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Originally Posted by Dave Moll
On receiving a call (with ringing on ones appropriate ringer), I seem to recall that one simply had to lift the handset to be connected to the caller.
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Aye, and if the other party just happened to lift their handset to make a call, they would trip the ring and answer the incoming call to their neighbour - oops!
The psychic dog is no doubt an early urban myth, but..
When investigating ringing problems, many a subscriber, on being advised to pour water on the earth spike, thought the engineer was having a laugh and trying to wind them up.