On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:07:21 +0100,it is alleged that Owain
spake thusly in uk.d-i-y:

Dave Liquorice wrote:
And cordless jobbies have poor sound quality compared to a wired. You
don't have to faff about with batteries/charger or have them go flat
in the middle of a call.

And proper phones have proper bells[1], not seagull larynxes[2].

Owain

[1] At least my Tele 8782 do.

Indeed, I have many 8746s, a few 8782s, and a metric carpload[3] of
706s, 746s, 721s, 741s and misc bits.

Compared to modern phones, _amazingly_ loud.

[2] Cue discussion on the vocal systems of birds.


[3] cue discussion of the differing amounts of carp in a metric and
imperial carpload, and how american carp is different than imperial
carp and it's all a government conspiracy to do us out of goldfish.

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