[VoIP] Telephone History, or Smoke Signals ...

[Mad Mark]

My goodness, I had a nice little giggle at these messages. Where did these anecdotes come from? I've found it so difficult to find telephone humor.

> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:49:37 -0400
> From: chad at maine.edu
> To: voip at ckts.info
> Subject: [VoIP] Telephone History, or Smoke Signals ...
> 
> 
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> 
> After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish 
> scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and 
> came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone 
> network more than
> 100 years ago.
> 
> 
> 
> Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English 
> scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, headlines in 
> the UK newspapers read: 'English archaeologists have found traces 
> of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors 
> already had an advanced high-tech communications network a 
> hundred years earlier than the Scots.'
> 
> 
> 
> One week later, 'The Daily Squidjigger,' a Newfoundland 
> newspaper, reported the following:
> 
> 'After digging as deep as 30 meters near Cornerbrook, Wilf 
> Johnson, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he found 
> absolutely nothing.
> 
> 
> Wilf has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Newfoundland had 
> already gone wireless.'
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Also:
> An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to 
> report that her telephone failed to ring ... 
> when her friends called - and that on the few occasions 
> when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before 
> the phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded to the 
> scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady.
> He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, 
> and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring 
> right away, but then the dog moaned loudly and the 
> telephone began to ring.
> Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman 
> found:
> *   The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground 
>     wire via a steel chain and collar. 
> *   The wire connection to the ground rod was loose. 
> *   The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current 
>     when the phone number was called. 
> *   After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start 
>     moaning and then urinate on himself and the ground. 
> *   The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus 
>     causing the phone to ring. 
> Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by 
> pissing and moaning.
> 
> 
> 
> ------- End of forwarded message -------
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