SADF GIPPO TICKY PHONE

Geez.. That phrase brought back memories.. I can remember the long lines at
the "phone room" at 5 SAI where ALL the phones were permanently gippoed at
one stage.. Then when the MP's started getting into the act, there was that
gippo of using a piece of cardboard under the phone rest and banging out the
number ... LOT easier to whip out a piece of cardboard then to try to
explain the piece of cotton attached to a 5 cent piece stuck in the phone
... :-)

John Dovey - 9^th May 2000

Things obviously have got easier with card phones. You needed 2 cards.
First insert the card with cash on it, remove it quickly and then quickly
insert the empty card. You could phone for hours and the card never got
empty...

ERICH KRHNERT - 9^th May 2000

Funny you mention call boxes. I was suprised in SA
last year the public phones at the side of the road
had "munt" in big letters at the top.

And I thought apartheid was over?

Simon Lewis - 9^th May 2000

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