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Published December 19, 2006 03:47 pm - Wacky technology or life-threatening device? By Clarice Doyle A week ago ....
Claremore’s local Red Cross super hero — known to those who are in the know as Mark Ogle — was showing off a new cell phone accessory. No blue tooth, purple tooth or green tooth technology here. Just a dated black telephone handset pulled directly from his suit jacket pocket. “Holy, Blackjack! What is that?” someone asked incredulously. “My answer to technology,” Ogle replied. “And it only cost $12.99.” He demonstrated how the archaic communication device has been adapted to plug directly into his razor-thin cell phone hanging at hip level. With a smooth twist of his wrist he slips the receiver out of his inside jacket pocket, clicks a button to receive a call and places it to his ear, all the time talking non stop. “Yeah, really!” he tells his audience of two. “You can order it right out of a magazine. This is the cheap one. Now I’ll tell you, it does have an echo. That’s what my wife said. But, they do have a more expensive model. It’s $29.99. I’m sure it’s probably better.” A few days later ... Ogle stops in, again. “Guess you saw those copies I left on your desk,” he said, referring to catalog sheets showing samples of Cell-Phone Receivers (”retro” handsets emulating antiquity) available through a specialty sales company. The grimace on his face belied his former enthusiasm. “Well, I gotta tell you, mine quit working,” he reluctantly admitted. “You gotta be kidding,” came the reply. “Yeah, when I’m talking I can hear them, but they can’t hear me,” he said. Hmmmm ... There’s a lesson here. Actually, it’s a biblical lesson. Something about mixing old things with new things (see Matthew 9:16-24). 
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