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Lamp Phone Atrocities!

Started by Greg G., May 06, 2009, 12:43:09 AM

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19and41

#750
I put it that way because they think they are creating art.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

Partyline4

I think it looks pretty good, actually....I've read how others feel about telephone lamps, and I am usually in agreement with not destroying candlesticks. These 500 sets, as many as there are - let a few go as a lamp, fine by me.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/163274980560

andre_janew

Why is it that you never see a 500 set with a dial blank made into a lamp?

HarrySmith

#753
How about a subset lamp?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/232922548106
Harry Smith
ATCA 4434
TCI

"There is no try,
there is only
do or do not"

HarrySmith

#754
Harry Smith
ATCA 4434
TCI

"There is no try,
there is only
do or do not"

Key2871

People will stop at nothing to make a buck, amazing, just Amazing.
KEN

andre_janew

I'm amazed that there is even a market for this stuff!

Key2871

Exactly, who wants a handset lamp... Desperado, someone has been out mending feces for so long, there loosing touch with reality.
KEN

Jim Stettler

Quote from: Key2871 on September 25, 2018, 07:38:39 PM
Exactly, who wants a handset lamp... Desperado, someone has been out mending feces for so long, there loosing touch with reality.
Looks like a Junior Achievement project to me. The kids made them and sold them as a business project. They had a sponsor that helped create the project and got them the parts.
I think the Telephone Pioneers sponsored this project.
Just my guess,
Jim S.
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

HarrySmith

Quote from: Key2871 on September 25, 2018, 07:38:39 PM
Exactly, who wants a handset lamp... Desperado, someone has been out mending feces for so long, there loosing touch with reality.

Mending feces? Sounds like a smelly job!
Harry Smith
ATCA 4434
TCI

"There is no try,
there is only
do or do not"

RotarDad

That reference to the Eagles song Desperado was highjacked by the auto fill- I dislike that "feature" of modern tech.  Hurts more often than it helps imho.....
Paul

Key2871

The eagles, like old phones are classic. Anything done to take away from either is all done in bad taste.
KEN

Jim Stettler

GPO phone lamp

Might as well ruin the dial because no one knows how to use them.
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

FABphones

Yuk. That one looks like it is blowing bubbles. And then the blue cord.
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Key2871

And I thought the handset lamp was stupid and ugly.
I stand corrected...
KEN