Comments on: #214 – Rung (8 Comments)

By: pbarnrob

pbarnrob — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:38:34 +0000

Passing from the language, along with ‘dial O for Operator’, ‘wind your watch’, ‘you sound like a broken record’, lessee, what else…
I still want a bumper sticker that says “HANG UP and Drive!”

By: kingklash

kingklash — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:42:24 +0000

You could probably make some cash if you can make a smartphone app that lets you end a call with the sound of a old-fashioned receiver *slam!*, for those angry moments,

By: ZeoViolet

ZeoViolet — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:02:45 +0000

“Back in MY day some people still had phones….that connected to a WALL!”

“Don’t listen to old Papa Jones and his so-called ancient history, everyone….”

(Sorry but the image is funny. XD )

By: Jaja

Jaja — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:01:45 +0000

I teach in high school, and we were reading a piece in class, written a couple of decades ago, where the character “violently hangs up” a phone. They found the expression ridiculous and a very funny image, and before I could explain anything, proceeded to pretend to be “violently” pressing the end button on a cell phone, laughing like loons. I stopped trying to explain.

By: ZeoViolet

ZeoViolet — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:52:55 +0000

Well, that isn’t quite what I had in mind, but it’s a step in the right direction. XD Hahahaha it’s still pretty neat.

By: scorinth

scorinth — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:16:38 +0000

First, I miss the days when cell phone headsets had cords, so you could pretend to have a conversation with them, and see people freak out when they notice that it’s not plugged into a phone!

Second, yes, SparkFun sells them: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/287

By: ZeoViolet

ZeoViolet — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:25:25 +0000

At the risk of giving someone a heart attack, I will not make comments about Bluetooths too.

That said, I wonder if someone has ever put out a novelty cellular phone with an old-fashioned rotary attachment. For, you know, novelty. XD

By: kingklash

kingklash — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:30:29 +0000

When I was a kid, “the old phone with the crank on the side” meant that pay phone at the gas station where that old homeless dude would hang out in the afternoon and rant about how the city of Oakland was going down the tubes.