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Is 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? (hexbear.net)
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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?

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[–] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The joke is that if your wife phoned the pub or bar, they would give varying answers depending on how much you paid.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There were songs written in the 1970s about this very scenario

Tell ol' I ain't here, he better get on home

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

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