Hello:Somebody

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Matt Dudek tweets that we got another one. Not sure who, maybe McGrone?

Mgodiscgolfer

July 30th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^

through all those lonely, lonley, lonley nights....ELO, Telephone. Telephone? That was a device that usually hung on your wall in the kitchen, or on a table in the den. Some days you would have to wait for it to ring when you were expecting a call. That, alot of times never came.

If you had to leave you could set a device that was called an answering machine and also if you wanted you could leave your house and call from a device we called a telephone booth. Like a see through out house with a thing we called a pay phone in it.

M-Dog

July 30th, 2017 at 1:30 PM ^

We didn't have no damn fancy answering machine thingy back in the day.  If you wanted to know who was calling, you had to pick up the phone.

I made this mistake during the '88 Michigan - Notre Dame football game.  The phone rang in the middle of the game with Michigan holding on to a tenuous lead.  I made the mistake of answering it.

The guy on the other end was an old co-worker friend who I had not talked to for a long time, so I could not just hurry him off the line.  The dude went on and on while I was trying to pay attention to the game with the sound off.  He would not shut up.

During this time, ND ran back a punt or KO, I forget which, and momentum swung their way.  We lost on a field goal at the end.  Had we beaten them, we would have likely wound up ranked #1 at the end of the season after beating USC in the Rose Bowl.

I blame myself to this day.  DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE DURING MICHIGAN GAMES!!

Priorities, man.