Rotary Dial Cell Phone!!!

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1/5/12 at 9:55am

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I WANT ONE!!!

Now this is the ultimate "Dumb" phone. Poop on the smart phones!!

Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

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Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

In the Bunyip moon

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1/5/12 at 9:59am

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Oh I remember the rotary dial phones with "doggy bone" type hand set that you listen to. And the wire that wraps around you when you talk alot, standing in one place and you only can go so far with that wire that tethers you there.

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1/5/12 at 10:00am

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And I was a serious walker on those phones!

When I got my first place, mom gave me a new rotary phone with a long cord and said "Now, go walk around and break your own stuff!" lau

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kat - wife to Tim, mom to 3 kiddos (DS 19, DD 17, & DD 14 - the 4H member), 18 chickens - a mix of mostly Polish & Silver Spangled Hamburgs, with a Crevecour and handful of brown egg layers too - - avid quilter, canner, and homemaker :0)

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1/5/12 at 10:01am

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lau

Oh I remember the rotary dial phones with "doggy bone" type hand set that you listen to. And the wire that wraps around you when you talk alot, standing in one place and you only can go so far with that wire that tethers you there.

I remember them too.Im an old goat as well.No spring chicken here. We had the fancy-schmancy one before we got contemporized and got the dog bone one.

You could only goo as far as the cord let you,and would kink up often.

Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

In the Bunyip moon

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Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

In the Bunyip moon

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1/5/12 at 10:14am

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Wall hanging ones, desk types..you can walk with those LOL! Except for the desk ones, it would jump ship if you go too far from your tether!

Cats like to play on the cords, ended up someone keeps getting a busy signal on your end.

I like the "purr" sound it makes when you push the number holes down. Mech. noise it makes when it is dialing the number you are using. Neato!

Now those hand cranked ones, I never could figure those out. The "candlebra" type phones, they are easy enough!

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1/5/12 at 10:24am

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Hand cranked? I wanst born then. Wasnt peoples number like this in "hand cranked" times:

Klondike5-5623??

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Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

In the Bunyip moon

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Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

In the Bunyip moon

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1/5/12 at 10:35am

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Hand cranked? I wanst born then. Wasnt peoples number like this in "hand cranked" times:

Klondike5-5623??

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nah. You have too many digits there. Maybe Klondike 56 or Klondike 562 or Klondike 5623. The full seven digits came later.

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Breeder & Exhibitor of fine silkies in Black, Blue, Splash, Grey, Partridge & Lavender. Working on Dun, Mottled, Partridge dilutions, Paint, Porcelain & other exciting new colours
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1/5/12 at 10:40am

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I WANT ONE!!!

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Now this is the ultimate "Dumb" phone. Poop on the smart phones!!

Very Steampunk!

Oh I remember the rotary dial phones with "doggy bone" type hand set that you listen to. And the wire that wraps around you when you talk alot, standing in one place and you only can go so far with that wire that tethers you there.

I still have one and use it.

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If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

― Chief Seattle

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1/5/12 at 10:42am

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My dad still has the rotary phones. boxes of them, because they dont break easy lol.

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silkies and (projects), sumatras, lakenvelders, frizzles, polish and (projects), black sexlinks, turkeys, red golden pheasants, Peepers, dogs, cats, fish, horses, wild kids, and one very understanding DH, come on over for a visit to the crazy farm

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1/5/12 at 10:46am