Originally Posted by The Atheist
Remember the rotary dial phones?
There was nothing quite like the soothing sound produced by the rotating dial as it returned to the neutral position.
Here, take a listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ddcf...x=0&playnext=1
I've often wondered if they could equip these fancy mobile phones with a rotary dial for us old timers.
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Rotary dial phones? You young whippersnapper.
The first phone I can remember using was a party line with different rings in morse for different people. You could dial other people on your party line by creating the right ring with a crank handle on the side of the phone. No dial, no numbers. Anyone not on the party line, you had to give three long cranks for three long rings - "O" for operator.
Our number was M, so the operator used to send two long rings when we had a call. Phone calls to UK and overseas had to be booked, and I can recall at about age 7 or 8 being staggered by a phone call to UK costing three pounds ($6) for three minutes. Three pounds was a fortune to a kid, with one penny being enough to buy lollies for a football team. Taking inflation since then, it means that call now would cost around $200 for the same 3 minutes.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
We've been left with the legacy of those old phones in the language.Dialling a number makes no common sense given the design of phones now. Nor does givind you a ring with the multitudes of ringtones now.
Back in my day if you wanted to talk to someone you had to type it into a machine and it sends it via satellite to someone where it reaches them instantly.
It's not my fault I'm only 16....
Wasn't the popularity of "Hello" as a greeting, a telephone thing?
I remember having a telephone without a dialer. We were told we were never to touch it - so of course we did, lifting the receiver and annoying the operator. She used to dob us in, that meant straight to bed and no pobbies (bread and milk) for supper.
My kids are the same. Like you, they will never know a time without instant communication.
Did you used to steal the phone batteries? Those old crankers and even dial phones for a few years had no power supply, so the phone people used to put this huge battery hidden away inside the wall where kids with evil intent couldn't get to them?
The batteries were huge and would power a torch, a radio and scientific experiements for years! Then, when they finally died, you could open them up and use the carbon rods for black chalk.
Huh, nostalgia. That got me thinking about the weird stuff we used to play with as kids - the OSH people would have heart failure nowadays.
Mercury was a good one. I used to carry around quicksilver in a matchbox in my pocket so I could show it off, then run it around my hands, then eat lunch.
Nowadays they'd have a full biohazard team in airtight suits to confiscate it.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
I used to get my batteries from Dad's electric fencer. Those cows were always getting out.
My kids are the same. Like you, they will never know a time without instant communication.
Did you used to steal the phone batteries? Those old crankers and even dial phones for a few years had no power supply, so the phone people used to put this huge battery hidden away inside the wall where kids with evil intent couldn't get to them?
The batteries were huge and would power a torch, a radio and scientific experiements for years! Then, when they finally died, you could open them up and use the carbon rods for black chalk.
Huh, nostalgia. That got me thinking about the weird stuff we used to play with as kids - the OSH people would have heart failure nowadays.
Mercury was a good one. I used to carry around quicksilver in a matchbox in my pocket so I could show it off, then run it around my hands, then eat lunch.
Nowadays they'd have a full biohazard team in airtight suits to confiscate it.
I remember playing dare with an electric fence when I was 10-ish. An unpleasant feeling.
never piss a solid stream on an electric fence. never be the last person holding hands in line when the fist in line decides to grab the wire.
heavenly blue morning glory
before we hit 2-1-11, i have some wishes for the new year:
more close-ups in lingerie football on mtv2
playing golf, and drinking at the same time on a public course in Scotland
an ex-wife who doesn't need to be told to shut her pie-hole
we're all holding our breath now eh?
heavenly blue morning glory
I have a suggestion.
Enrol the ex-wife into lingerie football. She is now away from you and does not need to shut her pie-hole. Also get a season ticket to it and sit front row, can't get much closer than that.
Build a mini-golf course in your backyard and you can do all theing you want
Lingerie football? Sounds interesting. They ought to start a sunday league in the Hebrides.
They already have my old pineapple, you want to see Bella MacCutcheon steaming down the touchline in her whalebone corset and Harris Tweed stockings. It is enough to make your eyes water.
Last edited by jocky; 01-22-2011 at 07:52 AM.
" There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. "
Eh? It's 23/1/11 already. You're 21 days late.
And introduce lingerie netball. Sharelle McMahon.
I know what you're thinking.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
Gives a whole new meaning to "Bare...oops Bear Down Chicago Bears"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqFf-...eature=related
Good luck to the Bears tomorrow.
(My Cowboys are out so I may as well support my brother in law)
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