Who of you have never used a rotary phone?

Kburjr said:
Or have never driven a manual transmission?

Or have watched a Black and White TV?
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Rotary phone, yes
Manual, driven yes but never owned.
Black and white TV, don't think so. Watched black and white shows/movies but don't think ever on an actual black and white TV. Had a small TV that would get colors out of whack depending on the reception is probably the closest I got.
 
Kburjr said:
The first time I watched The Wizard of Oz on a color tv I was astounded by the change to color when Dorothy woke up from the nader.
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fordman84 said:
And then if you go forward 10 years from these things you get pagers. And I was explaining to my son how I accidentally called 911 once and hung up. I started talking about pagers and he looked at me like I was speaking another language.
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Speaking of calling for movies and accidentally dialing 911 my sister did that once when trying to get movie times. I have no idea how that phone conversation went or how that got so miscommunicated because the cops ended up at our house thinking it was an emergency.
 
Remember the old slide dial cable boxes? That had the "fine tune" wheel on the side? And after school but before parents got home you would set the dial to the adult channel and use the fine tune dial to try to hopefully see a boob?


yeah me either
 
steelerssb said:
Speaking of calling for movies and accidentally dialing 911 my sister did that once when trying to get movie times. I have no idea how that phone conversation went or how that got so miscommunicated because the cops ended up at our house thinking it was an emergency.
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I was trying to page a buddy with *911 after my number so he knew it was super urgent. Got all mixed up and started with the 911 part and hung up. They called back within seconds and I explained what happened. NO biggie, happened all the time they said. Then asked some questions to make sure I wasn't under duress and hung up.
 
whenever i think of a rotary phone, i think of the white one my great grandmother had in her living room when i was a kid. that woman, Godbless her, deaf as could be, so she had the ring volume set to full blast on that motherfucker. and if, by chance, someone happened to call during evening hours when it was relatively quiet in the house, that phone ringing would scare the ever-loving bejesus out of you, have you jumping like a damn cat.
 
Lulz. My Mom still rented her rotary phone from the phone company up until about 10-15 years ago. LOL

That fucking thing was steel. Weighed a chunk, and would absolutely kill someone if ya brained em upside the head.


We had a fixed rotary on the wall as kids, with a ccord that was like eleventy gazillion feet long. LOL. You could almost get to every room in the house, including downstairs, cuz we had a spiral staircase.
 
How many can say they used one of these?

Me? Not to make an actual phone call.

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ojb81 said:
whenever i think of a rotary phone, i think of the white one my great grandmother had in her living room when i was a kid. that woman, Godbless her, deaf as could be, so she had the ring volume set to full blast on that motherfucker. and if, by chance, someone happened to call during evening hours when it was relatively quiet in the house, that phone ringing would scare the ever-loving bejesus out of you, have you jumping like a damn cat.
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haha, same here. And my grandmothers had a handset that had a volume wheel on the underside of the where you hold it. She had that cranked up too. So you would pick it up and the dial tone (another thing kids these days don't know of) would deafen you.
 
Jon Deaux said:
Rode in an old car that had an auto-tran. It had push buttons to change gears
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My parents bough a new beige 1963 Plymouth 9 passenger station wagon with a 170 hp slant-6. Had the pushbuttons on left side of steering wheel. It also had a fold-up back seat facing the rear so us kids could look out the rear window and make faces and gestures at the cars behind us! :dhd:

Something like this one, only with stock hubcaps ... :heh:

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