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[Wilson Gray]

Answer your telephone! It's ringing off the hook!

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 6:42 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> I miss the days when we could yell to a neighbor, "Hang up yer 'phone, it's
> off the hook!", although we can still say "The s.o.b. hung up on me!",
> anachronymically speaking.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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