#214 – Rung
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
It’s funny now to think of how my children will only know home telephones as one of those funny things in old TV shows and movies. I guess the same way I look at the old phones with the crank on the side and the earpiece on a separate cord.
Tags: headphones, pain, telephone
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.
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
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
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.
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.
“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 )
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,
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!”