They Should Bring Back Party Lines

The pencil industry would be devastated by the reintroduction of crank telephones.

How is someone who is old enough to remember party lines able to use a computer? Is your twinky nurse aide posting for you OP?

OP, you are dumb, and you idea is bad.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents “Party Line“ episode.

Party lines existed commonly enough until the 1980s that rules and instructions were printed in the Bell Telephone books

If party lines re-appeared, it would make the DL implode from all the gossip that was listened in on.

It’d be real stinky in here too, from all the excited farts.

And sharts.

They aren’t needed now. It was a way to save hardware on copper lines.

Today’s challenge is how to keep copper-based phone companies, such as in West Virginia, solvent. They are failing today and there is no mobile service in much of the mountainous region. They still use dial-up internet’s there.

Like the TVA, we need and “internetification” of Appalachia. Better yet, just close the whole thing down and sent them to Montana.

When my sister gets complaints from irate West Virginians that they want to cancel service, she just says “ok”, because she knows that there is no other option. She’s a modern day Ernestine.

Even their own call centers aren’t located in West Virginia, God help them.

Poor people have cell phones, OP.

I grew up so far out in the country that we were on a party line until 1985 or so. There were three houses on our line, our ring was one long and two short. My sister had a very light touch and could lift the receiver without the other ends hearing and used to spend hours eavesdropping.

Once we got our own line and we able to get touch tone dialing I really felt like we’d entered the Eighties.

They should bring back coolies and rickshaws too. It might give the homeless something to do and help with global warming.

West Virginia has that big space where cell phones and radios are illegal.

Even the poorest people have expensive smartphones.

If you whippersnappers can't grasp the concept of a party line, just watch this movie.

I'm sure parts of West Virginia have not made cell phones illegal.

[quote]Even the poorest people have expensive smartphones.

And even the poorest of people can come up with party lines.

R14, not only cell phones but also radios, microwaves, and engines with spark starters. It’s been this way since the 1950s.

The whole concept of a Party Line has been hijacked by the cowardly, sycophantic Republican Party.

[quote] R10: They should bring back coolies and rickshaws too. It might give the homeless something to do and help with global warming.

A lot of states already allow human powered Rickshaws.

“They”? Who is “they”, OP?

r14

You sure are dumb