When I was a kid in the 1950’s living on a farm in Iowa, we had a crank phone. To call someone of the same line, you used a series of short and long cranks. Ours was a short, a long, and 3 shorts. To get the operator, it was a very long crank. We got a dial phone sometime around 1960.
“He’s a real gone cat” and “Dirty bird”