Do you still have a *GASP* corded phone in your house?

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Shockwave

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Rotory dial. Yes, the big round wheel with numebrs on the case and finger holes to spin it. Nice dull green.
 

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Lifer
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All three of the phones in the house here are corded. I had a cordless phone that a friend gave me (he had about 7 others, and this one was somehow incompatible), but it died.
 

Freejack2

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We have a corded phone but it's kind of pointless as we have vonage so if the cable modem loses power then we're only using cell phones anyhow.
 

SWScorch

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May 13, 2001
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yes, and we still have pulse dialing. And until two months ago none of us had a cell phone. I still dont use mine.
 

iamme

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i scraped my cordless phone for a corded one. sounds so much better and louder.

maybe it's all the wireless equipment in the house, but the cordless phone sounded like crap.
 

damiano

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Originally posted by: werk
Nope, and it was a PITA during the blackout. I need to get one to add to our little disaster kit.

yeah during the NYC blackout our cells did not work and our stupid cordless phone ran out of battery so we couldnt call since then i always have a corded phone at home
 

Martin

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Yes, have one in the kitchen. Have a cordless one elsewhere.

If you want to hear something bad, we have a ROTARY PULSE telephone in my school's common room.
 

Linflas

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We have 2. When we were without power for 3 days after Isabel we were sure glad we still had them.
 

Anubis

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yes on our fax, one in the basement and 1 in my parents room. here at college all the phones are corded,we CANT use wireless ones in our rooms they dont work