Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: yazz@prodnet.la.locus.com (Bob Yazz) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: And You Thought COCOTs Were a Problem Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 02:42:32 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 174, Message 5 of 9 sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes: > From L.M. BOYD's column, February 28 (sort of a strange facts column): > "History records that some of the world's first telephone booths > were mistaken for elevators. Others for restrooms." > [Moderator's Note: They are still used as public bathrooms here in > Chicago :) PAT] If I might joke about junkies for a moment, I'll point out that they're still used by some as elevators too. Bob Yazz -- yazz@lccsd.sd.locus.com [Moderator's Note: And, as New York Telephone indignantly pointed out a couple years ago, they are *NOT* to be used as Confessionals. This was right after the scandalous 'True Confessions' 900 line first started operating, and the proprietor of same ran an advertisement of a man kneeling in a phone booth, hands folded, looking up at the phone in a meditative state. Anyway, would *you* want to kneel in front of a filthy toilet? :) PAT]