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Telephone Quotations from Tele-phone.co.uk!
"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."
"A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone."
"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call."
"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again."
"A teenager is always too tired to hold a dishcloth, but never too tired to hold a phone."
"One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."
Tele-phone.co.uk Quick Trivia Files!
"Telephone is derived from two Greek words, tele + phone, meaning far off voice or sound (Tele, far off + phone, voice or sound)".
"The first telephone exchange opened on January 28, 1878, in New Haven, Connecticut" - from The History of the Telephone by Herbert N. Casson.
"The first mobile car phones were located in the car's trunk, taking up nearly half of the space!"
"The number of years it took in the United States for the car to achieve a 25% market share was 44 years and for the phone it was 35 years - for the Internet it was only 7 years!" - from a Merrill Lynch report.
"When Bell's patent was sixteen months old, there were 778 telephones in use" - from The History of the Telephone by Herbert N. Casson".
"The use of telephone answering machines became popular in 1974".
"Sometimes, early telephone operators would get to know their customers so well, the customers would ask for a reminder call when it was time to remove a cake from the oven, leave the phone off the hook near their sleeping child when they left the house, hoping the operator would hear any cries of distress, request a wake up call before taking a long nap".
"Being rude to a telephone operator in Prussia was once a crime. In 1908, a respected citizen was reprimanded by the government after becoming exasperated with an operator and saying 'My dear girl!'"
"When Alexander Graham Bell died on August 4, 1922, millions of phones went dead. In Bell's honor, all phones served by the Bell System in the USA and Canada went silent for one minute".
"In the Catholic church, St. Gabriel, an archangel, is the patron saint of telecommunications".
"One of the first telephone answering machines was developed in Switzerland during the 1950's. It took three days to install".
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