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phoner
noun
One who phones.
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But the sombre silence of a movie theatre is hardly likely to deter the dedicated phoner; if anything, it's a good place to talk....Recounts remarks made at the festival by Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Luc Godard.
Andrew Cuomo is still a master schemer and relentless phoner.
There's also an eHarmony technician played by Patton Oswalt, whose relationship with him is another long-distance phoner.
Then the phone bill arrived and we all saw the chatline number itemised, and we all rounded on Joe and, jokingly, accused him of being the phoner, and therefore a transsexual.
Stalin was a phoner quite as much as a phoney; the dictator enjoyed a particularly sinister form of chitchat: the late-night call placed to this or that artist would provide him with the opportunity to grant an imperial boon – in Dimitri Shostakovich's case, a life-saving sinecure that kept the composer afloat in Stalin's bloody flux.
We know better than anyone that it's just the beginning... September 27 , 2013Thomas Erdbrink (@ThomasErdbrink) "Wow this is fantastic!" Armin, an engineer tells me, after I woke him up to tell about historic phoner.
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The mystery is why a private reader in a public space should exude a shared, communal sense of bliss, while that CD Discman listener twisting his shoulders to an unheard beat, and the cell-phoner smiling at something he's been told, spread irritation and loneliness among their riding neighbors.
And cell-phoners, for that matter, too.
He recalls "days of phoners, like: 'Do you have a message for your fans in Brazil?' You spent 90% of your energy trying to reach out to this casual audience who might buy your records; that's what the record company's efforts go into, pushing it beyond its ordinary scope".
But overall, a remarkable thing: a gaspingly low percentage of phoners, especially given just how easy and convenient telephone use can be.
What do you call those people, cell phoners or cell phonies?
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