Official Other Teams Training Camp Thread

[pbmax]

About 1998 there was still a rotary dial phone backstage of a theater we were using for a community play. A girl of about 12 needed to use the phone and was directed to its whereabouts. I'll never forget the mystified, bewildered look on her face as she re-appeared--stymied by wheel holes where the buttons should have been. She had a kind of "You have got to be kidding me!" look on her face as we described how fingers go into the numbered holes and spin up to the stop before letting it go to spin back and then do the next number. Sounds weird if you have to explain it.

Hated dialing them (especially if you had a 9 in the number you had to dial) but loved the sound and the handsets were vastly superior to anything today.

I have an Official NFL Helmet phone downstairs, but its a fancy push button.

[smuggler]

I wouldn't mind an old-timey handset, if I ever get a landline.

[Patler]

Hated dialing them (especially if you had a 9 in the number you had to dial) but loved the sound and the handsets were vastly superior to anything today.

When we got our first rotary, within our own exchange all we had to dial were the last four digits. It still seemed to take a long time.

[denverYooper]

When we got our first rotary, within our own exchange all we had to dial were the last four digits. It still seemed to take a long time.

Until I was 10 or so, we only had to dial 5 digits and my grandparents still had a party line.

[Maxie the Taxi]

"Number Pleeeazzzz!"

http://youtu.be/k9e3dTOJi0o

[ThunderDan]

Hated dialing them (especially if you had a 9 in the number you had to dial) but loved the sound and the handsets were vastly superior to anything today.

I have an Official NFL Helmet phone downstairs, but its a fancy push button.

The rotary phone is why large metropolitan areas got 312 or low numbers for area codes so you wouldn't have to "dial" as long.

[packer4life]

Hey how bout we stick to football, as interesting as the rotary phone may be.

[denverYooper]

[hoosier]

About 1998 there was still a rotary dial phone backstage of a theater we were using for a community play. A girl of about 12 needed to use the phone and was directed to its whereabouts. I'll never forget the mystified, bewildered look on her face as she re-appeared--stymied by wheel holes where the buttons should have been. She had a kind of "You have got to be kidding me!" look on her face as we described how fingers go into the numbered holes and spin up to the stop before letting it go to spin back and then do the next number. Sounds weird if you have to explain it.

A girl needed to use the phone. What a wonderful irony: a story about youth and anachronism that is itself, now, completely anachronistic!

(Numerous classroom experiments confirm that kids born after 1990 or so have no conception of the history of telephone technology. They believe that cell phones have been around since the dawn of time.)

[Maxie the Taxi]

What's a "cell phone?"

[hoosier]

What's a "cell phone?"

[mraynrand]

What's a "cell phone?"

[SaladFinger]

Slamming a cell phone down after an aggravating call, just doesnt feel as good as slamming the old heavy black handset back down on the phone....

[denverYooper]

Slamming a cell phone down after an aggravating call, just doesnt feel as good as slamming the old heavy black handset back down on the phone....

And you can't really pull this off with a celly (scene at 1:40):

[swede]

Apparently Vikings fullback Jerome Felton will miss the rest of the preseason after having an appendectomy. Felton was a lead blocker for Adrian Peterson last year. NFL scouts are saying that Felton has no idea how to operate a rotary dial telephone.