Brevity by Dan Thompson for May 09, 2013

Last one we had at work was .35 cents took it out in 2000 or 01.

You can’t be Sirious.

So which phone is smarter now?

If he doesn’t have his lawyer present, the one on the left shouldn’t say much anyway…I think the big guy is wearing a wire.

I know he’s not cosmopolitan and sophisticated like that flat guy with all his international connections…But you’d be surprised what he gets out of some good old-fashioned networking down at the Rotary Club.

Throw him in a holding cell.

Drop a dime on him…..

Ones in south Florida used dimes until the early 80s, IIRC, then went to a quarter. I think we were one of the last areas to lose the old rate.

Apparently our cartoonist has not seen a coin box unit in years, either. There were only 10 holes on a rotary dial, not 12. There is no # or * on a rotary phone, and they didn’t exist on phones until TouchTone was introduced years later (coin boxes were around 25 cents at that point in major cities).

We have a pay phone at our historical museum. Not many under the age of 15 know exactly what it is.

missjunebug, first of all, I love your name….I love June bugs….I’ve run into kids that don’t have any idea how to use a rotary phone…And analog clocks….Most kids have no idea what quarter after five means. To them it’s digital. 5:15…When the hand is on the 1 why does it mean 5? 2 is 10 minutes? What?

Pay phones, if you can find a working one, generally cost 50 cents. I recall, about 10 years ago, I found one that still did local calls for 35 cents, but that was an exception to the norm.