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The romance of a phone with a curly wurly cord

by Lucy Kippist

18 Feb 05:35am

Filed under: Communication, Egypt, Fax, Saudi Arabia, Social Media, Society

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Remember the sound of a telephone ringing through a hallway?

Communicating the old school way

The kind that attached to the wall and had a long, curly, plastic cord that could wrap around your arm but never quite stretch as far as the couch.

It was bulky too; heavy enough to need its own table or a hall-stand that doubled as a storage cabinet for the inevitable pile of White and Yellow Pages crammed underneath it.

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Sheila says:

01:45am | 19/02/11

There’s another thing landlines have going for them… if you have a household of more than one person, it’s a lot cheaper! At least, it is here in Canada, I dunno about other places… My mum had a household of like 10 people before we all moved out, and for… Read more »
Reg says:

09:29pm | 18/02/11

Hey come on, this is all modern stuff. Who remembers standing in a scorching telephone box, poised with two pennies in the slot waiting for the person on the other end to pick up the black Bakelite handset? The ear piece on a plaited cord and a fork to hang… Read more »

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