Someone in the office just posted this to me - I thought it
sufficiently on-topic to be amusing here. Apologies if it's last
week's chip paper.

This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, Ontrario about a
repair call he handled while living in England.

It's common practice in England to ring a telephone by signaling extra
voltage across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in
England). When the subscriber answers the phone, it switches to the
two wire circuit for the conversation. This method allows two parties
on the same line to be signalled without disturbing each other.

Anyway, an elderly lady with several pets called to say that her
telephone failed to ring when her friends called; and that on the few
occasions when it did ring her dog always barked first. Pat proceeded
to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog.

He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed
the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The
dog barked loudly, followed by a ringing telephone.

Climbing down from the pole, Pat found:

a. A dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar.

b. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signalling current.

c. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and urinating
on the ground.

d. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would ring.


Which shows that you that some problems can be fixed by just ****ing
on them.

On 9 Oct, 14:07, wrote:
Someone in the office just posted this to me - I thought it
sufficiently on-topic to be amusing here. Apologies if it's last
week's chip paper.

This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, Ontrario about a
repair call he handled while living in England.

It's common practice in England to ring a telephone by signaling extra
voltage across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in
England). When the subscriber answers the phone, it switches to the
two wire circuit for the conversation. This method allows two parties
on the same line to be signalled without disturbing each other.

Anyway, an elderly lady with several pets called to say that her
telephone failed to ring when her friends called; and that on the few
occasions when it did ring her dog always barked first. Pat proceeded
to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog.

He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed
the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The
dog barked loudly, followed by a ringing telephone.

Climbing down from the pole, Pat found:

a. A dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar.

b. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signalling current.

c. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and urinating
on the ground.

d. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would ring.

Which shows that you that some problems can be fixed by just ****ing
on them.

Have we got an echo in here ?
That was just posted in another thread.
Simon.

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:10:43 UTC, sm_jamieson
wrote:

Which shows that you that some problems can be fixed by just ****ing
on them.

Have we got an echo in here ?
That was just posted in another thread.

And it's a very old story.

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In article , Bob Eager
scribeth thus
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:10:43 UTC, sm_jamieson
wrote:

Which shows that you that some problems can be fixed by just ****ing
on them.

Have we got an echo in here ?
That was just posted in another thread.

And it's a very old story.


A real shaggy dog tail....
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Tony Sayer

In article m,
wrote:
It's common practice in England to ring a telephone by signaling extra
voltage across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in
England).

No it's not - and hasn't been for many many years. Such devices were known
as party lines.

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*Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In message m,
writes
Someone in the office just posted this to me - I thought it
sufficiently on-topic to be amusing here. Apologies if it's last
week's chip paper.

This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, Ontrario about a
repair call he handled while living in England.

It's common practice in England to ring a telephone by signaling extra
voltage across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in
England). When the subscriber answers the phone, it switches to the
two wire circuit for the conversation. This method allows two parties
on the same line to be signalled without disturbing each other.

Anyway, an elderly lady with several pets called to say that her
telephone failed to ring when her friends called; and that on the few
occasions when it did ring her dog always barked first. Pat proceeded
to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog.

He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed
the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The
dog barked loudly, followed by a ringing telephone.

Climbing down from the pole, Pat found:

a. A dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar.

b. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signalling current.

c. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and urinating
on the ground.

d. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would ring.


Which shows that you that some problems can be fixed by just ****ing
on them.

.... and you tell kids today, and they WON'T believe you

--
geoff

On 2007-10-09 14:07:50 +0100, said:

Someone in the office just posted this to me - I thought it
sufficiently on-topic to be amusing here. Apologies if it's last
week's chip paper.

This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, Ontrario about a
repair call he handled while living in England.

It's common practice in England to ring a telephone by signaling extra
voltage across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in
England). When the subscriber answers the phone, it switches to the
two wire circuit for the conversation. This method allows two parties
on the same line to be signalled without disturbing each other.

Anyway, an elderly lady with several pets called to say that her
telephone failed to ring when her friends called; and that on the few
occasions when it did ring her dog always barked first. Pat proceeded
to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog.

He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed
the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The
dog barked loudly, followed by a ringing telephone.

Climbing down from the pole, Pat found:

a. A dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar.

b. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signalling current.

c. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and urinating
on the ground.

d. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would ring.


Which shows that you that some problems can be fixed by just ****ing
on them.

Yawn....

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article m,
wrote:
It's common practice in England to ring a telephone by signaling extra
voltage across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in
England).

No it's not - and hasn't been for many many years. Such devices were known
as party lines.

A friend of mine on the Wirral had one of these years ago, he wired an
extension to his line into his workshop. Not realising how it worked he
just earthed one side of the pair to initiate a call, unfortunately it
was the side that set the other parties meter running, he had a visit
from the GPO to explain the facts of life and signalling to him.


--
Bill