OT: Best ISP for DSL?

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Sounds like Lily Tomlin - Laugh In?

Lilly Tomlin as "Ernestine" - "One ringie dingie... Two ringie dingies... Oh, a gracious Good Evening..." I think that whole routine was in her stand-up act and predates 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh In' by a few years, but that's where it got it's widest exposure - it was begging to be done with proper costuming and sets.

And Lilly was a 3-time SNL Guest Host and they would have had to riff off it - her body of work is a sketch material bonanza.

To people who have actually worked in the telephone biz it's even funnier, because you realize just how dead-on accurate it is. Some employees actually develop that "You can't fire me, you can't even get me in trouble, so I can be as rude as I want" attitude.

And the proper quote is "We don't care - We're the Phone Company, we don't have to."

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At that time, what was a customer to do, go to a competitor? I seem to remember Lily using that kind of line too.:)

Yeah I was thinking Laugh In too, you're probably right. Predates SNL in any case though.

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Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

Back in the early '70s Ma Bell used the slogan "We may be the only 'phone company in town but we try not to act like it."

At the same time, I had to deal with the Conroe Telephone Company [a VERY Independent outfit] who lived by the motto "We're the only 'phone company in town and YOU'D BEST REMEMBER THAT!". (They put businesses and residences on

The Minneapolis City Council has just approved city-wide Wi-Fi wireless 1 meg/sec for $20/month for anyone who wants to subscribe. $30/month for bidnesses. Rates can't rise for 10 years.

City of Anaheim, California and many others here have been doing the same. Cerritos, Milpitas etc etc

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