A Direct Message by Paul Taylor on May 6, 2013 at 12:00 am Story: Wapsi-ArchiveCharacters: TsillahLocation: The Library Related Comics ¬ Why Are You Looking Make You Feel Grouchy Pants Fallout For Petesake
In panel one, she set things up so she looked like a certain recurring character on “Laugh In”😏
Who was a stereotypical character of a specific time period telephone operator.
The term is ‘switchboard operator’ from when you had to manually plug the incoming line to the correct outgoing line.
The character spoke with a nasally voice:
“ONE ringy dingy,
Two ringy dingies,
Three ringy dinghies, ‘how may I connect you?’
@ Greywolf
Back then we had only ONE telephone company. (It was often an element of those skits😏)
It wasn’t until the late 1970s or early `80s that we had the ”break-up“ of Ma Bell!
“Hello? Is this the party to whom I am speaking?”