Re: need to start a small alarm monitoring station

[ABLE1 <someone@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/5/2017 10:29 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 5:25:08 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 9/5/2017 11:07 AM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>> On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 8:20:00 PM UTC-4, RTS wrote:
>>>> I liked the phone system We had when I was in
>>>>           the Air Force,
>>>>
>>>> We had these long wire things with a plug on
>>>>           the end.
>>>>
>>>> When the light over the wire come on you pulled
>>>>           the wire out and plugged it into a jack which in turn went to a
>>>>           phone..
>>>>
>>>> When the light went out you unplugged the wire
>>>>           and put it back in its hole..
>>>>
>>>> Damn thing worked every time..
>>>>
>>>> No muss no fuss, no computer.....  ;-)
>>>>
>>>>         Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep, that was the government version of
>>>
>>> Two Dixicups and a string.
>>>
>>> That is ...... if anyone remembers what a Dixicup was.
>>>
>>> The word is not even in the spell correction library. (that's kinda sad/funny)
>>>
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> Actually, as I remember it was Dixie Cup not Dixicup.
>> But then my memory has been failing over the past 70 years or so.
>>
>> Thanks for the memory refresher!!
>>
>> Les
>
> You're probably right. I do remember the covers of the cups had pictures of (I think ) movie stars when you'd peel the film off the bottom of the cover. The pictures always had a blue tint to them.  I think the ice cream was always half chocolate and half vanilla, wasn't it? Came with a little wooden spoon in a wax paper wrapper.
>
> How about Mello-roll ice cream cones? Did you have them? I think that was a Good Humor thing.
>
> And remember the Good Humor guy in the white outfit and cap riding on the bicycle thing with the freezer box in front? I don't know it that was all over the country or in just certain places.
>
> Holy s__t, I think I'm devolving!
>

Funny, totally funny.  Hope your days get better......................