You can also make a person jump two feet, by handing it to them, and say crank it. At least the ones from the Army field phones were just right that you cannot hold it easy to crank, without wrapping your hands around the terminals.I've heard that you can use a phone generator to make worms come up out of the ground.
What's the back story on Willie Mays?Great for setting off blasting caps! Willie Mays would advise against it, I'm sure. Party pooper.
This one rang my bell on small town telephones in the 1950s. The town was small, but everything in that area of the state was small. I lived at the county seat. Pop was the Administrator of the local hospital, such as it was. By being a "wheel" in town, he had a private line. We didn't have to answer individual rings. If the phone rang, it was for us.RWoerz, Bought back memories of the party line seeing that picture. Learning the different rings for the different people on the circuit. Having to ring the operator for anything not local. Wasn't that many years ago either.