On Friday 14 January 2005 10:24, frank theriault wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:56:25 -0500, Luigi de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > I think the name of the dog was Nipper or something like that, and they
> > were still using the dogs in TV ads even into the late '90s.
> >
> > So no, you're not that old...yet.
> >
> > I was telling a little kid about phonebooths, and this kid hadn't ever
> > seen a real phonebooth--you know, the ones with doors and such. THAT
> > made me feel old, and I'm certainly not OLD.
>
> Nipper!! That's it!
>
> I couldn't remember last night, and neither could my housemate (who
> thinks she's a know-it-all WRT trivia). I kept thinking it was
> Topper, or something like that, but couldn't come up with Nipper. I
> could have Googled it, I guess, but that would have been cheating, no?
> Oh well, I was close...
>
I should have also mentioned that our British readers would know *immediately*
what we were talking about, since RCA owns (owned?) a large chain of record
shops in Britain called HMV ("His Master's Voice") and still feature nipper
peering into the gramophone on their advertising.
> Hmmm... Phonebooths. I don't know that I've any photos of those. I
> have a few payphone shots, but none of booths, with the doors and all.
> Now, ~that~ would be interesting. Most of them seem quite derelict
> these days; I mean, with cells, who the hell uses payphones these
> days? I'll have to keep an eye for booths. Especially the real old
> wooden ones, such as one would find inside of older buildings. I know
> there are a very few of them downtown; I just have to rack my brains
> to figure out where.
Phonebooths--without phones--would be great: then I could, when I got a call
on the mobile, walk into a phone booth and talk without having to annoy the
rest of humanity by shouting. It would make hearing the person on the other
side of the line easier, too.
The Washington Metro has pay phones on the platforms, since most mobile phones
don't work in their tunnels. (only Verizon's do, since Verizon has repeaters
built into the tunnels). I've had to use these from time to time, and even
if I'm carrying a mobile on me, I still carry change to use the payphone,
just in case.
-Luigi
