Follies of the Madmen #493

Yak, yak, yak on the phone all day about makeup! Those gals!

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Can you see a modern kid trying to use that phone?

"I keep pushing those buttons but it won't make any calls!"

Posted by KDP on 11/18/20 at 02:51 PM

@KDP: Indeed. I saw a segment on “Ellen” wherein she challenged a teenaged girl to look up a business in a phone book and call the number on a rotary phone. She was unable to.

Posted by Judy on 11/18/20 at 03:16 PM

Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuirEweZvM
(The first few seconds are annoyingly shrill, but the children in the video itself are not.)

Posted by Richard Bos on 11/21/20 at 05:51 AM

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