| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
sgt.null jack of odd trades; master of fun

  Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 36309
Thanks: 32 Thanked 45 Times in 44 Posts
Location: texas 857 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:56 am Post subject: |
|
|
Alex Graham invented the phone. he used to call Sherlock Holme's assistant, Dr. Watson. (great grandfather of Emily Watson.) seems someone called Deaf Smith after that, but he was busy scouting for Sam Houston. Sam was a friend of Stephen Austin, great grandfather of Steve Austin, the six million dollar man. Steve's boss was Oscar Goldman, first husband of Goldie Hawn. _________________ “life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
― E.E. Cummings |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
MsMary Riddlemaster

  Joined: 06 Mar 2002 Posts: 5213
Thanks: 7 Thanked 12 Times in 9 Posts
5893 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
|
|
| onewyteduck wrote: | It was the hot guy who came to install your phone that really mattered!  |
I'll drink to that.  _________________ - I'm always all right.
- Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?
__________________________
THOOLAH member since 2005
EZBoard Survivor |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Blackhawk the Render and Illender

 Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 927
Thanks: 18 Thanked 10 Times in 10 Posts
Location: CA 2771 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
hehe..yeah...its real, or was..i guess your showing us our age with that one  |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
rbwright Stonedownor

 Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 48
Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Location: Wylie, TX 439 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:


|
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hey baby I'm the telephone man...
Oops, I'm showing my age now, but I digest... |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Pitchbrew Servant of the Land

Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 16
Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Location: Starfare's Gem 17 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:

|
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:13 am Post subject: the bell |
|
|
| I worked for the Ohio bell telephone company, which split in 86 from att the ohio bell was seperate for a number of years until aquired by SBC, SBC later collected most of the previous bells in 13 states, and then started into the wireless venture with cingular wireless in partnership with bellsouth....cingular wireless aquired ATT wireless, then ATT was purchased by SBC and SBC took the ATT moniker...then ATT aquired Bellsouth, and combined ATT wireless with Cingular wireless, and called it cingular, and then changed the name back to ATT wireless....those of us in the company know of a video used for managers that stated...."Ma Bell rises again"......and ATT was the american telegraph and telephone company.....created in part by bell himself I believe not sure here but the rest is true and happened mostly in the last 5 years or so |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Cameraman Jenn Arch Pimpager

  Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 13110
Thanks: 6 Thanked 32 Times in 32 Posts
Location: Omaha Nebraska 479146 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Ur Dead The Gap Into Spam

 Joined: 12 Sep 2006 Posts: 1121
Thanks: 3 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts
153 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:26 am Post subject: |
|
|
See!! I told ya that Ma Bell was AT&T
(Another Tits and Tushie)
&
 _________________ What's this silver looking ring doing on my finger? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
hue of bone Haruchai

Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 556
Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts
122 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: |
|
|
Regarding the Bell Telephone Company, what color envelopes are bills sent out in? _________________ . . . that power is the anchor of the arch of life, that spans and masters Time: and white - white gold, not ebon, ichor, incarnadine, viridian - because white is the hue of bone; structure of flesh, discipline of life . . . |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Savor Dam Will Be Herd

  Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 3099
Thanks: 24 Thanked 21 Times in 20 Posts
Location: Pacific NorthWet 1045 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:04 am Post subject: |
|
|
White...with a little cellophane window so that the address on the bill shows through, allowing them to only print your name and address once per mailing.
And just as AT&T is the modern spawn of Ma Bell, Verizon is the scion of GTE. _________________ Love prevails.
~ Tracie Mckinney-Hammon
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
shadowbinding shoe The Gap Into Spam

Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 1067
Thanks: 1 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts
1822 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
So answer me this: was there a stamp glued to the envelope (which Thomas Covenant could melt off the envelope and add to his stamp collection) or was there one of those painted stamp pictures that just looks like a stamp but isn't good for anything?
(answer must be given in less than three years!) |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
MsMary Riddlemaster

  Joined: 06 Mar 2002 Posts: 5213
Thanks: 7 Thanked 12 Times in 9 Posts
5893 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
Postage meter.
You think someone in the phone company was going to lick all those stamps?  _________________ - I'm always all right.
- Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?
__________________________
THOOLAH member since 2005
EZBoard Survivor |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Savor Dam Will Be Herd

  Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 3099
Thanks: 24 Thanked 21 Times in 20 Posts
Location: Pacific NorthWet 1045 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:18 am Post subject: |
|
|
| MsMary wrote: | You think someone in the phone company was going to lick all those stamps?  |
Actually, yes. Therein lies a critically important story...a Grima tale, indeed!
According to the most current research, both the mucilage on the stamps (LFB was written prior to the introduction of peel-and-stick stamps that need not be licked) and on the envelopes was derived from the slug trails of the Worm of the World's End.
The unfortunate wage slave whose job it was to lick all the stamps and envelopes ended up ingesting so much of the WotWE's excretions that he morphed into a character from an entirely different fantasy series.
Yes, our poor licker-and-sticker ended up in the Lord of the Rings books as a henchman of Saruman and the advisor (qua betrayer) of King Théoden of Rohan!
Surely you have heard of Wormtongue?
 _________________ Love prevails.
~ Tracie Mckinney-Hammon
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
MsMary Riddlemaster

  Joined: 06 Mar 2002 Posts: 5213
Thanks: 7 Thanked 12 Times in 9 Posts
5893 White Gold Dollars
Tokens
HP
User Items:
  

|
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
 _________________ - I'm always all right.
- Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?
__________________________
THOOLAH member since 2005
EZBoard Survivor |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
|