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Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Postthat phone was on a line w/a few others and you could tell by the arrangement of the ring tone who the call was for.
"Oh, the woman on our party line's a nosy thing,
She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring..."Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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Quoth CrazedClerkthe2nd View PostThis lady had what is known as a wireless home phone. It's basically a small box you keep in your house and you use it sort of like you would a landline, but it runs off our mobile network as opposed to a wired connection.
Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View PostBack to the subject at hand though, perhaps I can get a credit for making sure my phone payments are made on time each month?
*ducks and hides under the desk to avoid flying tomatoes*Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View PostWas this around the 50s/60's maybe? I was born at the end of the 60's and that was around the time that party lines were done away with in my area.
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IIRC that phone was on a line w/a few others and you could tell by the arrangement of the ring tone who the call was for.
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The 'party line' didn't go away. Bell simply repackaged it as 'distinctive ring', allowing up to four individual users per residence - and as a bonus, it uses the same basic equipment the old party lines did. Mom, Dad, little brother, and big sis all had their own phone numbers and you could tell who the call was for by the ring - though of course only one person could use the phones at a time. I believe it is still offered for landlines.
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Quoth wolfie View PostAre you suggesting that people here would use lethal force against someone whose only offense was to tell a bad joke?
I believe throwing tomatoes is only lethal to me (unless there's somebody else here with that severe of a tomato allergy that hasn't outed themselves).At the conclusion of an Irish wedding, the priest said "Everybody please hug the person who has made your life worth living. The bartender was nearly crushed to death.
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Funny you should mention that one, RM -- Ya know how some network TV channels used to censor even Bugs Bunny toons? I recall seeing the one where Elmer was "chasing" a baseball by repeatedly shooting it, causing it to pop up into the air...On this station's version, all of the gunshot were edited out (though you could still see that he was carrying that huge gun of his!), so it looked like he would run up to a baseball on the ground, which would then spontaneously fly up into the air, he would chase it again, it would fly up...etc."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth Racket_Man View PostTennis Anyone?????
****BLAM *********Last edited by Ironclad Alibi; 06-23-2016, 02:40 AM."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Quoth mathnerd View PostI believe throwing tomatoes is only lethal to me ....The Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.
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Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View PostWas this around the 50s/60's maybe? I was born at the end of the 60's and that was around the time that party lines were done away with in my area.
I recall my mom talking about growing up on the farm back in the 50s and 60's (she was born in 1947)...Who hears all your prayers? Why, the NSA, of course!
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Keep in mind, corporate policy probably doesn't LET him say what he wants to, and if he did, they'd win by getting their refund due to a "rude rep".
Now me? I'm only constrained by my rapidly-failing internal filter.- They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.
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