Joel803
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Mines actually an innie so i win.
Mute Bloodrevenge
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"Hello, Operator? This is 2, could you connect me to 3 please? Thank you."
I'm old enough to remember having to tell the operator what exchange you were calling.
Firedoc
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I can remember when my telephone number was 5 digits, then they added letters to it.
WvGoDFather
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Iam old enough to remember if you put the 1 in front the of the area code, without telling your parents you got in big trouble.
Fucking long distances charges, and Miss Cleo.
LMAO
Fucking long distances charges, and Miss Cleo.
LMAO
Omg. Miss Cleo. Holy shit I remember her.
WvGoDFather
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my next door neighbors wife in HS, ran up a $5k phone bill talking to Miss Cleo.
The whole neighborhood found out 1 day, when he came home, found the phone had been cut off, and it was his business line.
Sabretooth-Ninja
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CALL MI NAU FI YA FREEEE TAROT REEEEEEEEDIN
Right.
Like our telephone number when I was a kid was CLeveland 1-3330, or 251-3330. My friend James had CLaymark 1-4954, or 251-4954.
The prefix of 251 was the same but the numbers were on different exchanges. At one point each exchange was run by one operator who operated the exchange.
Crazy shit. No wonder it cost a bloody fortune to make a local call and long distance in 1967 (as far back as I can remember) ran around $6 per minute and that was when minimum wage was $1.40 an hour.
That would translate to $80 per minute these days. No wonder people sent mail instead.
Firedoc
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Naw as a kid I found a way how to beat the system.
It only worked with payphones that accepted coins in the designated slots built into the top of phone.
I learned this trick from a Korean war vet.
Payphone took nickels (5¢), dimes (10¢), and quarters (25¢); a strip of metal along the top had holes the size of each coin however if you took a penny and spun it fast in the quarter slot it would trigger a dial tone. Then you would make your call. Oh yeah almost forgot the spinning penny always ended up in the coin return at the bottom of the phone.
Whenever the operator came on and stated your call needed more money just spin that penny in the quarter slot until the operator said it was enough.
Ah the good ole days.
I'm old enough to remember when you didnt have to dial a dial code in NYC. It was all 212 and there was no need to use an area code unless you were calling long distance.
Don't do my boy radar like that
He's more than just an operator
He's aradar radio operator
He's more than just an operator
He's a
WvGoDFather
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Radar is a LEGEND!
MASH is a legendary show..
MASH was a barely veiled anti-Vietnam War protest show. It was also dreadfully unrealistic with so many guys running around out of uniform, with long hair, overt insubordination, and etc.
The only two episodes that I ever truly liked were the one episode that didn't have the fuggin laugh track and the last episode.
insubordinate these nuts