Lost Phone

[Norm]

Candlestick?

 

[Chuffy]

Candlestick?

Those are only acceptable if you have to ring the operator and trill 'I want Tilling 5847 please' in very clipped and precise RP.

 

[Speicher]

That's the one. As soon as I finished my post, I remembered the name, thanks for posting the link, so that others may know about what I am talking.

 

[Perfect Virgo]

I use my Candlestick phone all the time. I find it works best if you continually rattle the disconnect button and say "Operator, operator?" in a raised, posh voice.

 

[Speicher]

Those are only acceptable if you have to ring the operator and trill 'I want Tilling 5847 please' in very clipped and precise RP.

You will be aware, Mister Chuffy of Devonshire, that such apparatus will go very well indeed with my tweed suit, my bicycle with wicker pannier, and my copy of the Torquay Herald.

 

[Speicher]

I use my Candlestick phone all the time. I find it works best if you continually rattle the disconnect button and say "Operator, operator?" in a raised, posh voice.

Good gracious me! Do you not have your Butler do that, and then he brings you the telephone when the connection is made?

Or perhaps you call them Valets in Charlottetown?

 

[Perfect Virgo]

Good gracious me! Do you not have your Butler do that, and then he brings you the telephone when the connection is made?

Or perhaps you call them Valets in Charlottetown?

Valets...valets? That's preposterous! They went out decades ago, you ask my scullery maid!

Actually the wires for everything are carried overhead on leaning, creosoted wooden poles, so road junctions have a curious and complicated lattice above.

 

[Mr Pig]

Life is so much simpler when you have a 'phone attached to the skirting boards in your house

Have you ever noticed that when things advance they don't really get better? I used to have a big cream coloured telephone with dial on the front, great phone. One day a BT chap came out to the house for some reason or other and he took it away! Said it was incompatible with the new wires or something and left me with a flat push-button effort. Apart from the lack of style, the new phone did not sound as nice as the old one.

Later that phone was in turn replaced by another, better featured phone which sounded worse again. The digital cordless phones we have now sound truly horrid, quite nasty.

It's the same with everything. My swish Nokia mobile has poorer sound quality than the really basic Nokia I had before. My son just got a new Yamaha mini hi-fi for his room, which sounds worse than the ancient receiver he's had up until now.

And so I could go on. LP verses CD, CD verses MP3. It's quite discouraging.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Snorri! There was me thinking I was the only one with a telephone device like that. Have you still got one with the little circles and its goes round and sort of clicks.

They sell those in a shop in Ross. £69 each. I mean, they're antiques and everything, but sixty nine quid?

 

[Coco]

I used to have a big cream coloured telephone with dial on the front, great phone.

Here you go

 

[Norm]

Although I didn't (and wouldn't!) get it from IWOOT, that is the phone that I have.

 

[Chuffy]

You will be aware, Mister Chuffy of Devonshire, that such apparatus will go very well indeed with my tweed suit, my bicycle with wicker pannier, and my copy of the Torquay Herald.

What a lovely image, although it's the Herald Express now dear.

Incidentally, there are bonus points on offer if you can tell me who might answer if you rang Tilling 5647.

 

[Speicher]

An interesting Challenge Mr Chuffy, give me time to think about it.

I will ask Mrs Dobkins at the Post Office, when I collect today's edition of the Herald Express. She has a cousin who works for Cracklington Biscuits, who joined the Navy in 1952. It's his nephew who would know all about these telephonic numerals.

By the way, I did so enjoy my holiday in Churston last month.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Incidentally, there are bonus points on offer if you can tell me who might answer if you rang Tilling 5647.

Off topic but still telephone number related...

I remember someone once telling me about this chap who when young his family had the telephone number Moreton-in-Marsh 2. He was quite upset it wasn't Moreton-in-Marsh 1.

 

[Chuffy]

An interesting Challenge Mr Chuffy, give me time to think about it.

it's the place, rather than the actual number btw...