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Posted by Fred 2025-08-05 02:39|| || Front Page|| [278 views ]  Top

#1 The cord goes all the way to the kitchen.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-05 05:28||   2025-08-05 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 This is an attractive lady, but a horrible photo.
Posted by technochitlin 2025-08-05 07:24||   2025-08-05 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Women Who Bathe.... sorta
Posted by Mercutio 2025-08-05 08:48||   2025-08-05 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Ad for telephone safety?
Posted by Megabyses 2025-08-05 09:10||   2025-08-05 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 From an advert for stretchy telephone cords. Once upon a time, stretchy phone cords were the new New Thing.

(Yes, children, back before we invented electromagnetism, telephones were connected by wires)
Posted by SteveS 2025-08-05 09:25||   2025-08-05 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Anyone remember the.... "party line." I suspect more than a few here.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-05 09:29||   2025-08-05 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Beso, I remember Party Lines...and cranks.
Posted by alanc 2025-08-05 10:54||   2025-08-05 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Let’s not forget doing a fake hang up and then listening in to your sibling’s private call.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-05 11:27||   2025-08-05 11:27|| Front Page Top

#9 IDF bans Chinese vehicles from all bases over data leak fears
The IDF has barred all Chinese-made vehicles from entering its bases, citing concerns over data leaks from built-in cameras and sensors, requiring many military personnel and civilian employees to park outside the bases.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-05 11:33||   2025-08-05 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 I even remember the number, B. 1663-R
Posted by Mercutio 2025-08-05 12:04||   2025-08-05 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 We always had trouble with those phone cords getting so tangled up on themselves that they couldn't be stretched at all.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-05 12:09||   2025-08-05 12:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Never had any trouble with Martha.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-05 12:09||   2025-08-05 12:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Tip and ring

Maybe not enough voltage to kill, but it sure could sting.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-05 12:46||   2025-08-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

#14 110v was required to make the bell in the phone ring. Low amperage, but it would give you a tickle.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-08-05 14:11||   2025-08-05 14:11|| Front Page Top

#15 but it would give you a tickle

And at 30-cycles per second, it hurt. It was almost as bad as being shocked by house electrical wiring.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-08-05 17:12||   2025-08-05 17:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Way back when, the power could go out in the area, but the phones would still work.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-05 18:57||   2025-08-05 18:57|| Front Page Top

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