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Micah@rincewind.run |
“Once upon a time, my child, they put everyone’s name and telephone number in a big book… and they just gave it to everyone. You could simply call a stranger and they would pick up the phone.” “They’d answer it? Come on, grandpa, at least make it somewhat plausible.”
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Cabbage
@weecabbage.bsky.social
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I don't even know what I'm supposed to boost small children up to reach the table with anymore! Those were structural books!
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Meghan
@megthehopeful.bsky.social
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It is weird to me that people are so squeamish about their phone numbers but then will have essentially an open listening device in their homes and send their DNA off to venture capitalists.
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tbd
@tumescentnumpty.bsky.social
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Sometimes they'd have school assemblies where somebody would rip the book in half as a lesson to stay off drugs or not have premarital sex or something
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Bill H
@dahoovster.bsky.social
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< Steve Martin voice > I am somebody!
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Neil Ramsay
@nramsay.bsky.social
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These days, 99% of my calls to the house phone are spam (I have a house line, 'cause I don't like to carry my cell around the house, and also I run a business from here). But MOST of them hang up before I even get close enough to a phone to look at the incoming number. Even scammers hate the phone.
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Nataly 🏳️⚧️
@nightpups.bsky.social
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And people would fight to be at the front of the book so they would get called more often!
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darko barsoomian
@darkoverlordofdata.bsky.social
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I hated it. Phone calls could interrupt anything. Now I have revenge - I never answer my smart phone.
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+1 Pen of Smiting
@penofsmiting.bsky.social
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...It was called "crank calling."
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tomstpatrick
@tomstpatrick.bsky.social
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🤣🤣🙏
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Nop (he/him) 🍉 PUSSY IN BIO
@voxexsinister.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember when my state had 6 digit phone numbers.
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Breaking Impossible
@breakingimpossible.bsky.social
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You may also enjoy this completely really real thing...
www.theswedishnumber.com
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@timscurtin.bsky.social
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Looking forward to future generations encountering the visual language of The Ominous Phone Call in old movies
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