"Robert Carnegie" wrote in message
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west.ender writes

"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 at 19:02:51, west.ender
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"JAF" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 13:00:16 +0100, Tony Walton

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Choose from their bliddy menu at random.

If you want to sepak to a human, don't make any selections.

Hmmm. Normally that's my tactic too; but I phoned my phone company
recently,
and I was told by The Voice that I would be disconnected if I didn't
make
a
selection!


What happens, I wonder, if you still have an old-fashioned phone that
doesn't have a tone system?

I've often wondered that meself. Where can I get one? I'd love an old
ringing phone with a dially dial, in that old fashioned green colour.

Car boot sale. eBay UK. Specialist retailer. There used to be a
little place in Glasgow, but you paid through the nose; still, you
hope they were fixed.

There was a shop called, I think, 'The Telephone Box' in Howard Street (down
the side of Central station). I bought a green Viscount push button phone
off him, it was quite expensive and never worked properly (and had an 886
xxxx (Renfrew) phone number typed onto the white card under the handset. I
had to regularly thump it on the floor during conversations because the
sound always faded after a few minutes. The guy who owned the shop had
ginger hair and was a bit of a rip-off merchant.