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Article #1385Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
From: Bill Lambert
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:31
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:31
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=> In article <SPIKE.93Jan7165709@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com => (Joe Ilacqua) writes: => Speaking of the phone company ... anyone know where I can get a tape => of the comedian (her name escapes me right now) that did the phone => company skits... => => ... "we don't care. We don't have to, we're the phone company!" => => ... "are you calling from the number from which I'm speaking?" => and so on... That was Lily Tomlin, who originated that character on the weekly comedy show "Laugh In" in the early 70's. Either "Best of" tapes from that program or vintage Lily concert tapes will surely include her characterization of "Ernestine" the Ma Bell operator. It was pretty funny at the time, and probably still holds up well. - Bill Lambert
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!blamb From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) Newsgroups: ne.general Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill Message-ID: <7593@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> Date: 8 Jan 93 15:31:30 GMT References: <BOAZ.93Jan6203838@concerto.lcs.mit.edu> <AEM.93Jan7064951@tomokato.analog.com> <SPIKE.93Jan7165709@world.std.com> <106444@bu.edu> Sender: news@hri.com.hri.com Distribution: ne Organization: Horizon Research, Inc. Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: rodan.hri.com