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From: <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Party lines
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:14:07 -0600
References: <000f01c8798c$b30a7b10$650a0a0a@MikeVaughn>
In-Reply-To: <000f01c8798c$b30a7b10$650a0a0a@MikeVaughn>
Mike wrote:
> Does anyone remember the days before telephone numbers or even before
> operators connected the calls -- when receiving a phone call was signaled
> by a series of rings -- longs and shorts, i.e., your number might be 2
> longs and 1 short?
Mike, Dick Pence, who so often contributes his insights to this list, wrote
a funny little book called _Two Longs and a Short._ You'd probably find it
as delightful as I did.
Elizabeth
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