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Refers to da "shout-out" phone call dat you make to one or more local homes/businesses during a power-outage, to ask if they are without electricity, also ("Are you folks in da Dark Ages, as well?"); this allows you to reliably determine if it is indeed a widespread outage, rather than it's being "just you" (i.e., where you would need to check your home's wiring/fuse-box for unseen faulty connections).
During an unexpected power-outage, most folks will likely be at least marginally patient/understanding if you want to check wif dem about whether their electricity is off, as well, but you should still consider carefully before making said call --- usually you will want to do so only if da current weather is fairly "calm 'n' balmy" and therefore a utilities-outage would not be expected. It is generally understood dat service-wires might be downed if there is heavy snow/wind, and so in these cases your "dark ages"-inquiry phone call might be viewed as somewhat of an unnecessary/frivolous interruption, especially since those other folks will themselves probably be experiencing moderate difficulties/concerns regarding said hiccup in da flow of "angry pixies", and so at da time they may be feverishly scrambling to "batten down da hatches" while waiting for da power to come back on again. Good luck trying to call anyone, though, since nowadays da phone and electricity are no longer such "entirely separate circuits" as they used to be, and so unless it's an extremely small and "localized" outage, your home-phone service will likely be out, also, if da electricity is off. Dat's an instance where mobile phones can be an alternative means of communication, since most cellular-towers have their own "dedicated" power-source dat will remain active even if da "regular" electricity is off.
by QuacksO March 19, 2019
mugGet the "dark ages"-inquiry phone callmug.
A shitty FPS from the Call of Duty series where there is literally only one good mission (yeah the sniping one) and in multiplayer you get killed by a grenade before the screen even lights up.
~ Hey bro let's play some Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4
– Nah it's shit man
by JigglesTheDog June 26, 2017
mugGet the call of duty modern warfare 4mug.

Call-back

That was called a call-back you humorless dork.
Hym “That was a call-back you humorless dork. How’s all that moral posturing feel? Good? Good.”
by Hym Iam October 5, 2022
mugGet the Call-backmug.
What I call homo-sapiens who know the spartan prayer: "Achilles, the frequency auditor, born by hands and killed by feet because he was so endowed in the trench that he was laid to rest so a female can portray the rest" and are addicted to abscesses.
Person 1: Do you know the spartan prayer and are addicted to abscesses?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: The Anointed And Moisten One (Moist To Moses, The Moist One Called "Angel Jose Robles")...
by Abreathofaversaillian January 23, 2025
mugGet the The Anointed And Moisten One (Moist To Moses, The Moist One Called "Angel Jose Robles")...mug.

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