SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 17 hours agoIs it true that in "ye olden times" you could sit at a dingy bar and ask the bartender for a phone and they'd give you a rotary phone on a long as cord so you could make a call while slinging drinks?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up147arrow-down1message-squareIs it true that in "ye olden times" you could sit at a dingy bar and ask the bartender for a phone and they'd give you a rotary phone on a long as cord so you could make a call while slinging drinks?SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
I’ve seen that in several 70s and 80s movies and I don’t buy it’s real. Wouldn’t the bar just have a payphone?
minus-squareTheWolfOfSouthEnd [none/use any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·12 hours agoThe joke is that if your wife phoned the pub or bar, they would give varying answers depending on how much you paid.
minus-squareFeinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 hours agoThere were songs written in the 1970s about this very scenario Tell ol’ I ain’t here, he better get on home
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The joke is that if your wife phoned the pub or bar, they would give varying answers depending on how much you paid.
There were songs written in the 1970s about this very scenario
Tell ol’ I ain’t here, he better get on home
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