We used to have 1 (one) pay phone remaining in our small town, sort of right on the main corner of the business district. Alas, some years ago, they tore that one down too. Can’t remember the last time I saw a pay phone .. except for perhaps on American Pickers.
Hear the ring, and depending on the number, click ‘talk’ then ‘off’, or say hello to permitted caller. Hate when the scammers use the answering machine to spread verbal fertilizer on my time.
My contacts and those businesses with which I do business have distinct ring tones. Everyone else has the default ring tone. If I hear the default ring tone, I don’t answer. They seldom leave voice mails either.
I still have a land line. It has caller ID. I also have nomorobo. Most robotdialers ring once and then stop. At any rate, If I don’t recognize the ID, I don’t answer, and I never answer during dinner no matter who it is.
Ummm…I seem to remember a “B.C.” strip from a few decades ago (I think it was in the seventies) where one of them had invented a telephone. A second caveman (I forget which ones they were) said, “Let’s make a call!” and the first one said, “We can’t. I only invented one!”
Alexander Graham Bell was making a fence with some wood and a long piece of wire. He said “There’ something strange going on around here. I keep hearing the voice of uncle Meyer.” “I told him Mr Graham Cracker (That was my little joke), with that wire you’ve got the world in your power. Just get an earpiece and a mouthpiece and a piece in between and you’ll sponsor the telephone hour!”
More mess ups by the education devices in their artificially made caves. Made for them by the people who made them and the to her life-forms to survive and come back as the new human race. They hadn’t planned on the cannibals across the ocean.
Mordock999 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
No quite WRONG!
You have to invent Caller I.D. First……….,
Enter.Name.Here almost 5 years ago
“It doesn’t work yet. I’m still working on something I call “The Phone Company”…"
https://youtu.be/iFRc6nt4hbQ
jdbligh almost 5 years ago
Ugh. Voice mail is much worse.
DaveG1960 almost 5 years ago
Helps if you have 2 of them as well..
Watcher almost 5 years ago
You forgot the coin slot or rock slot.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Why panic? It could be the lottery commission.
Meg: All Seriousness Aside almost 5 years ago
Nice job, Mr Ameche.
mrcooncat almost 5 years ago
We used to have 1 (one) pay phone remaining in our small town, sort of right on the main corner of the business district. Alas, some years ago, they tore that one down too. Can’t remember the last time I saw a pay phone .. except for perhaps on American Pickers.
hfergus Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I barely remember party lines. And telephone answering machines in my area were around long before caller ID was.
Zebrastripes almost 5 years ago
My first experience with the phone was when you picked up the receiver, a voice said, “NUMBER PLEASE”.
Geophyzz almost 5 years ago
The lack of any enclosure around the phone explains why SuperCaveMan has yet to appear in the strip.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
What is with the curly power cable? Is that a manual batter charging spinner thing in the middle? sigh…
sandpiper almost 5 years ago
Hear the ring, and depending on the number, click ‘talk’ then ‘off’, or say hello to permitted caller. Hate when the scammers use the answering machine to spread verbal fertilizer on my time.
DanFlak almost 5 years ago
My contacts and those businesses with which I do business have distinct ring tones. Everyone else has the default ring tone. If I hear the default ring tone, I don’t answer. They seldom leave voice mails either.
I still have a land line. It has caller ID. I also have nomorobo. Most robotdialers ring once and then stop. At any rate, If I don’t recognize the ID, I don’t answer, and I never answer during dinner no matter who it is.
rshive almost 5 years ago
Has voice mail been invented yet?
JudyHendrickson almost 5 years ago
whats that a teenagerwould say!!!
JPuzzleWhiz almost 5 years ago
Ummm…I seem to remember a “B.C.” strip from a few decades ago (I think it was in the seventies) where one of them had invented a telephone. A second caveman (I forget which ones they were) said, “Let’s make a call!” and the first one said, “We can’t. I only invented one!”
assrdood almost 5 years ago
Describes my reaction to numbers I don’t recognize. Telemarketers and “robos” really pi$$ me off.
Mediatech almost 5 years ago
Inside the phone is a parrot, who will take you message, then fly to the receiving phone and repeat it.
1953Baby almost 5 years ago
Remember when the people you were with were more important than the phone????
viking-riverrat almost 5 years ago
Wow, this is prehistoric, it’s a land line.
KEA almost 5 years ago
I fixed mine so it doesn’t ring… just goes straight to voicemail.
Cesar almost 5 years ago
Jajaja. So true.
eladee AKA Wally almost 5 years ago
Exactly.
Jml58 almost 5 years ago
Hallo Central.
fgerbil46 almost 5 years ago
Sounds about right.
CoffeeBob Premium Member almost 5 years ago
If you pick up the receiver, do you hear Lilly Tomlin?
falcon_370f almost 5 years ago
Alexander Graham Bell was making a fence with some wood and a long piece of wire. He said “There’ something strange going on around here. I keep hearing the voice of uncle Meyer.” “I told him Mr Graham Cracker (That was my little joke), with that wire you’ve got the world in your power. Just get an earpiece and a mouthpiece and a piece in between and you’ll sponsor the telephone hour!”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
More mess ups by the education devices in their artificially made caves. Made for them by the people who made them and the to her life-forms to survive and come back as the new human race. They hadn’t planned on the cannibals across the ocean.