Just for fun and chuckles

[ceagle]

I was watching YouTube tonight and running across a couple songs (Western Union by Elvis and Too Much Monkey Business, also by Elvis though Chuck Berry kicked out a great original)....

How many people ever sent/received an actual telegram? :D

One time I sent one, back in the 1980s, as a birthday or mother's day surprise.. and they did love it!... I will say I got quite a surprise at the cost.. hehheh! (about $20 for just a few words)... freaky huh? Especially when compared to texting and i.m.ing these days...

AND... anybody out there remember when, if you lost a coin in a pay phone, the company would MAIL you a replacement coin? :D *chuckles n waggles* ..That one actually happened to me quite a few times!

Comments

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

I never did send a telegram. STOP. Nor did I ever receive one. STOP. Always seemed kind of expensive and sort of an odd way to communicate. STOP.

Hmm, I don't remember the phone company mailing back lost dimes either :D

[jfd62780.livejournal.com]

ROFL, Ohm-nee-pee-tent! Potent with an Ohm-Knee in front of it! Cle. Ver. XD

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

There's one sketch where she's talking to some poor fellow (I think it's Bob Newhart) on a payphone who's lost his "Die-em" and there's a fantastic conversation about mailing it back. I'll have to look for it ;) This is all I could find in the meantime.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

She's mighty stern in this episodeyodee!

Laugh In was a hoot!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

hehheh! You don't remember the mailing thing, ah? *pip* I had forgotten all about it, and what reminded me and prompted this entry was reading the lyrics to Too Much Monkey Business on YouTube, ...a line where the singer declares the line was disconnected and the operator promises to mail it to him... and then I remember those little envelopes in which they really used to send them! :D ... I probably have one or more somewhere in a box....

[genecatlow.livejournal.com]

I never sent one, but we used to get them from the Army when my dad was in the service. ^_^

[phoenix-audubon.livejournal.com]

No telegrams here, but I did get coins mailed to me as a refund once. Not from a pay phone, but a water vending machine.