Telephones
It’s infuriating. Here at The Punch, we regularly call all sorts of academics for their opinions on various things. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get through.
Seriously, their phones just ring and ring and ring. And if you leave a message, good luck hearing back from them before next week. By which time the issue du jour will be well and truly fish and chip wrapping.
Why is this the case? Surely academics have fewer meetings than the rest of us. Surely they are at their desks more, right by that clunky old landline. They have mobiles too, right? With that newfangled voicemail stuff, and all.
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On 10 March 1876, Alexander Bell called Thomas Watson. By today’s standards, unremarkable. But in 1876, he had made the world’s first telephone call.
Some 130 years later, today’s World Telephone Day celebrates that call, in an environment very different from Alexander Bell’s. Telephones of various types, shapes, colours and sizes are enmeshed in our everyday lives.
Today’s phones are personal and business necessities. They can be fashion accessories. They’re more compact, more mobile, and we rely upon them more than ever before.
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Senator you have done nothing here but embarress yourself! If you have a business relationship with someone, they are allowed to call you, whether you are on the Do Not Call Register or not. Someone with your responsibilities should know this! You are doing yourself and the Liberal Party a… Read more »
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