Strange Brew by John Deering for June 24, 2010

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    ksoskins  over 14 years ago

    His dad’s an OG [Original Gadget].

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    Colt9033  over 14 years ago

    Grumby old phones

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    cdward  over 14 years ago

    In my day we had to dial - and I mean rotary, none of that modern push-button stuff. And you had to stay connected to the wall - none of this whiper-snapper-go-where-you-want garbage. Ah, the good old days.

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    Anandgyan  over 14 years ago

    That’s a good one!

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    MobyD  over 14 years ago

    Heh. Back when I was a boy, a mobile phone was one with a 25-foot cord on the handset. Calling beyond the next town over was long distance.

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    grampaspot  over 14 years ago

    Does anybody remember picking up the phone and a voice says, “Number please.”

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    and you had to write the number in pencil on the wall.

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    grampaspot  over 14 years ago

    Got Ya’ Joe. We were on a party line and I recall being able to hear conversations by others at times. I even recall making a call and the operator called me by name. Scared me but it turned out to be a neighbor who was an operator and she recognized my voice. I was just a kid at the time.

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    zev.farkas  over 14 years ago

    We had a party line when I was little - I found out about that by surprise - I once picked up the phone and someone else was talking, and I said something like “who are YOU?”

    Boy, did I catch it from my parents for that one… :)

    Turned out that the other “party” (we were lucky - we only had to share with one other) was a sweet elderly couple that lived next door. I still remember the old man fixing one of my toys with a pair of pliers and some coat-hanger wire.

    BTW - does anyone else remember the days when a telephone handpiece qualified as a blunt instrument?

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    Ushindi  over 14 years ago

    My first cell phone was an analog AT&T “bag phone” - would still work great except, of course, for the fact there are no more analog cell systems. Put out a three-watt signal compared to the standard (at the time) one-half watt. Probably fried my brain - maybe THAT’S my problem…

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    Ushindi  over 14 years ago

    It was ALSO years ago I had the analog bag phone (which I still have, for some reason - it’s cool?). There WAS a time, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, when cell phones were analog.

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