Two-Line Phaones?

Yeah, so I spelled phones wrong...

Anyway, on my home planet, purchasing a two-line phone does not automatically give a consumer two phone lines. Usually, a little something called NYNEX needs to be called to install said second line. So HOW THE HELL did Jerry get into that mix-up?

Oh, BTW, at NYU, the way it usually works is that the school papers' "journalists" steal their stories (and photos) from the _Post_, not the other way around.

--Aaron New York by choice...New York University by mistake

Al Roker is God.

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Actually, my dad was in this exact situation at his house. He had a single-line phone in the kitchen on one line, and a single-line phone in the office on the other line. Bought a two-line phone, and bingo! Two lines accessible from the office.

Rich Simoni

p.s. In the interest of saving bandwidth, I suggest we begin using the abbreviation NTTAWWT :-)

True, true, but then, Seinfeld doesn't have to make perfect sense. But then, perhaps the reason both Kramer and Elain thought of buying a two-line phone was because there was a second line installed. But then, what was he doing before?

Actually, the New York Times, I recall, once stole a story from the NYU student paper. A while ago, there was a Times article about this 12-year old attending NYU, a sort of real-live Doogie Howser. This story instantly became NEWS on all the other papers and TV shows because, well, if the NYT says it's important, it is. It seems that the article on this kid originally appeared in the NYU paper some months ago, and was not really news to NYU students.

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[email] (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:

No, the Times didn't steal it from NYU. In fact, the first big story about the kid appeared in the _Washington Square News_ (NYU's paper) approximately two days AFTER the Times story. It seems everyone on campus knew about the kid EXCEPT the WSN. I mean, seriously, the paper is so bad that the Journalism Department steadfastly refuses to "sponsor" it in any way, though there is usually one prof who's willing to help "guide" them on his own time. (The first story on the kid actually appeared in _NYU Today_, a slick biweekly paper put out by the Public Affairs office.

FWIW, the kid might have been mentally 18-20, but emotionally he was still a 13-yr-old. A friend of mine was his lab partner in Organic Chemistry, and whenever the slightist thing would go wrong with an experiment, he'd start crying. His grades were only B's and C's from what I heard. That's amazing for a 13-y-old, of course, but nothing special compared to students in general.

--Aaron

I think there's enough crimes around Washington Square Park to keep the guys at Loeb busy, there's no needed to steal anymore stories. ;-)

And as a former NYU student who tutored that "wonder kid" a couple of hours on "Intro. to Programming using Pascal", I have this to say, "He's no Doogie". ;-)

He even brought his dad into the computer lab to help him! ;-) really, I am serious. then again, most 12 yearsold probably do the same under the circumstances.

Sure I admit he studied very hard, and would beat me with eyes closed in those killer "remember it or you're out" pre-med courses, he's smart, he's fast, his parents pressured him, but he's not brilliant.

As usual, NYU paper blew him out of proportion, just like in the Jerry Seinfeld case. ;-)