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Frank: Did you fix this phone? No LBC

To: midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Frank: Did you fix this phone? No LBC
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:10:58 EDT
An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her
> > telephone failed to ring when her friends called -- and that on
> > the few occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned
> > right before the phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded
> > to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly
> > lady.
> >
> > He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and
> > dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring right away,
> > but then the dog moaned loudly and the telephone began to ring.
> >
> > Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
> >
> > 1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire via a
> > steel chain and collar.
> > 2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
> > 3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the
> > phone number was called.
> > 4. After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning and
> > then urinate on himself and the ground.
> > 5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the
> > phone to ring.
> >
> > Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and
> > moaning.






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