[SixClub] Kansas Phone Repair

[Pete]

>            PHONE REPAIR
> 
> 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 improve the circuit ground, thus causing the phone to ring.
> 
> Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pi**ing and moaning.

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