He's gotta have an anonymous tryst with some homosexual?" A caller pointed out that straight people also take sexual risks.
On one radio show, a caller pointed out the moment in the Times story when Seltzer, now contrite, explained to the reporter that she "wrote the book 'sitting at the Starbucks' in South Central where 'I would talk to kids who were Black Panthers and kids who were gang members and kids who were not.' " Black Panthers?
Four couples stand in a square, as a "caller" shouts out standardized moves dancers respond to with in-time precision; it's as much a collaborative game of human Bop-It as it is choreography.
When properly configured, the Bluetooth-enabled speakerphone uploads a cellphone's address book and announces the name of the caller out loud.
When pressed, he explained that he'd helped the woman caller out financially.
Bronx Gorilla Man To Minnesota Zoo On the Minnesota Zoo's automated telephone directory, one of those systems with a mechanized voice that instructs a caller to spell out the name of the person he or she wants to reach using the keys on the telephone, punching "Ehmke" yesterday set off a message that said those letters "do not spell a recognized name".
If a caller moves out of range -- one to seven miles, depending on local terrain and traffic volume, a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman said -- the cellphone's signal is normally picked up by another antenna.
A livid caller lashed out at Mr. Evanzz, an on-line editor at The Washington Post.
The skill needed to meld speech recognition software with algorithms that peg a caller's personality, it turned out, are similar to those used by some sophisticated Wall Street firms to pick stocks.
Adding Internet phones to the communications mix only heightens what is already a challenge to the modern caller: figuring out where and how to reach a friend who has a home phone, a work number, a cellphone, a beeper, a fax line, a Web site and an e-mail address.
Inside the house, a dozen callers spread out on the stairs, on the sofa and chairs, at the dining room table and in the kitchen.
