Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think of the telephone purely as a secular voice thrower, it arrives in the mind at its most irritating. For example, no one has yet devised a pleasant way for a telephone to come to life. The ring is a sudden intrusion, a drill in the ear. Pavlov's dog hears and picks the damned thing up. The Satanic bleats from some new phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones...
...Everyone did really well," Sophomore thrower Catherine Griffen said. "We were expecting the meet to be a lot closer than...