In a message dated 8/14/2005 8:11:33 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
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When he did make himself known, the rep. was somewhat embarrassed, and told
the Buyer - who he didn't realise was my Dad - what a lovely girl I was. To
which Dad replied "Yes, I know she is - she's lived wit
In about 1977 or so, I worked for Southwestern Bell (the phone company)
in Kansas using one of these cordboards. That was back when you had to
call the operator to make a long distance or collect phone call. If you
ever watched and remember Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, the character
played by L
, and I don't know whether Dad told him
the truth in the end, or whether the poor man got the order he wanted
either.
Carol - in Suffolk UK
Subject: [lace-chat] Telephone sticks in holes
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> The person doing it is a telephonist or switchboard operator.
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Weronika wrote:
As were the - I don't even know the
English for it... Those things where one person sat at a board of many
holes, plugging in many telephone sticks into the holes?. >
The person doing it is a telephonist or switchboard operator. I last saw
that type of switchboard in the early
