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Christina Websell - 27 Jun 2005 23:07 GMT

I saw a little device at the local supermarket that you attach to your car
keys if you've mislaid them, all you do is whistle and it strikes up with a
peeping noise so you can find them.
What a great idea, I thought, and only 97p!!
I always keep my car keys in one place, but what often happens is that I get
distracted before I can get out of the house and put them down again..then
they are lost for about half an hour.
The car key finder is still on the table in its package (with two spare
batteries) and you will soon know why.
I was startled the other morning to hear a noise when I coughed, I thought
it was my mobile phone. Nope, it was the key thingie. Peep, peep, peep, I
thought you whistled. No I didn't. I just COUGHED!

I was washing up and clattered two glass things together. Peep peep peep,
peep peep peep. Again it sounded like a text message on my mobile phone.
No, it was just the keythingie thinking I had lost my keys again.
(just for a smile, I just whistled and it went crazy..)

I think I won't attach it to my keyring after all, I'll just fumble around
like normal.

Tweed

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MaryL - 27 Jun 2005 23:23 GMT

>I saw a little device at the local supermarket that you attach to your car
>keys if you've mislaid them, all you do is whistle and it strikes up with a
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>
> Tweed

Unfortunately, I can't whistle! However, I have seen similar devices
advertised that respond to hand clapping (which I *can* manage ;o) ); that
may explain why yours responded to a cough. Neat idea.

MaryL

Photos of Duffy and Holly: >'o'<
http://tinyurl.com/8y54 (Introducing Duffy to Holly)
http://tinyurl.com/8y56 (Duffy and Holly "settle in")

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Hopitus - 28 Jun 2005 00:39 GMT

Imagine the fun you could have had w/that device in the hospital......(no,
just kidding). Our country's anniversary of declaring our independence from
yours is coming up soon. The older I get, the more I question the wisdom of
that over-200-year-old action...we are here and now taxed w/o
representation, certain religions are hassled, and our federal judicial body
has just announced that if developers plead "for the public good" w/what
they wanna build on YOUR land/home (instead of good old Capital Gain on
their part!) the gov't can seize your land/home and give it to the
developers. This is going on right here, right now in the state I moved here
from, in
a city called Hollywood, FL.Eminent Domain it's called.
Land of the free, home of the brave....Britannia's former colonies are
losing it over here.....LOL.

>>I saw a little device at the local supermarket that you attach to your car
>>keys if you've mislaid them, all you do is whistle and it strikes up with
[quoted text clipped - 29 lines]
> http://tinyurl.com/8y54 (Introducing Duffy to Holly)
> http://tinyurl.com/8y56 (Duffy and Holly "settle in")

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Christina Websell - 28 Jun 2005 23:11 GMT

> Imagine the fun you could have had w/that device in the hospital......(no,
> just kidding). Our country's anniversary of declaring our independence
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> Land of the free, home of the brave....Britannia's former colonies are
> losing it over here.....LOL.

Britain has it's faults, Hopitus, but I am so glad I live here. My land
(now eventually paid for!) is my own.
I have to pay an amount a month for healthcare, and have done since I
started work at 15. It always seemed a lot.
I've only needed to call on it the last five years. Five eye procedures and
now this massive operation and x2 hospitals stays, one an emergency and
there for a week. I dread to think what it would have cost me in the US.

Tweed

>>>I saw a little device at the local supermarket that you attach to your
>>>car keys if you've mislaid them, all you do is whistle and it strikes up
[quoted text clipped - 29 lines]
>> http://tinyurl.com/8y54 (Introducing Duffy to Holly)
>> http://tinyurl.com/8y56 (Duffy and Holly "settle in")

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MaryL - 29 Jun 2005 03:40 GMT

> Imagine the fun you could have had w/that device in the hospital......(no,
> just kidding). Our country's anniversary of declaring our independence
> from yours is coming up soon.

I think you are confusing me with someone else. I live in the U.S. (born in
Ohio and a resident of Texas for many years).

MaryL

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Hopitus - 30 Jun 2005 02:27 GMT

Christina Websell (Tweed) is the originator of this thread,
is in UK, and my post is after yours in the thread only because you were the
last poster in this thread.when I made it. Kowabunga to Texas and
ZZTop.....long may they rock.

>> Imagine the fun you could have had w/that device in the
>> hospital......(no, just kidding). Our country's anniversary of declaring
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>
> MaryL

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Christina Websell - 28 Jun 2005 02:42 GMT

>>I saw a little device at the local supermarket that you attach to your car
>>keys if you've mislaid them, all you do is whistle and it strikes up with
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>
> MaryL

I just need to check it out then. There it is still in its package on the
kitchen table. I will whistle from here in the next room. <whistles loudly>
Yep, it heard me! Lots of peeps from the kitchen!

Tweed

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John F. Eldredge - 28 Jun 2005 03:07 GMT

>I saw a little device at the local supermarket that you attach to your car
>keys if you've mislaid them, all you do is whistle and it strikes up with a
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>
>Tweed

I remember when those gadgets first came out, back in the late 1980's,
if I recall correctly. My mother got one of those beepers, and
accidentally set it off by laughing. When she realized what was
happening, she laughed more, setting off still more beeps. Oddly
enough, no one else's laugh set it off; apparently only her laugh was
at the right pitch. I don't think she bothered getting new batteries
for it once the original batteries died, and I have no idea what
eventually became of the beeper.

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