Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 21, 2021

The nerve.

He has to touch the screen and touch it again.

He should email that and cc: someone in.

That’s their way of putting you at the back of the line.

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" Word Slang " has been around forever ;-)

Similar to “roll down your [car] window”

Is that how it’s done? WOW, you learn something new every day ! !

I still have my old rotary phone. Can’t dial out because it’s not compatible with my VOIP service. But it’s the only phone available with a ringer loud enough to hear inside, or outside, the house.

Ignored your call eh? I’ll bets it a cat plugger on the other end.

Doesn’t everyone still say that?

Not limited to Pluggers as they are universal terms associated with a phone. Just like kleenex is to facial tissues; P,B,& J applies to any type of peanut butter and flavor of jelly or preserves.

There aren’t really any good substitutes. “Punch” or “swipe” just don’t have the right ambiance. Another problem is digital clocks. How do you teach a child that “a quarter to three” and “two forty-five” are the same?

The cell phone is a weapon invading human brains with unwanted annoyance.

So what’s the new acceptable terminology? Keypad and enter.. swipe right, left?

Brookins! =waves= Hey Brookins, how’s retirement treating you?

lol yeah, I didn’t even think twice about mama’s line there!

“Dialing” and “hanging up” are still common usage for phone-related operations. You can still “dial” a phone number but you wouldn’t “dial” a security code into a keypad.

I also gently snap my carriage whip and shout ‘get up’ to get my car to go faster.

Poke the number.

New technology certainly is useful and many of the common terms do carry over but yep, it would be nice to get the same effect of slamming a receiver down on a spam caller. And none of that change a dropped call after being on hold for a long time. But it sure would make people feel better.

On the other hand if the service gets really bad there’s often a consumer protection complaint site for your state’s Attorney General’s Office.

There’s a certain computer/printer manufacturer whose equipment is good but whose apps and firmware are so horrible that they turn their products into items far more fit for use as range targets and piñatas that several of my friends have complained about for over a year. Lawsuits should be pending soon because of their terrible customer service.

my next cell phone is gonna have a dial on it.

Telephones have come a long way since A.G. Bell spoke those famous words “Watson, come here, I want you” on March 10, 1876. When the rotary dial was introduced in 1919, it was groundbreaking technology eliminating the need for operators to personally handle every call with the words “Number please”. Fast forward to 1963, when Ma Bell introduced touch time ‘dialing’ that made it even easier to “Reach out and touch someone”. But now the terms rotary dialing and touch tone have been relegated to the boneyard of obsolete technology along with their linguistic counterparts. I often wonder if Steve Jobs had even the slightest idea of the magnitude of change to civilization his I-phone would trigger. Could he have imagined a large percentage of the human population being fixated on their phones 24/7? If so, would he have scrapped the idea????

Let’s see … I had a rotary model when I lived in “D” for most of the `80’s … brought it back to Long Island with me, as I owned it … never hooked it up … wound up giving it to my mum’s adopted family, as they needed a landline, and I had no use for a phone at the time. That was back in `87-`88 …

The technology will have evolved when we’re able to slam down the phone on an annoying caller.

I retired my rotary when downstairs dropped their house phone. That was the only way I could call my doctor and actually get to them. Now I have a phone with buttons. Back in the old days you could call the doctor and Miss McComsey answered in less than a minute. Aren’t improvements great?

Why aren’t you hanging up the phone? When I finish I call I put the handset back on the phone on the wall – that is hanging is up. This applies whether it is corded or not corded handset.

And that idea that children do not know what a phone on the wall is – all of our niblings knew what a phone was, even a toy phone. My niece and nephew could dial my mother’s rotary phones very well. Husband’s older niece when she came to our house and saw a toy telephone we had – knew immediately that it was phone and how to dial it (rotary).

True story: my sweetheart worked at the local school system. A child came into the main office and needed to call home. He was mystified because the school still had a rotary phone. This happened about 18 years ago and the child was a 3rd grader.