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  • #16
    Quoth Racket_Man View Post
    ELMER SEASON
    Mister Magoo's got hand grenades!
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    • #17
      By George... these pineapples aren't ripe just yet... mumble mumble....
      - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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      • #18
        Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
        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.
        Sing it if you know it...

        "Oh, the woman on our party line's a nosy thing,
        She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring..."
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        • #19
          Quoth Racket_Man View Post
          ELMER SEASON
          No, no, no....It's baseball season.
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          • #20
            Quoth CrazedClerkthe2nd View Post
            This 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.
            My understanding, from your description, is that this device allows you to plug in any piece of telephone hardware that would normally be connected to a landline. Is this correct? If so, can it be used with a fax machine? This would be GREAT in the trucking industry, where it's necessary to do a lot of faxing - would avoid the need to stop at a truck stop to do it.

            Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
            Back 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*
            Are you suggesting that people here would use lethal force against someone whose only offense was to tell a bad joke?
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            • #21
              Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
              Was 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.
              (snip)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8<
              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.
              That is how it worked, yes. Service for up to four residences on a single line, and there were a whole host of rules you were supposed to follow. It allowed America to get connected quickly and inexpensively until all the infrastructure could be built for individual service.

              BUT...

              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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              • #22
                Quoth wolfie View Post
                Are 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).
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                • #23
                  Quoth taxguykarl View Post
                  No, no, no....It's baseball season.
                  Tennis Anyone?????

                  ****BLAM *********
                  I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                  -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


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                  • #24
                    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.
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                    • #25
                      Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                      Tennis Anyone?????

                      ****BLAM *********
                      Were you referring to this tennis match?
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                      • #26
                        Quoth mathnerd View Post
                        I believe throwing tomatoes is only lethal to me ....
                        Depends whether they're still in the tin or not :P
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                        • #27
                          Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
                          Was 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)...
                          I grew-up in my teen years in various foster homes. Lived on a dairy farm until I joined the Navy at age 17, to get away from all that. We had a party line, and I remember that an older lady in the area would listen-in to my foster sister's phone calls with her boyfriend(s), and report to others on that -- with her own judgments and critique included!!!
                          Who hears all your prayers? Why, the NSA, of course!

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                          • #28
                            I I like your posts but you are way to nice to these people. You never ask them any tough questions to contradict them. Your stories would be a lot more I interesting if you did.

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                            • #29
                              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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                              • #30
                                Quoth mathnerd View Post
                                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).

                                Guilty!!

                                Its a bad bad day if I get them on my skin or ingest them.

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