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All alone by the telephone.....a song so old I can find no site giving lyrics.
The flame war plus Wordappaloosa have left bled the board dry. Not a
single new post this morning. If there are any lurkers, now is a good
time for them to take courage and post something. Anything at all.
YARTS if you can manage nothing better.
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Hi, Bill!
I'm just posting here to let you know you're not totally alone. If the nasty posts resume, I'll go back to merely lurking again.
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All alone by the telephone.....a song so old I can find no site giving lyrics -wwh, wwh, by chance was it either of these songs to which you refer? Here by the phone I wait for your call
'cause you're the one I love most of all.
I WAIT FOR YOUR CALL - Tommy Charles 1958 1/2.
Alone by the phone I can tell
You don't remember when I rang your bell.
RINGING BELLE'S BELL - Milo and the Mindbenders 1959 
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Dear Milum I'm so glad to have some company, I can''t remember
what I was fussing about. Remember the old days when so many
gossips used to listen in on party lines to other people's calls?
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Got'cha covered, Dr. Bill!  Gossips? Party lines? Somebody call me?
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Remember the old days when so many
gossips used to listen in on party lines to other people's calls?
There's a Langston Hughes poem that touches on this subject. Harlem? Same in Blues? Can't remember. You guys know it?
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Yeah, Guys, you gotta admit that listening in on a party line was a temptation greater than a juicy red apple for the female back then, but even today I've yet to see a red-blooded american male take the tiniest bite of the devil 's apple of eavesdrop and gossip, except maybe Whitman O'neill on one of his lessor days. But better, I can remember hearing telephone stories back then about my grandmother Grider. The Griders were the only ones in the neighborhood who had a telephone. Grandmother had granddaddy build a little shelf on the house outside their bedroom window. The telephone was kept there in case the neighbors wanted to use the phone. Where guys, do you keep your phone?
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Well, akshually�, milum, the last time I remember having a party line was when I was about 8 years old. And I'd pick up the phone to make a call and wonder where all these voices were coming from...then when I caught on, I'll admit there was a time or two I'd pick up the phone just to see if any folks were talkin' and listen-in for a littlewhile...just a child's curiosity [ahem]. 'Course, oncet I turned 9 I gave it up, 'cause I was a 'big boy now.' (and then we moved, and never had party-line again...too bad, too...would've been good for hearin' what the high school girls were sayin' about ya! [sigh]) 
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Speaking of gossip, remember when the gossips started using cordless phones over twenty years ago?
A lot of radio amateurs got plenty laughs hearing some of them discussing their sex life on the phone.
Funnier even than the email about "cum being yum".
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Dr. Bill wrote: The flame war plus Wordappaloosa have left bled the board dryWord Appaloosa? Is that where they horse around with words?
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