myerston@cts.sri.com (08/21/90)
Re: The claims of emergency Cellular coverage on the PA Turnpike. 1. Experience has shown that, just as in the real world, any claim of the First, Last, and Only whatevers are likely to be bogus and open to challenge. A search of the archives will reveal, for example, numerous claims of "The Last Cordboard", "The Last Magneto Phone" etc. All are bogus without a long list of qualifiers. (For example there are still hundreds of each left in places like the military). 2. The best ways to prolong a thread endlessly are: (A) For someone to use the key phrase "FINAL WORD" and (B) For Patrick to announce he is closing the topic.