Thread: Land Rovers only

I remember when five cents bought enough hot chips to satisfy me, so I must be really old.

Originally Posted by scarry

The big green one(phone) was more fun when it came out,shoving some paper up the coin return shoot on the way to school,then pulling it out on the way home.

All fun and games......

We called them the jolly green giants...

I got angry one night with a jolly green giant when it kept dropping out on me while talking to my beautiful new fiance a 1000km away

I delivered it a seriously hard front snap kick and it burped and spewed all of its coins onto the floor.

This was at RAAF base Forest Hill where all the apprentices and trainees were and rang the mummies and daddies every night , so it was very full.

I picked up all the coins and took them down to one of the clubs.

In the army we had a pay phone in the accommodation block, but being a technical unit someone had climbed in the ceiling and hooked another hand set into the phone line, so we never paid for calls.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

In the army we had a pay phone in the accommodation block, but being a technical unit someone had climbed in the ceiling and hooked another hand set into the phone line, so we never paid for calls.

Buttinski . (still got one somewhere in the shed)

Lineman's handset - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineman%27s_handset

It is also called a test set, butt set, or buttinski.

I had to look that one up.

I wonder if linesman used Land-rovers much in the good old days as the telephone line mostly followed the road or rail, so they pro'ly only needed them in country areas, after rain to churn through the mud?

That went well ??

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