[lit-ideas] Re: more cell phone spottings
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:06:17 EST
<<This thread is curiouser and curious.
1. Did you miss the 'phone before you had one?>>
I missed not having a walk-about phone. I remember thinking how cool it
would be if someone figured out a way to make a phone that didn't have to be
latched to the wall with the cord.
<<2. Do you have electric cans in America now?>>
Okay, okay -- "electric can-opener" --
Julie Krueger
apparently not paying enough attention to hyphens.
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: more cell phone
spottings Date: 11/22/05 5:57:26 AM Central Standard Time From:
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Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx> quoted
> JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx [who] wrote:
>
> > When I was a kid (sometime before the dinosaurs
> reigned) not only did we
> > not have cell phones, we did not have cordless
> phones. We had two
> > phones in the house, both corded and immovable;
> one in the kitchen and
> > one in a bedroom. Remember the days of "party
> lines"? Yes, we were on
> > one. Frequently when lifting the phone to place a
> call we would find
> > ourselves privvy to a conversation not meant for
> our ears, rather than
> > a dialtone.
>
> Dialtone? Dialtones didn't reach us until dial
> phones didâand that was
> some time in the 1950s. When I was growing up, one
> lifted the receiver,
> the operator's voice said, 'Number, please,'
> whereupon one recited the
> number one wanted to reach and waited for the
> operator to make the
> connection. I think for a time our number was 122J.
>
> Maybe cell phones will go the way of the electric
> can opener.
This thread is curiouser and curious.
1. Did you miss the 'phone before you had one?
2. Do you have electric cans in America now?
Now I don't understand nothing.
-tor
(remains of noway=)
torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx
http://home.no.net/torgfje/
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