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Mar 24, 2019 05:53:35   #
PhotoNat Loc: Santa Maria, CA
 
These are great! Especially love number two(too true) and number five(that was my phone at six too).
PhotoNat

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Mar 24, 2019 07:19:53   #
yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey
 

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Mar 24, 2019 07:38:01   #
bedouin Loc: Big Bend area, Texas
 
Call BR 549. (Junior Samples on Hee Haw)

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Mar 24, 2019 08:29:12   #
badapple Loc: Twin Lake, Michigan
 
Grew up on south side of Chicago. We had a pay phone in our house. It cost a nickel to make a call. Once a month someone from the telephone company would come to open the box with a special key and remove the coins. My mother always kept nickels by the phone so calls could be made. All calls went through an operator. Long distance calls required additional amounts of money. The operator would break in to inform you when to add more coins. I remember our number. It was 2345. Yes, I am old!

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Mar 24, 2019 08:29:38   #
ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA
 
Thanks for the morning laugh Mark!

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Mar 24, 2019 08:31:24   #
Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
 
I can remember in the 1940's when the operator came on and asked, "Number please?" Aw, the good old days.

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Mar 24, 2019 08:41:16   #
Stash Loc: South Central Massachusetts
 
I still have an old type flip phone and have no plan to replace it.

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Mar 24, 2019 09:10:20   #
retiredsgt Loc: Red Lion Pa.
 
The one about the Turn Signals is quite correct. But, HEY, Folks do not realize that the "GREEN LIGHT" means to put down that Darn phone, and GOOOO !
A LOTTA LAUGHS THOUGH, Thanks !

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Mar 24, 2019 09:11:43   #
markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ
 
Thanks for the comments. Happy to hear some enjoyed the post.
Go Duke!!
Mark

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Mar 24, 2019 09:12:06   #
1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA
 
SteveR wrote:
Day at the museum is hilarious and spot on.


Day at the museum is PATHETIC! Take those high priced time wasters away from them.

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Mar 24, 2019 09:18:46   #
Orson Burleigh Loc: Annapolis, Maryland, USA
 
markngolf wrote:
Sent to me by a cousin. I use my cell phone frequently, but my life is complete without one.
Enjoy,
Mark


The cell phone: yet another of the modern day advances that cause one to ask how the world's population ever grew to six billion before the minimum level of life-enhancing technology was attained.

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Mar 24, 2019 09:23:52   #
boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander
 
markngolf wrote:
Yes, we had one too in the 40's/50's. I have to admit that occasionally I did listen in on the party line. I still remember my phone number from the 40's. Asbury 6491J. (Lived near Asbury Park, NJ)
Mark


Mine was Ravenswood 8 2491. That was when kids went out to play. Now-they sit on their asses get fat and never go outside, except to buy a new cell phone.

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Mar 24, 2019 10:03:23   #
Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee
 

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Mar 24, 2019 10:12:05   #
fetzler Loc: North West PA
 
I turn on my cell phone about 2-3 hours a year.

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Mar 24, 2019 10:20:17   #
Dannj
 
My grandkids were flipping thru my high school year book, strictly for laughs, when the came across my graduation picture. They wanted to know what the letters and numbers were after my name: RA 1-2507. So I gave them a history lesson on phone numbers, area codes, etc.. About an hour later my 11 year old grandson holding up his phone and pointing to the keypad said: “Hey, Gramps, these are the same letters you were talking about!”

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