in the realm of impossibility, as in 2003 Nokia was still belting out basic phones with numpads. Maybe celebs didn't bother thumbing messages on mobiles when you can just call a number and tell them the message.

But it's more likely just lag, the album was originally started recording in 2000 and finished in 2002/2003, so it was probably written in 1999/2000/2001/2002 and by then cemented as the line they were going with as probably didn't seem a huge deal
 
Per Wikipedia:

Pagers were developed in the 1950s and 1960s,[3] and became widely used by the 1980s through the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Still being used in hospitals etc in the USA.
 
Returning to the original question Judy Garland sang a song in 1940 called Paging Mr Greenbank. Pretty sure there were no pagers or mobile phones around then. Either Judy Garland, or specifically the lyricist of that song, was a genius who could see into the future, or "paging" can generally mean a call out.
 
Zoophonic said:
Returning to the original question Judy Garland sang a song in 1940 called Paging Mr Greenbank. Pretty sure there were no pagers or mobile phones around then. Either Judy Garland, or specifically the lyricist of that song, was a genius who could see into the future, or "paging" can generally mean a call out.
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or something muckier!
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Perhaps she was working for Amazon at the time, where using internal tools there's the opportunity to "page" someone, which effectively sends a text message to their mobile phone (which is obviously just a text message) but uses the nomenclature "paging"?
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She’d have struggled to juggle a job at Amazon (or in a hospital) alongside being in Destiny’s Child though wouldn’t she?
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
It's not in the realm of impossibility, as in 2003 Nokia was still belting out basic phones with numpads. Maybe celebs didn't bother thumbing messages on mobiles when you can just call a number and tell them the message.

But it's more likely just lag, the album was originally started recording in 2000 and finished in 2002/2003, so it was probably written in 1999/2000/2001/2002 and by then cemented as the line they were going with as probably didn't seem a huge deal
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I had a mobile in 1999. If Beyoncé didn’t she was clearly just being one of those people who refuses to have one. We all knew one didn’t we.
 
atypical_boro said:
I had a mobile in 1999. If Beyoncé didn’t she was clearly just being one of those people who refuses to have one. We all knew one didn’t we.
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Seems like it's just terminology

www-nytimes-com.translate.goog

NOTICED; A World Divided Into Two-Way-Pager Camps (Published 2001)

Latest word in personal communictions is two-way pager; Motorola's Timeport is favored by black entertainment and sports personalities, while Al Gore, Bill Gates and other high-tech establishment types enjoy their BlackBerries, made by Research in Motion; photos (M)
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This link (hopefully that works as it'd behind a paywall) shows that "2 way pager devices" from Motorola were popular for real time comms when blackberry was ascending, even calls out it was more popular with black entertainers.

When you Google what a "2 way pager device" is it's basically a phone.


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