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  • The authorities have advised Muscovites to turn off their cellphones during electrical storms - not a simple request in my experience, as many Muscovites won't even turn off their "handies" at the movies or the opera.

    Russia Blog 2009

  • The authorities have advised Muscovites to turn off their cellphones during electrical storms - not a simple request in my experience, as many Muscovites won't even turn off their "handies" at the movies or the opera.

    Russia Blog 2009

  • The authorities have advised Muscovites to turn off their cellphones during electrical storms - not a simple request in my experience, as many Muscovites won't even turn off their "handies" at the movies or the opera.

    Russia Blog 2009

  • The authorities have advised Muscovites to turn off their cellphones during electrical storms - not a simple request in my experience, as many Muscovites won't even turn off their "handies" at the movies or the opera.

    Russia Blog 2009

  • The authorities have advised Muscovites to turn off their cellphones during electrical storms - not a simple request in my experience, as many Muscovites won't even turn off their "handies" at the movies or the opera.

    Russia Blog 2009

  • To understand the behavioral impact these 'handies,' as Germans call them, have on our lives today, just think about the sheer panic that ensues when a mobile phone is lost or stolen.

    Jim Luce: The Impact of Cell Phones on Psychology, Community, Culture, Arts and Economics 2010

  • To understand the behavioral impact these 'handies,' as Germans call them, have on our lives today, just think about the sheer panic that ensues when a mobile phone is lost or stolen.

    The Impact of Cell Phones on Psychology, Community, Culture, Arts and Economics 2010

  • They can also tick off cultural eccentricities: the Germans eat hamburgers with knives and forks and call their cell phones "handies."

    Hands On The Wheel 2008

  • I called himz ‘Bonkers’ cuz him duzz teh hedbonks awn mah legzez an handies.

    Coolness - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Purr-haps wit deh jazz handies and deh tippy tappy feets?

    Emo Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

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