“When my grandparents did some housecleaning a few years ago, they offered me this instructional booklet. I estimate it to be from the 1940’s — it’s from an era when it was still proper to capitalize Telephone, much like the capitalization of Internet today.
“It has scribbles on some of the pages, probably from a relative of mine, maybe my mother when she was learning the etiquette of proper phone usage.”
- Scott Steffens, Contact Sheet
Glub glub mo blow! I’ll have to use that randomly in conversations from now on.
I like the illustration that shows where you should hold the receiver. By moving it about 2cm, you reduce its effectiveness by a factor of twenty.
Telephone Etiquette film with Don Ameche:
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