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[Richard O'Neill]

  Does anyone remember the telephone repairman's ring down whistle?

Old Phone Joke:


    An elderly lady phoned her telephone company

An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her 
telephone failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few 
occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the 
phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to 
see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady.

He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed 
the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring right away, but then the 
dog moaned loudly and the telephone began to ring.

Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:

1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire via a steel 
chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the phone 
number was called.
4. After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning and then 
urinate on himself and the ground.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to 
ring.

Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning.


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