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Rambler PSA

[background music: "You're as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice, our love"]

It's becoming common practice to designate an emergency contact in your cell phone contact list.  The recognized designation is ICE (In Case of Emergency), so that hospitals, police, or firefighters might know who to contact on your behalf.  For example, your wife Jane's contact entry might look like "ICE - Jane."  For those of us with out of town parents, it might be a good idea to designate a local ICE contact in addition to your parents.  Here is a WaPo article on the trend.

The more you know.... [sparkly shooting star graphic]

Posted on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 by Registered CommenterRCR | Comments13 Comments

Reader Comments (13)

Can I pick someone famous as my ICE? ICE - Michael Vartan? ICE - Edward Norton? If I come to in the ER, will ICE - Johnny Depp be standing there? No? Why not?
Aug 2, 2005 at 02:05PM | Unregistered CommenterWashington Cube
Go for Vanilla - ICE
Aug 2, 2005 at 02:21PM | Unregistered CommenterKathryn
You know, I really hate myself for putting that song into my head.

Damn you Foreigner, damn you and your catchy hooks!
Aug 2, 2005 at 02:43PM | Registered CommenterRCR
My mom just put my last name in her cell phone. I made fun of her as to why she did that, til she pointed out seeing my name matched hers would be an easy way for people to make the connection. That's not as cool as ICE though.

Haha get it, cool as ice?

I'm done.
Aug 2, 2005 at 02:51PM | Unregistered Commenterasianmistress
RCR - see if you can get Dana Carvey's Choppin' Broccoli in there instead, they start similarly...
Aug 2, 2005 at 02:58PM | Unregistered CommenterKathryn
Electric Avenue has been consistently voted as a "Get it out of my head NOW" song.
Aug 2, 2005 at 03:05PM | Unregistered CommenterWashington Cube
Hey, let's just throw the Meowmix theme song in there for good measure:

Meow Meow Meow Meow, Meow Meow Meow Meow, Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow
Aug 2, 2005 at 03:11PM | Registered CommenterRCR
With a taste of your lips, I wanna ride
You're toxic, I'm slippin under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're toxic

TAKE THAT

F--king Meow Mix. ARRRGH.
Aug 2, 2005 at 03:12PM | Unregistered CommenterKathryn
So, does "Mom cell" not cut it or something?
Aug 2, 2005 at 05:13PM | Unregistered Commenterlarry
Sure, but your mom is thousands of miles away (in my bed - HA!). But I think the point might be that people don't put 'wife' or 'husband' or 'domestic life partner' in their cell phone. They just use their name.
Aug 2, 2005 at 05:25PM | Registered CommenterRCR
K- i've tried "toxic" on him before; he's immune to it. willful ignorance of the more obscene forms of pop culture shows yet another upside...
Aug 2, 2005 at 08:27PM | Unregistered Commenterbrett
We shall find his weakness yet, Brett... all in due time...
Aug 3, 2005 at 08:40AM | Unregistered CommenterKathryn
Aw, Man!! I now have that damn Foreigner song stuck in my head. Damn you all to hell! ;)
Aug 3, 2005 at 12:13PM | Unregistered CommenterMiss Penny Lane

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