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Ah, the DIRECT-TO-GOD Orange Wireless! I had one of those once, before the accident.
ReplyDeleteMust be Carter's "Fire!" emergency phone
ReplyDeleteIf this is indeed a phone to God, for goodness' sakes, don't dial the "Feuer" or "Notruf" extensions! If my German is correct, they mean "Fire" and "Emergency." Let's avoid any unnecessary goading.
ReplyDeleteIts a good thing people had stronger fingers in the old days or else going through voicemail menus with those rotary dials must have been hell.
ReplyDeleteNo, non de querre, people broke their fingers using these phones, quite often, and that is why the "old days" were condemned and transcended, and we now have the RIGHT KIND of phones, which do not require the old finger breaking dialing. Now we use our fingers for tapping, and are able to search are voicemail menus with hardly any physical effort. For we are spiritual beings now . . .
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