[Milsurplus] [armyradios] OT. Telephone Repair

[Hue Miller]

Not that this isn't funny, but it seems to be a variation of a well known 
story.
If you worked in the telephone industry, you learned that this story has 
been around
since about 1935.
-Hue

From: J. Forster
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:51 PM
To: armyradios at yahoogroups.com ; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net ; 
arc5 at mailman.qthy.net
Cc: Vintage-Mi9litary-RADAR at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [armyradios] OT. Telephone Repair




Lawrence , Kansas, December 12, 2008

A Kansas farm wife called the local phone company to report her telephone
failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few occasions,
when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.

The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this
psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his
test set, and dialed the subscriber's house.

The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog moaned and the
telephone began to ring.

Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:

1 . The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire with a steel
chain and collar.

2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.

3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was
called.

4.. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.

5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to 
ring.

Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning.

>From a friend. Sorry, it was just too funny not to pass on.

-John

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