Matt Bors for January 31, 2013

2 minutes – Ha! If only one were so lucky. No in my days we had to share a phone in the village, and it was 4 miles through the snow up hill to get to one – in the summer as well.

…I had to explain to my 5 year old what “dialing” really meant. She thought it’d be more fun than digiting numbers.

Wait, so there’s a cheap and convenient way for me to relieve myself without leaving the comfort of my bedroom or couch? I wish someone had clued me in before I put a tv in my every room of my house!

And then use your iPhone to tweet the experience.

I didn’t understand what inspired the cartoon, but I love the comments it inspired. I watched a young man try to make a call from a rotary dial phone three years ago. He punched the buttons through the hole in the dial and said, “Your buttons are all stuck.” And while many homes in my 1963 Miss. town had phones, they were all on a party line. If you were bored, you just picked up the phone and listened in. And having to wait in the "queue’ to be able to make your call created interesting moments of “phone rage.”amused,C.

I’m not under 30, and I can’t drive a car without a clutch. I can, however, drive a horse. I think that’s going one better. :)

IF the quill made a come back people would learn to think before writing.

We had one of those “number please” systems until about 1959.My mother worked at various jobs at a hotel, including the switchboard that had those cables you pugged in like in a Lily Tomlin act.

I hear that there will be a new national party called the NCPA,National Chamber Pot Association! Wayne LaPierre will run it!

Ha! We had an easy number to dial: 33-0931. Only 2 loooong dials. The number of times we came up short up in the dial and got the wrong person…Now we have fat fingers when we mis-dial. :-|

‘How many people under 30 today cannot drive a car with a clutch??’The only time I’ve driven an automatic was on one of my visits to the USA. At the rental agency, when I asked for a manual, I was met with a blank look. I had a choice between an automatic and another automatic. Made my drive from Chicago up into Michigan easier but it still perplexed me. After a while I got used to doing nothing but steering but…I dunno. Not for me.

@ PocketNaomi ha!I knew what a churchkey was but I didn’t know its name. Interesting. Learnt a new word.

give me a club, I going on a date.

I remember the “Number, please!” days and the telephone number that got me a ride from the library: 1346J, “J” denoting it to be a party line. We shared that party line with another family down the block. When their older kids and my parents’ older kids all hit teenage at the same time, my father switched to a private line, the number for which was 1346. A short time later, AT&T switched my area over to touchtone phones, one of the first installations in the nation. Though faster, one still had to remember and punch seven digits for a phone call. Progress!

asked: ‘When did “digiting” become a verb?’Ahem, well…

“omQ R said, about 8 hours ago….digiting numbers.”…about 8 hours ago!

DrCanuck: If you can understand it, that makes it a word, eh?

Ummmm. Electrolytes. Yummy.

I’ve used a quill pen, but I much prefer fountain pens. Considering the amount of money one can make at calligraphy (as an art work) or churning butter (think tourist trap) I’m willing to bet the craft beer is selling for 3 times the normal going rate!