"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:29:47 -0500, Telamon wrote
(in message
):

Decades ago - when I first started playing with phones - I would not have
known what you're talking about.

Then one day I was working on the phone lines and had hold of the primary
two
[red/green] when the phone rang.

Actually, it was I who rang. I almost bit my tongue off.


Gray



I once knew a guy who claimed to have unscupulously downed the phone system
at the Univerisity of Illinois long ago.
Apparently 120VAC found it's way into the phone systems wiring.

He said every phone on campus rang momentarily, then all was silent.

Mike