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Old 04-13-23, 02:40 AM
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I bought a new sofa.

My old sofa didn't make the move to my new house. So I bought a new one. I needed throw pillows, so I went C & V.

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Is tht a phone base? You're really living the C&V life!
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Is tht a phone base? You're really living the C&V life!
Yup. I don't own a cell phone. I figure, I made it 62+ years without one, I can make it the rest of my life. But, it is getting harder and harder.

It is cordless. Do I at least get partial credit?

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My phone is on the kitchen wall, and has a curly cord.
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Why not go "all-out"?
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Hey folks, we are here to talk about bike pillows. Enough with the phone highjack.
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Well, I still have this one and actually used it in the early '90s.

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My uncle had a collection of several hundred vintage phones that he passed on to my dad when I was a child (he died far too young). For years my dad was one of the main purveyors of antique phones during the early days of eBay, and he got really good at restoring them (he's a mechanic by trade). Ah, good memories... Boxes and boxes of phones everywhere!

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Originally Posted by Peruano
Hey folks, we are here to talk about bike pillows. Enough with the phone highjack.
OP pillow-hijacked his own sofa thread. Keep up!
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Originally Posted by Peruano
Hey folks, we are here to talk about bike pillows. Enough with the phone highjack.
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OP pillow-hijacked his own sofa thread. Keep up!



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Originally Posted by madpogue
My phone is on the kitchen wall, and has a curly cord.
Nothing good can ever come of those ones.

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This is what happens to telephones today.


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This is what happens to telephones today.


He kept calling me. And every time he called, I hung up the the phone.
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Well, I still have this one and actually used it in the early '90s.

And I thought my uncle was a retrogrouch for using one of those in the early `60s...
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When I first saw the title of this post, I thought for sure I was going to see a bike with a too-long top-tube, stem too big and perhaps saddle set too far back. My long-distance bike has the first two, and I love the way it stretches me out on long rides. I call it my "lounge chair".
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Originally Posted by 79pmooney
He kept calling me. And every time he called, I hung up the the phone.
That's ridiculous. Who would do that to a perfectly sensible, grey wall?
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Originally Posted by Bianchigirll
Now THAT's getting SERIOUS!

"Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"
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Originally Posted by Peruano
Hey folks, we are here to talk about bike pillows. Enough with the phone highjack.
Perhaps you should call Mike Lindell and talk about pillows.., on a vintage telephone!!
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"We're the phone company: we don't care; we don't have to."
Some things never change.
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When the phone company first allowed you to provide your own phone, I had to get one with a switch to convert the button tones to pulses because the local phone company had not yet upgraded from the rotary dial system.
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Originally Posted by gearbasher
My old sofa didn't make the move to my new house. So I bought a new one. I needed throw pillows, so I went C & V.

almost the logo for The Village.
Be seeing You.
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Originally Posted by Pompiere
When the phone company first allowed you to provide your own phone, I had to get one with a switch to convert the button tones to pulses because the local phone company had not yet upgraded from the rotary dial system.
GTE invested in a third story on a building in WLA and a whole additional floor of electromechanical switches just before tone dialing took off. Western Electric made the equipment.

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