A city wide blackout at 28 Dec 2003 15:03:17 -0800 did not prevent jim rozen
from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the
following:
In article , Larry Jaques says...

Man, did _that_ date this post's origin. Phone cords haven't
been black since rotary dials, nigh onta 4 decades ago.

Ha ha. The *real* dating is, most folks don't *have*
phone cords any more.

Cartoon: man standing looking "lost". Caption "I wish someone would invent
a phone with a cord on it so that you could find it!"

Mine are brown fabric. See phone on wall:

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pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."