AT&T Logo: Did You Ever Notice..?

I've heard it often, although it was more common in the 80s, before the Ma Bell breakup, when AT&T was the "Evil Empire". (I also have a vague recollection of a Bloom County strip...)

 

Yeah, but Verizon has Darth Vader working for them...

-Jay

 

even though they are different companies Cellco Partnership (VZW) is certainly the Dark Side of wireless.
If only some of you knew the power of Dark side wireless.

 

Speaking of the darkside of wireless. Anybody know who was contracted to build the death star? General Dynamics or Bechtel?

 

I thought Suncom was the dark side of Wireless.

-Jay

 

Moto, i like to get a job where you work, reminds me of my old "super posting" days...:lmao:

 

Yeah, My "Super Posting" days have been over for a while now too.

-Jay

 

you had a 1/2 year head start before me though...does the roaming zone count btw? :lmao:

 

I remember something with Bloom County about this as well, Maybe I should dig up some of the books I have & see if I can find it.
Maybe this is where the Dark side got the idea to make a death star :lmao:

 

I give that up anyday to be able to drive my car at least at 60 MPH on the freeway to get to work...

 

A four lane divide highway with no exit ramps it called an expressway

 

Here in Va we have Interstates, Highways, Parkways, "The Toll Road", and the dreaded DC Beltway...

-Jay

 

Just like us in NJ but we have the GSP and NJ TRPK which can be bad, but I don't think they compare to the DC Beltway.

 

Fire - to be fair, we have "The Turnpike", "The Parkway"/"The Garden State" (it's rare that you hear "Garden State Parkway" in anything but traffic reports...), some expressways (The ACE, for one), interstate highways, and some "freeways" (and only because there are signs that say "freeway ends" as you near their terminus).

And I'll agree that the Beltway in DC is bad, but try this for fun: try to explain to someone from out of state how to get from New York City to Philadelphia, and why they can't 'just' take I-95 straight down. Be sure to stand back while their head explodes.

 

Blame the NJ NIMBYs in the 60s and 70s for that !

 

Soon 95 will be the turnpike to exit 6, then pennsylanvia turnpike to the present 95 near philly.

Princeton township was the reason why I 95 was cancelled thru somerset county. Mind you princeton is not is somerset county.. Now people are complaining about congestion on routes 202 and 206, which would have been made secondary to the interstate.

 

Oh, I know all this already, courtesy of growing up in the area - phillyroads.com filled in the gaps in my memory. (And, incidentally, it was pretty much all of the Hopewell Valley, not just Princeton Township that NIMBYed the I-95 hookup to death.)

Of course, when the I-95/PA Turnpike interchange is finally complete in about 5 years, the section of I-95 between Rt. 1 in Lawrenceville NJ and Philadelphia Park will be resigned as I-295 - and don't ask me how they'll deal with the whole direction-reversal issue. Oy. Now my head hurts, and we're horribly off topic.

 

haha this is great, i never thought of it that way...

 

Someone brought back this thread from two months ago, but your comment is so true, it's hillarious. The voice of Darth Vader is James Earl Jones, the same guy that you see on Verizon DSL commercials.

 

It's been referred to as the "death star" for years!

 

James Earl Jones has not worked for Verizon for a good while now.

 

<looks at Dark Side Wireless phone>

(sees one bar of signal)

Doesn't look too powerful to me. :rotfl:

 

Yeah, but as mentioned earlier this is an old thread.

 

bobolito mentioned it yesterday!

 

Don't forget the Black Horse Pike and White Horse Pike