Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 19:48:45 -0400 From: Gord Deinstadt Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Tele-Trivia: Why Cotton Balls in Handsets?? Message-ID: Organization: GeoVision Corp., Ottawa, Ontario Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 328, Message 1 of 13 Lines: 18 mcmahan@netcom.com (Dave Mc Mahan) writes: > I have been asked why standard desk top telephones have a cotton ball > stuffed into the handset. Unscrewing the earpiece (not the microphone) > gives access to this little wonder. It's not that they put it there deliberately. It just kinda forms there. You know. Lint. Ear lint. :-) Gord Deinstadt gdeinstadt@geovision Gotta cut back on those Q-tips. [Moderator's Note: There's nothing like a good laugh to start off an issue of the Digest ... but later on in this issue a much more detailed explanation of coton balls and hadset types is presented. PAT]