Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

First day as new hire kid, Central Office Equipment Installer: "Hey,
Newbie! Go down to the basement and bring us up another bucket of
Dial Tone. We're getting low."

Most guys figured out bucket of prop wash or x number of feet of flight line and even
tamperdots was bs. Sending someone out for the keys to the aircraft sucked them in quite
well.

Wes