Actually I still have several phones in the house that I can still slam down. But nothing could take a slam like a 500D Western Electric rotary telephone. These were industrial strength phones made to last 40 years and beyond.
If you have one of these phones working in your house it will be there long after your 'smart' phone dies, or the next one, or the next one.
Oh and HNY!
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Wish you and your family a happy New Year 2017. Let this year be a happy one:) Agree with your words. Always old is gold. They live for longer period of time...
I've often wondered why we don't make cars and airplanes out of bakelite - they'd survive any crash. HNY to you and Claudia, too!
Those old phones would have survived nuclear war. Things were so overbuilt - like cars! And did you kids know that you could NOT own a phone?! It remained property of the phone company! Thanks for the memories, Mike
Good point about those old phones compared to their weak wimpy descendants of today. Now everything is disposable not expected to have a long life as they get replaced by the next technological wonder that comes along. Me? I like having a phone to make and receive calls on. Now I've learned to come up with words rather than phone slamming. I never was much of a phone slammer anyway, but it's good to know that you could slam one or even throw it across a room and it would survive the abuse.
Arlee Bird
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Planned obsolescence is a curse of greedy capitalism. I remember those phones well. It'd take a steamroller to damage one!
HNY! Let's hope that it's improved and not just new.
Happy New Year, Mike! Sorry I've not been commenting much but there's many a day when I've come to your blog just to find a reason to smile - and you always provide it! God bless you and your funny bone, my friend.
That's so true!
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