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   dtroutma said, 10 months ago

   Michele Bachmann and Michelle Obama??
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   Alice Raunsbæk said, 10 months ago

   “White courtesy phone”?
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   d_legendary1 said, 10 months ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesy_telephone
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   David Glover said, 10 months ago

   Some of our younger respondants won’t get this—thank God!
   (Prol’ly won’t get a "phone-on-the-wall either.)
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   MortyForTyrant said, 10 months ago

   @Alice Raunsbæk

   Watch the movie “Airport” (1970). Back then it was usual to announce through the PA-system “Mr. Miller, please pick up the [color] courtesy phone” in airports, malls etc. because there were no mobile phones. “White” here is a joke on race and nobody can explain jokes…
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   masterskrain said, 10 months ago

   “SNERK”!

   So does that mean that “The Red Courtesy Phone” is only for Native Americans??
   “Paging Captain Oveur! Paging Captain Oveur! Please Pick up the White Courtesy Phone!”
   “No, I said the WHITE Courtesy Phone…”
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   onguard said, 10 months ago

   Sometimes Tooners just draw a blank…….. Oxymoron?
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   ODon said, 10 months ago

   You can use the white phone just don’t park in the white lanes.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 10 months ago

   @masterskrain

   You’re talking about “Airplane”, right? I never saw the original English version, just the German translation. In that the two African Americans talking so animatedly to each other in the plane are speaking thick Bavarian accents! That’s probably even more hilarious than the original…
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    danketaz said, 10 months ago

    Boffo!
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    ahab said, 10 months ago

    When did they designate a phone exclusive to albinos?
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    Wabbit said, 10 months ago

    I have never heard of this,
    but I assume it is a white phone so it’s easy to see.
    Better if they had used lime green or bright orange.
    I don’t know where these phones are used..
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    MortyForTyrant said, 10 months ago

    @Wabbit

    If I remember right there was also a technological advantage. See, you didn’t have to do anything after picking up, you were connected to the switchboard automatically and then “taken off the loop”. So Mr. Smith could be asked to pick up “the nearest” (they often were arranged in clusters throughout the building) red CP, Mr. Miller the nearest yellow CP, Ms. Barlow the nearest white CP and by then the red “open loop” would be free again (Mr. Smith would have picked up and been separated from the loop) and the cycle would restart. This system was basically for everybody in the area (airport, mall), passengers, employees, contractors and so on. Pretty clever, given the limitations of technology back then…
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    4my10851cs said, 10 months ago

    EVERYTHING has to be PC now - HOW STUPID
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    Jase99 said, 10 months ago

    @4my10851cs

    “EVERYTHING has to be PC now – HOW STUPID”
    
    I hear that a lot from Mac users.
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