Just found an artifact from an ancient civilization

[Dominus]

How do I get in touch with archeologists?

 

[purina]

411

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Calling it civilization is pretty generous though....

 

[jjonn3]

How do I get in touch with archeologists?

Maybe ask the operator for directory assistance?

 

[rareboy]

I'll bet it wasn't working though.

 

[josephus]

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But this picture is so artfully framed.

 

[Kahaih]

I'll bet it wasn't working though.

Looks like pieces of the receiver are missing . . . and have been for some time.

 

[Alistair]

Did you check to see if there was a dime in the return?

 

[Kahaih]

But this picture is so artfully framed.

With two freshly painted red posts, and a wilted mall as the background.

 

[josephus]

Triangles everywhere.

The magnificent cloud formation between two green trees. The cracked triangular pavement beneath. The triangle formed with the defunct telephone and the red bollards.

 

[pigface]

That's quite a modern one. I recall the entirely enclosed ones, with glass paneling and a door.

 

[Araucaria]

That's quite a modern one. I recall the entirely enclosed ones, with glass paneling and a door.

My understanding from the earliest days of my childhood was that the phone booth was enclosed to provide complete privacy to the person in there talking. When the open style pay phones came out, I experienced that as the violation of a basic cardinal rule. Of course now people converse loudly in public places on their cell phones, not seeming to care that they're airing their personal and family's dirty laundry for the world to hear.

 

[jjonn3]

That's quite a modern one. I recall the entirely enclosed ones, with glass paneling and a door.

Like the one Maxwell Smart used...

 

[Vannie]

Try calling Adam Levine.

 

[gsdx]

Like the one Maxwell Smart used...

Or the one that gets you into the Ministry of Magic in London. (I wonder if yours is where Rowling got the idea?)

 

[Latimer]

Excavating the Future: David Macauley’s ‘Motel of the Mysteries’

In 1979 , David Macaulay used his talent for black and white pen and ink drawings to create, Motel of the Mysteries. Set hundreds of years after a cataclysm which wiped out all life in North America it describes the discovery of a temple of the ‘ancient world’, actually the motel of the title.

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You all need to get a copy of David Macauley's
Motel of the Mysteries.

 

[PrinceCory]

My understanding from the earliest days of my childhood was that the phone booth was enclosed to provide complete privacy to the person in there talking. When the open style pay phones came out, I experienced that as the violation of a basic cardinal rule. Of course now people converse loudly in public places on their cell phones, not seeming to care that they're airing their personal and family's dirty laundry for the world to hear.

Very good point!

 

[me203]

My understanding from the earliest days of my childhood was that the phone booth was enclosed to provide complete privacy to the person in there talking.

And I thought enclosed phone booths were for the convenience of Superman...

 

[me203]

Of course now people converse loudly in public places on their cell phones, not seeming to care that they're airing their personal and family's dirty laundry for the world to hear.

Of course, phone privacy isn't what it was, regardless of how publicly the phone is used... There are too many ways for some third party to collect data about one...

Not that normal people care about privacy now. As this illustrates: