OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

[VolPack22]

We had to hide in the closet so our siblings wouldn’t ease drop. Then these bad boys came out. We could go to our rooms.
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Dang we didn’t even have cordless until I was in middle school. Even the kitchen phone was hung up on the wall and corded

 

[Halph66]

Did anybody have a party line. I dated some girls that party lines. The entire neighborhood would be listening in.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I’m the nicest azzhole you’ll ever meet.

My female boss I had once told me that.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Yep and if you messed up 1 number had to start from the beginning. So frustrating

 

[VolPack22]

And every working man had a beeper/pager on their belt. I’m sure most of them ignored it since 90% of the time it was from the Mrs.

 

[knoxvol52]

Similar.
My dad had one with flashing disco lights near the base(I think)
I used to get in so much trouble, putting G.I. Joe’s, He-Man and Hot Wheels on the turn table and turning it on.
Or playing his albums on the wrong speed so they sounded like the chipmunks!
Thanks for the memory 52!!

I took my grandkids over to my moms last week and she showed them records she played growing up. On the way home my granddaughter ask" how did mamaw get those records in a CD player."

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Dang we didn’t even have cordless until I was in middle school. Even the kitchen phone was hung up on the wall and corded

Its called a land line.

 

[VolPack22]

This dude is Andruw Jones in CF reincarnated

 

[knoxvol52]

Did anybody have a party line. I dated some girls that party lines. The entire neighborhood would be listening in.

Yes,for a few years. You could pick up the phone and ease drop on your neighbors bitching about you

 

[VolPack22]

It’s called a land line.

Technically, a cordless phone is still considered a landline if it requires the hardwire coming from the wall…

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Nope my Sisters and I all had these.
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I went to Radio Shack in the 1970s & got me some floor standing speakers (2) that were like 5 ft tall and hooked those up to my stereo receiver.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Technically, a cordless phone is still considered a landline if it requires the hardwire coming from the wall…

I got one of those still working in the house.

 

[Halph66]

And every working man had a beeper/pager on their belt. I’m sure most of them ignored it since 90% of the time it was from the Mrs.

When I first started working I had a one man plant. I was on call 24-7. I had a pager and a Motorola bag phone in my company truck.

 

[Halph66]

I went to Radio Shack in the 1970s & got me some floor standing speakers (2) that were like 5 ft tall and hooked those up to my stereo receiver.

Cerwin Vega

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Faizon just decommitted because of this.

Don't be saying chit like this. You want to give me a

 

[TN Jed]

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My parents still have one (not in use). We tried to get my daughter and her friend to figure out how to use it. Totally confused them

 

[TN Jed]

Cerwin Vega
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Sweet! I actually wish I had those at the house.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

When I first started working I had a one man plant. I was on call 24-7. I had a pager and a Motorola bag phone in my company truck.

Sucked to be you then.

 

[Halph66]

Somebody on Facebook posted these. Where can we get these.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Cerwin Vega
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That's what I had at one time. Turn the volume up & neighbors come to their door looking at you like WTF dude?

 

[TN Jed]

Somebody on Facebook posted these. Where can we get these.
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Don't know, but someone is ready to say Buck Fama.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Somebody on Facebook posted these. Where can we get these.
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Ask the person who posted that.

 

[VolPack22]

Don't be saying chit like this. You want to give me a

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Honestly I just don’t want another repeat of Nico. Hopefully Faizon was raised by better parents. If not, then I just don’t even want to bother. If you are 5 star rated then I need you to have a 5 star upbringing too, otherwise it’s just going to be drama and I don’t want that poisoning the program. With this new era that’s just the way it’s going to have to be.

 

[Halph66]

Ask the person who posted that.

I did.
Libation Station. $16.

Libation Station & Plaza Package |

 

[TN Jed]

Somebody on Facebook posted these. Where can we get these.
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Texted a buddy of mine that is a cigar aficionado....here's what he said...."Never seen them before. Smokey’s over near the mall or Blue Smoke down on Ebenezer at Cedar Bluff maybe. "