tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post116345950666756228..comments2023-12-30T03:14:14.776-05:00Comments on pearlies of wisdom: DIAL That Numbertorontopearlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12246510242496347242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163566226605074532006-11-14T23:50:00.000-05:002006-11-14T23:50:00.000-05:00Thats funnyI actually have a rotary phne in my bas...Thats funny<BR/>I actually have a rotary phne in my basement..that we use during blackouts when all the fancy phines become obsoleteDavid_on_the_Lakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755322374991538262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163542805630759382006-11-14T17:20:00.000-05:002006-11-14T17:20:00.000-05:00The rotary phone, okay... but an ice cube tray now...The rotary phone, okay... but an ice cube tray now? Wow. Now I'M getting old.Ezziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163529228531946432006-11-14T13:33:00.000-05:002006-11-14T13:33:00.000-05:00LOL great post Pearl...in keeping with the whole p...LOL great post Pearl...in keeping with the whole phone thing...there are practically no pay phones left here. They are removing them all, because everyone and their brother has a cell phone. Remember the old expression: "Hey, it's your dime...start talking".cruisin-momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16640061323519954002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163528011997036702006-11-14T13:13:00.000-05:002006-11-14T13:13:00.000-05:00When my son was very young, we bought him two diff...When my son was very young, we bought him two different kinds of toy telephones, one with a rotary dial, one with push buttons, just so that he would recognize and know how to use both. I strongly doubt that toy rotary phones even exist anymore. Now, you probably have your choice of push phone or cell models.<BR/><BR/>I tried to put aside a few odds and ends for the (future, we hope) grandchildren. I hope I can still find those few sheets of carbon paper and the few "original" floppies--from the days when floppies were actually floppy, and could be bent--by the time they're needed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163527483934378542006-11-14T13:04:00.000-05:002006-11-14T13:04:00.000-05:00I put my foot down when my son was a kid--I flat-o...I put my foot down when my son was a kid--I flat-out refused to allow him to own a digital watch until he was well into his teens and I was absolutely sure that he could read the time on an analog watch. I think that it would really be a great shame if all the beautiful old public clocks, such as London's Big Ben and our own locally-famous one, the clock in the Main Hall at Grand Central Station, became incomprehensible to the average person under 35. There's also the detail--something that we "language people" (BA in French, here) can appreciate--that the words "clockwise" and "counterclockwise" mean absolutely nothing to someone who can't read an analog clock.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163524881463894172006-11-14T12:21:00.000-05:002006-11-14T12:21:00.000-05:00What's amazing to me is that we still commonly use...What's amazing to me is that we still commonly use the terminology "dialing" a call, even though dial phones have been all but obsolete for decades. It shows how long it takes language to change. My all-time favorite in this category is when we say a light "blew out". That must date back at least a century, to when homes were lit with gasjets instead of incandescent bulbs! Yet people still say it all the time.Eliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15979263918394127210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163521869513425342006-11-14T11:31:00.000-05:002006-11-14T11:31:00.000-05:00I loved this! I had a beige one just like that in ...I loved this! I had a beige one just like that in my room as a young teenager. It was so heavy! Remember you had to pay extra for touchtone dialing? Such progress. Thanks for the smile!Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10278030121321627368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163470317841494752006-11-13T21:11:00.000-05:002006-11-13T21:11:00.000-05:00It's hard to envision being surprised by a rotary ...It's hard to envision being surprised by a rotary phone. But then again, I never experienced the 'party lines' that my parents took for granted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9620911.post-1163460171105125692006-11-13T18:22:00.000-05:002006-11-13T18:22:00.000-05:00great post...when i took my kids back to windsor f...great post...when i took my kids back to windsor for the first time, i ran to show them the detroit river...my son,4, turned to me and said in hebrew...oh mom what a big bathtub that is...azoychen vei i thought and took them across the street to buy them a dairy queen.marallyn ben moshehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04687599765928616825noreply@blogger.com