Things That Amuse You

[evdog]

So this popped up in my news feed this morning. https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene...ans-track-use/

Apparently someone pooped under the bleachers at the high school in Sedona. Two running teams are primary suspects including one from Quebec. "The Quebec boys frequently get themselves in situations like this." LOL. I blame the #vanlifers.

[mtnjam]

Dude, you are unstable. People hire you as their lawyer?

Yeah, I was trying to figure out how much acid I needed to take to get on the same wave as MMT on that Adderalled up post.

[riser4]

Yeah, I was trying to figure out how much acid I needed to take to get on the same wave as MMT on that Adderalled up post.

All of it.

[Meadow Skipper]

^ That reply amused me.

[Grizz]

Just came across this. Sorry if it's a repeat. The two guys at the start gate and the announcers are great.

[::: :::]

I should totally pick up this legitimate business call

[Buzzworthy]

Second charge of the day I see

[KQ]

[riser4]

Chaos.

[BCMtnHound]

Party lines! Those were fun! And a whole different era of consideration for your neighbours.

[babybear]

^ How about the suuuper long phone cords too.
You'd try to hide from your siblings when on the phone.... but there was no where to run

[KQ]

Anyone else do the thing where you would dial your own number then hang up so the phone would ring? You could be upstairs and call someone downstairs.

[BCMtnHound]

You had more than one phone? Bringing on the ritz!

[TBS]

My last year in college I shared a house with four other guys. Our shared phone was a princess (remember those) with a 6 foot cord. We would fling the handset across the room to who ever was being called.

Except one day someone threw it to me and the jack in the phone base broke off. Call was functionally disconnected
The caller wanted to hire me for my first professional gig out of school

[KQ]

You had more than one phone? Bringing on the ritz!

Not until the late 70s.

My GF had one of those phone tables at her house. You had to sit there and have your conversation.

[KQ]

My last year in college I shared a house with four other guys. Our shared phone was a princess (remember those) with a 6 foot cord.

I had a genie, this exact color. May still have it in a box somewhere.

[BCMtnHound]

It wasn’t until the move to Nelson in the mid 80’s the house got a second phone. Dad splurged and got a cordless. Analog, so great range (maybe 150 or 200m), but picked up interference too easily. My sisters fought over that handset something fierce.

[KQ]

Party lines! Those were fun! And a whole different era of consideration for your neighbours.

My Grandparents had a party line. I think their ring was two.

[mcphee]

A friend’s parents have a rotary phone built into the wall of their kitchen with a ridiculously long cord. It’s their only landline and It’s framed with some decorative trim.


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[KQ]

A friend’s parents have a rotary phone built into the wall of their kitchen with a ridiculously long cord. It’s their only landline and It’s framed with some decorative trim.


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[old goat]

My dad was a medical intern in the 50's, when all the interns slept in the interns' quarters. They each had their own little room, but there was one phone out in the hall. If the hospital needed an intern they called the phone--no overhead paging system or pagers--and someone would have to get out of bed, answer the phone, find out who they wanted, and then try to find and rouse that person. Needless to say no one got much sleep.

[Flyoverland Captive]

My dad was a fireman in the 70’s-80’s, before pagers. When there was an emergency, our phone would ring in one long steady ring (instead of the normal ring-silence-ring-silence pattern) which meant “get your ass to the station”.

Every time the phone rang, we’d all stop what we were doing to see if the ring pattern was a phone call or a fire alert.

[evdog]

My parents held onto their rented rotary phone for many years. I don't think they even knew that you could own your own phone. When we finally convinced them to buy a new one they got a cordless. My dad would take the handset out to the garage with him, which was not attached and visible from the kitchen window. I'd wait until he was in the middle of something and then hit the locate handset button on the base. The handset would ring just like for a phone call, so of course he'd pick it up to answer. Took quite a while before he figured out we were messing with him.

[old goat]

My dad was a fireman in the 70’s-80’s, before pagers. When there was an emergency, our phone would ring in one long steady ring (instead of the normal ring-silence-ring-silence pattern) which meant “get your ass to the station”.

Every time the phone rang, we’d all stop what we were doing to see if the ring pattern was a phone call or a fire alert.

I got to the point where I would physically startle every time my pager went off. I don't miss that. Still, it was better than when they started handing out cell phones for all the docs to carry--and you were expected to answer it immediately. "Let me stop doing CPR while I answer this call about a patient who needs a laxative". I managed to avoid that.

Unfortunately I do startle when my phone goes off--not as bad as with the pager, but it's a left-over reflex I guess. When I was young I liked hearing the phone ring. Now it's an annoyance.

On a different note--this bit of corporate lawyer speak at Palisades: the "catch net" kept in a bucket at the bottom of lifts is now the "deceleration net".
I guess some lawyer figured they'd get sued if someone fell off a chair and hit the snow thinking that the net would catch them before they hit the snow, however slowly.

[Danno]

The maggot tournament amuses me: https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...ament-Showdown