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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    Yep!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited October 2025
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    Time was TI4-1212 (i.e., 844-1212) in and around B-more.
    Weather was WE6-1212 (936-1212).
    In fact dialing 844 followed by any four digits got one the time; similarly with 936 and any four digits for the weather.
    It gets better...
    on a rotary dial phone :# -- dialing (and I do mean dialing!) 844 and briskly tapping one of the two 'hangup buttons' on the handset cradle would (usually) get one the time; 936 likewise for the weather. The four taps would (usually) generate four clicks, which was functionally equivalent to dialing 1 1 1 1. B)

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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,465
    edited October 2025
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    Back when, in the ~50's to early 80's maybe, the time in Omaha was given at (402) 844-8111.
    You can still get the current time and temp. at (402) 342-TIME (8463). With a short ad.

    EDIT: No Affil.
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  • Viking64
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    I can remember one time in 1973 that it was 2:43 PM.
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  • CGTIII
    CGTIII Posts: 1,276
    edited October 2025
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    audioluvr wrote: »
    Polkitup2 wrote: »
    I could dial a number and get the time and temperature.

    In our home town it was the bank number. Their marquee always showed the time and temp.

    Unfortunately, in my small town the bank temp sensor was on a brick in the sun on the roof. :/
    Temps in LA (Lower Alabama) were bad enough without making it look worse!
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 3,137
    edited October 2025
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    treitz3 wrote: »
    "At the tone, the time will be..."

    Tom

    Thanks for the opportunity:
    It's Howdy Doody Time
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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • mhardy6647
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    I can remember one time in 1973 that it was 2:43 PM.

    Dude. Not to brag, but -- I was there!
    B)
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  • michaeljhsda2
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    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Polkitup2 wrote: »
    I could dial a number and get the time and temperature.

    In our home town it was the bank number. Their marquee always showed the time and temp.

    Still works today…San Antonio

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    Calling for the time and temp in St. Louis was FA1-2522. I just called the number and it is no longer in service. I think it was 1st National Bank of St. Louis who sponsored it at that time...
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  • mhardy6647
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    ^^^ at least the item above isn't under you're doing it wrong. :#
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  • Willow
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ^^^ at least the item above isn't under you're doing it wrong. :#

    Not yet....
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  • agingboomer
    agingboomer Posts: 676
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    . . . you decided to take the road less traveled by, and now you don't know where you are.
    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • Viking64
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  • mhardy6647
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    One day last week, the bumblebees were going crazy collecting, or at least looking for, pollen. They seemed to know that the killing frost was hours away. :|
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  • machone
    machone Posts: 1,588
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    Frost?
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  • mhardy6647
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    it's a thing up here near the 45th parallel...
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    If you hit yourself in the face playing with one of these ...

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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • treitz3
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    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 12,025
    edited November 2025
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    This paddle-baller was great!

    House of Wax. B)

    https://youtu.be/F4k8aJVNTrs
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    You know you are getting old when you sorta look like one of these two old guys;

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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • Willow
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    I'm not there yet
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  • audioluvr
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    Who's the homeless guy on the left? Did Morgan pick him up at some old folks home? :D
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    You know you are getting really old if you saw the original show:

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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • mhardy6647
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    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    You know you are getting really old if you saw the original show:

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    Heck, I was watchin' him when he was still a Lieutenant.
    B)
    :#
    :blush:
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  • Viking64
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    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    You know you are getting really old if you saw the original show:

    I posted that image 8 years ago during a slew of sexual misconduct allegations when the whole #MeToo movement went full swing. :p This was my caption:

    In a statement released today, The Grandfather Clock from "Captain Kangaroo" alleges that Mister Green Jeans fondled the hands on his face at least twice a year from 1963 to 1969. In a related story, Mr. Moose and Mr. Bunny Rabbit allege that they were both fisted by Dancing Bear. And several witnesses have come forward claiming that they saw Captain Kangaroo himself thumb a copy of the children's book "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel".

    And this:

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  • xschop
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    ...When your bowel incontinence causes you to give more than two ****.
    Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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  • Gardenstater
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    You don't know the difference between Dynamat and Armacell 🤣🤣
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  • xschop
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    That new product everyone raves about, Dynacell.
    Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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  • DeRod
    DeRod Posts: 249
    edited November 2025
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    When you get cranky about misspelling. Probably has a lot to do with Captain Kangaroo having taught you spelling and all 😂
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