Do you guys remember rotary telephones?

crawfish

crawfish

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Me and Runout Rodney just went on a short trip and were laughing about how funny it was to have to keep calling a motherfu#$er until he answered. No cell phones. How fun is it to check a line then, you knockin' motherfu#$ers? I wish you young guys had to deal with that shit just once. There was NO getting the guy. You just kept calling until you got him. Zipp. Wind. Zipp. Wind. Zipp Wind. Then, after six numbers, you finger slips and you gotta start all over. How'ya like it, now? I want a rotary cell phone. Nothing like fu#$in' with a guy tryin' to get the line on someone. Anyone remember? You know you do. Wind, zipp zipp. Wind, zipp zipp. Yeah. Dial that mf for about forty-five minutes.

And, oh fu#$, I got all the numbers right.............. wind, zipp, zipp, and you guessed it. BUSY. The only call waitin' is your dumbass waiting to call again. Good luck. Wind Zipp, Zipp all over. Hope he's home. Hey, hope it's not a good buzz and he left it off the hook. Wind. Zipp Zipp all over again.

Wind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp Zipp....You youngsters don't know how good you got it. Hell, just fu#$ the line. Can't get the motherfu#$er on the horn, guess you'll have to try even. Wind, Zipp Zipp. Go and get'em.
 
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crawfish said:
Me and Runout Rodney just went on a short trip and were laughing about how funny it was to have to keep calling a motherfu#$er until he answered. No cell phones. How fun is it to check a line then, you knockin' motherfu#$ers? I wish you young guys had to deal with that shit just once. There was NO getting the guy. You just kept calling until you got him. Zipp. Wind. Zipp. Wind. Zipp Wind. Then, after six numbers, you finger slips and you gotta start all over. How'ya like it, now? I want a rotary cell phone. Nothing like fu#$in' with a guy tryin' to get the line on someone. Anyone remember? You know you do. Wind, zipp zipp. Wind, zipp zipp. Yeah. Dial that mf for about forty-five minutes.
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The people don't talk anymore, they text. Even my Armenian old lady hairdresser is texting and I feel like a dinosaur talking into my stuipid, no-keyboard cell phone.

Evolution will cause our vocal cords to atrophy, and we will then be speechless. Our mouths will only serve two functions; food and sex. Forget sex, what's on the menu??????

Chris

Ps. I remember my first phone number DI (Dickens) 9-3621
 
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Text is also going down... Chatting is the thing... "WhatsApp" is the bomb... Works on Blackberry, iPhone, Symbian and soon on Andriod...
 
TATE said:
The people don't talk anymore, they text. Even my Armenian old lady hairdresser is texting and I feel like a dinosaur talking into my stuipid, no-keyboard cell phone.

Evolution will cause our vocal cords to atrophy, and we will then be speechless. Our mouths will only serve two functions; food and sex. Forget sex, what's on the menu??????

Chris

Ps. I remember my first phone number DI (Dickens) 9-3621
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I guess this shit is WAY more funny after 22 beers. Low guess.
 
I remember my first number as well. It was 442 and you couldn't dial at all. You waited for an operator to connect you. I'd ask for 442 to tell my Mom where I was headed after school and the operator was likely to say, "If you're looking for your mother, she isn't home she's playing bridge at the Hardin's let me connect you there."
 
TATE said:
The people don't talk anymore, they text. Even my Armenian old lady hairdresser is texting and I feel like a dinosaur talking into my stuipid, no-keyboard cell phone.

Evolution will cause our vocal cords to atrophy, and we will then be speechless. Our mouths will only serve two functions; food and sex. Forget sex, what's on the menu??????

Chris

Ps. I remember my first phone number DI (Dickens) 9-3621
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I guess this shit is WAY more funny after 22 beers. Low guess. Wind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp ZippWind. Zipp Zipp
 
I remember the rotary wall kitchen phone from the 70's

available in beige or avocado green.. with the 50 foot cord that if you reached its limit on a long call would snap out of your hand and the cord would ball up in this huge gordian knot.. that took several hours and at least two people to render straight again... and the best part hanging the cord of the highest staircase in the house and trying to record the RPM's of the hand set spinning LOL
 
What are you talking about? I have thee latest model.:)

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Its true

I can remember driving all all over town to find me a date just because I overslept on on a friday night. If you wanted a line on someone it better be for tomorrow night, because nobody was at home when you needed them or it was to late to call their house.
 
Worse than the rotarys alone was a rotary with a party line. Every time one wanted to use the phone, you had to pick it up and listen to see if someone was on the line before you started dialing. My mom still had that phone till almost the 90's I think. She wasn't changing till the phone company made her.
 
If you made alot of calls on them, you got ring around the finger.
 

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Yeah, I remember the rotary dial phone. And there was only one phone company in the whole country and the phones always worked. If they didn't they came out and fixed it for free no matter what was wrong.

Anyone remember the first answering machines with remote access? When you were away from home you had to carry that big arse beeper that you would hold up to the phone you were calling from when you called your house to get your messages? lol
 
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Yeah, I remember the rotary dial phone. And there was only one phone company in the whole country and the phones always worked. If they didn't they came out and fixed it for free no matter waht was wrong.
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not quite that simple I remember a story about an old lady who leased her phone...


paid over $20,000 for her rotary phone... and still didn't own it..

so the fixed it for free line is a bit of the ol.... BS
 
four numbers and party lines

I remember we had four numbers and party lines. Nothing but party lines were available and between the operator listening in and the neighbors everybody in the parish(county) knew your business. There was always one old lady in the group of people on your party line that spent as much time on the phone then as many people do on a cell now. Seemed like she hogged about 75% of the air time.

Nothing truer back then "telephone, telegraph, tell a girl". Any of the three and your business would be all over our small town before noon the next day!

When I had a pretty rough business people often suggested I keep a club near my sales counter. They didn't realize I had a club in my hand most of the time. The hand piece of those old desk top rotary phones were heavy and almost indestructible. A quick slap upside the head with that thing and the discussion was over. :thumbup:

Of course we all know for a good deal on a used car we need to call BR-549.

Hu
 
Do I remember rotary telephones? It was the damn telephone that caused my Great Grandfather, Phineas T. Steamer, to lose the family fortune.
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone my Great Grandfather had the bright idea of investing all the family money into 'yelling' as a low cost alternative to long distance.
The rest, as they say, is history. ::D
 
Remember the rotary, heck, I still have one in my basement, right by the pool table. It works, I own it, I use it every day.

Crawfish, where do you get all the stuff you come out with? You should write books, and I been meaning to ask, who the heck is McLovin and why are you sporting him? It sounds obscene to me.

Dave Nelson
 
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