Call Me Maybe
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05/19/25 07:10 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 53,730 Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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See if you can answer one of these telephone trivia questions.
-1. Today, nearly everyone answers the phone with "Hello?" But in the earliest days, what other word was used? -2. Who was the first President to have a phone on his desk? -3. Place the following in chronological order: princess phones, outdoor phone booths, area codes, touch-tone (push button) phones, hold buttons, picturephones (first public display), pay phones -4. What song titles that feature telephone numbers are associated with: -a.) Glenn Miller -b.) The Marvelettes -c.) Tommy Tutone? -5. Name the songs that feature these telephone lines: a.) "A telephone that rings, but who's to answer?" b.) "No phone, no pool, no pets..." c.) "When I call you up, your line's engaged..." -6. What's the punchline to the prank call to a housewife that starts with, "Is your refrigerator running?" -7. What fictional characters are associated with the following: a.) "One ringy dingy" b.) the shoe phone c.) "Phone home"? -8. What 1948 film starred James Stewart as a Chicago newspaper reporter who helps a scrubwoman prove her son's innocence in the death of a policeman? -9. In what 1960 film did Liz Taylor portray a call girl and win her first Oscar for her performance? -10. It's easy to remember the number for Dial-A-Prayer (787-3837) because the numbers correspond to the letters STPETER. What names correspond to the following numbers? -a.) Dial-a-Joke 262-4073 -b.) Dial-a-Hint 435-6473 -c.) Dial-a-Poem 873-5468 -d.) Dial-a-Painting 354-7326 -e.) Dial-a-Review 739-7333 -f.) Dial-a-Hussy 623-9378 -g.) Dial-a-Dictator 434-2646
The man who invented the Ferris wheel never met the man who invented the merry-go-round. They traveled in different circles.
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Re: Call Me Maybe
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#1346062
05/19/25 07:34 PM
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Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 16,617 Ohio
michele rose
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Graduate Boomer
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Ohio
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7. a.) Ernestine b.) Maxwell Smart c.) E.T. 
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Re: Call Me Maybe
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05/20/25 04:32 AM
05/20/25 04:32 AM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 35,640 United Kingdom
Mad
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Sonic Boomer
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6. Yes .. Well you better go catch it ??
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: Call Me Maybe
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#1346074
05/20/25 08:37 AM
05/20/25 08:37 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 22,985 Bucks, England
Urban Worrier
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True Blue Boomer
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1. "All our staff are currently busy with other customers. Your call is important to us, so please stay on the line and someone will be with you shortly" ??
Oh, sorry - that's more than one word
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Call Me Maybe
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05/20/25 01:46 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 7,129 Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
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5. I think I know two of them a These Foolish Things b King of the Road c ?? 😊
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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Re: Call Me Maybe
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#1346093
05/20/25 02:43 PM
05/20/25 02:43 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 53,730 Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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Bernie, try again.  flotsam and Marian - good teamwork!  curly, you've got the numbers right  ob, spot on! 
The man who invented the Ferris wheel never met the man who invented the merry-go-round. They traveled in different circles.
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Re: Call Me Maybe
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#1346094
05/20/25 04:15 PM
05/20/25 04:15 PM
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 49,477 Ottawa Ontario CANADA
curly
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Sonic Boomer
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4 a, PA 6-5000
Thanks Sue.
A man said "I just came back from a pleasure trip, I drove my mother in law to the airport"
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Re: Call Me Maybe
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05/21/25 02:37 AM
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 49,477 Ottawa Ontario CANADA
curly
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Sonic Boomer
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8. Northside 777
10 g, Idi Amin
A man said "I just came back from a pleasure trip, I drove my mother in law to the airport"
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