Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for October 15, 2012
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Transcript:
Poncho: Stop firing at me, you crazy mouse! I'm calling in the humans! Poncho: Huh? It's not working! Hello? Hello? Poncho: That never worked in movies either, back when this type of phone still existed.
In the early days of the telephone the Hook Switch would light a lamp on the operator’s console when the receiver was lifted. The lamp (light) indicated that the that line was in use. Clicking the hook switch would cause the lamp to flash.
So long ago that would have worked (if no one cut the phone line).