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2025-08-05

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Career criminal and gang member -- now suspected of k*lling a family of four after being released on bond for an attempted m*rder charge while he was in prison

Posted by Fred 2025-08-05 02:39|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [188 views ] Top

#1 The cord goes all the way to the kitchen.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-05 05:28|| 2025-08-05 05:28|| Front Page || Comments Top

#2 This is an attractive lady, but a horrible photo.

Posted by technochitlin 2025-08-05 07:24|| 2025-08-05 07:24|| Front Page || Comments Top

#3 Women Who Bathe.... sorta

Posted by Mercutio 2025-08-05 08:48|| 2025-08-05 08:48|| Front Page || Comments Top

#4 Ad for telephone safety?

Posted by Megabyses 2025-08-05 09:10|| 2025-08-05 09:10|| Front Page || Comments Top

#5 From an advert for stretchy telephone cords. Once upon a time, stretchy phone cords were the new New Thing.

(Yes, children, back before we invented electromagnetism, telephones were connected by wires)

Posted by SteveS 2025-08-05 09:25|| 2025-08-05 09:25|| Front Page || Comments Top

#6 Anyone remember the.... "party line." I suspect more than a few here.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-05 09:29|| 2025-08-05 09:29|| Front Page || Comments Top

#7 Beso, I remember Party Lines...and cranks.

Posted by alanc 2025-08-05 10:54|| 2025-08-05 10:54|| Front Page || Comments Top

#8 Let’s not forget doing a fake hang up and then listening in to your sibling’s private call.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-05 11:27|| 2025-08-05 11:27|| Front Page || Comments Top

#9 IDF bans Chinese vehicles from all bases over data leak fears
The IDF has barred all Chinese-made vehicles from entering its bases, citing concerns over data leaks from built-in cameras and sensors, requiring many military personnel and civilian employees to park outside the bases.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-05 11:33|| 2025-08-05 11:33|| Front Page || Comments Top

#10 I even remember the number, B. 1663-R

Posted by Mercutio 2025-08-05 12:04|| 2025-08-05 12:04|| Front Page || Comments Top

#11 We always had trouble with those phone cords getting so tangled up on themselves that they couldn't be stretched at all.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-05 12:09|| 2025-08-05 12:09|| Front Page || Comments Top

#12 Never had any trouble with Martha.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-05 12:09|| 2025-08-05 12:09|| Front Page || Comments Top

#13 Tip and ring

Maybe not enough voltage to kill, but it sure could sting.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-05 12:46|| 2025-08-05 12:46|| Front Page || Comments Top

#14 110v was required to make the bell in the phone ring. Low amperage, but it would give you a tickle.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-08-05 14:11|| 2025-08-05 14:11|| Front Page || Comments Top

#15 but it would give you a tickle

And at 30-cycles per second, it hurt. It was almost as bad as being shocked by house electrical wiring.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-08-05 17:12|| 2025-08-05 17:12|| Front Page || Comments Top

#16 Way back when, the power could go out in the area, but the phones would still work.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-05 18:57|| 2025-08-05 18:57|| Front Page || Comments Top

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