[net.misc] Phones in the head

lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (02/20/84)

The guy who would "know ahead of time when the phone was going to ring"
(so we're told) reminds me of a letter published in an issue
of Electronics Illustrated many years ago.

I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote the column -- he was
a really sarcastic fellow whose first name (I think) was "Tom".  (I think
the column was called "Uncle Tom" or some such.  Anybody remember?)
Anyway, somebody wrote in a letter that ran something like:

"Dear Uncle Tom,  

I have this unusual problem.  Sometimes I can hear telephone conversations
in my head.  I hear the dialing, ringing, the called party answering
the phone and everything!  What should I do?"

Uncle Tom's response was:

"Get an unlisted head."

--Lauren--

emjej@uokvax.UUCP (03/05/84)

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uokvax!emjej    Feb 29 11:55:00 1984

It was Uncle Tom's Corner, run by Tom Kneitel (who can be found these
days in *Popular Communications*). Great fun both were/are to read,
say I.

						James Jones