V2: a pictorial ode to obsolescence

When I was a kid, in our town we didn't have telphones, we yelled.  We were known as the town without a voice.  But look at us now, we have tin cans and sting!

"we have tin cans and sting!"  -- So your town was full of WASPs?  

(Get it?!  You made a "typo" and I pretended it Wasn't a typo and then I played on a double meaning for "wasps" -- you know, like wasps, the insects vs. WASPs the acronym for "White AngloSaxon Protestants?"  Man, that was so funny!  Especially when I explained it. )

Reminds me of an Emo Philips line:  "I was at a Walmart the other day --- which I think is where everyone ends up, eventually ...... if they die without Christ...."

Modern communication technology will help us to reduce travel time 

Wonderful!  It says the Bell Telephone Company will give you Free Key Town Maps, too!  So your salespeople - sorry, "salesmen" - can keep in touch with smaller towns when they're in bigger towns.  I guess the maps show them where towns are.  It all sounds too good to be true!

motherinlaw...

Do you want to know how "perfection" looks?

let me show you:

I can't make fun of Atari -- when my son was 12, he loved Atari more than life itself!

True. Atari cannot be mocked. They brought us the wonderful "Streets of Rage + Golden Axe".

So they had Atari in Scotland, too -- presumably in the '80's.... interesting! () ... does that mean they also had D & D?

My stepson used to get extremely upset when I beat him up at "Streets of Rage". (Was only aged around 6 at the time). 

Unsure what D & D is. Dungeons and Dragons ?

Yes.  I'm guessing that most guys of a certain age who are on this site were Really into D & D at one point.... :-)

Yeah and secretly some probably still are! :))

I played this -- even though it would hurt your fingernail!

I'm pleased to say I never played this:

I grew up on a farm so mounting donkeys were called Friday Nights lol, just kidding, it was Saturdays!

Sorry.  Didn't mean to make fun of farm life.  I'm sure you and your boyhood friends developed into quite intelligent and sophisticated young men, probably exceptionally healthy and strong from all that donkey mounting.  

Anybody thinks that Bell could have sold too many phones with that marketing campaign? 

"Let me explain something.  We don't care.   We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."  -- "Ernestine" (Lily Tomlin,  "Laugh-In")