By calling (617) 253-6237, you can talk anonymously to wandering eggheads on the MIT campus, thanks to the Agoraphone ( http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/AgoraPhone/top.html), a communication sculpture planted by one of the paths at the school.

:m: Peace.

Strange

I'd rather talk to Click and Clack the Tappet brothers.

brilliant

You don't need an entire structure dedicated to it...here in T.O., all you have to do is copy the number of a public phone, and call it at any time. Just depends on whether someone will pick up or not. :)

-Blue% :m:

Just depends on whether someone will pick up or not.

Over here they would think that someone's trying to play a 'prank' on them,...:p


Greetz fukushi

Originally posted by Fukushi
Over here they would think that someone's trying to play a 'prank' on them,...:p Well, what else would kids use it for? :D :D

-Blue% :m:

In the states, we know a way to trick the payphone into keep ringing :D until someone picks it up.

Awesome! You must teach me this, or is it a secret reserved only for the States? It will greatly improve my "activities", besides pressing Redial every 10 seconds. :D

:confused: :m: "wandering eggheads" ???:D

in socal most payphones have incoming calls disabled

Okay , since many of them eggheads will be the future stewards of our nuclear stockpile, me, Captain Ginyu, will dial the agoraphone and will plant evil thoughts in their brain....:cool:

When we went on a class trip to Quebec City we stayed in a fairly nice hotel, in fact you could even call the other rooms! We got a call from someone...I don't remember who it was...but one of my friend's picked up and answered "Stan's Pool Service." Twas pretty funny. At the time.

We spent one evening calling the operator...we kept calling the same person, actually (small town, you see). We got so bored that we just copied whatever she said, and she finally stopped talking and asked us if "that was the best that we could do." Then we hung up. Then the phone itself rang. Then we ran away, screaming and remarking upon how "creepy" it was.

Ahhh....memories.

I actually couldnt tell you how to do it. I believe it is:

1. Dial 811-XXXX (where xxxx is the payphone's own last 4 digits),
2. Hit the hang up thingie 3 times in succession, the third time setting the phone back on the set.

That's how i think it goes, but again i'm not sure, i've only been with friends when they did it. But i think that's how ya do it..

Edit: I wonder if that MIT number is considered long distance from PA?

Thanks NenarT! I promise to put it to good use...http://216.40.249.192/mysmilies/contrib/ed/laugh.gif
When we went on a class trip to Quebec City we stayed in a fairly nice hotel, in fact you could even call the other rooms! We got a call from someone...I don't remember who it was...but one of my friend's picked up and answered "Stan's Pool Service." Twas pretty funny. At the time. *lol* We did that all the time during class trips. Since the girls were on another floor from the boys, we kept prank calling each other. We stopped eventually though, because we accidentally called one of the teacher's rooms. The next day was...not so funny.

My friend and I found an abandoned phone number in a public phone booth once. It was pretty hilarious: we called it, and when a female answered, we shouted, "A DINGO ATE YOUR BABY!!!" in an Australian accent, and hung up really quickly. hehehe :D Now, whenever we see couples with strollers, we talk about recent baby abductions in Australia by villainous dingoes. http://216.40.249.192/mysmilies/otn/laughing/astrosmiley.gif

Yeah, eventually the teacher caught on and yelled at us. In fact, that teacher yelled at me quite a few times, back in the day. I did a really crappy science project, apparently god~awful enough to require a fierce screaming fest. Then, lets see, we used to crack up one of our friends in her class all the time, and he had a really loud laugh, so in every other class he would get screamed at, in fact one time she even took the poor bastard out into the hallway and reduced him to tears.

I didn't like that teacher much. One time I brought in a Ouija board and she screamed "get that thing out of here!" Damn. That was scarier than talking to the spirits themselves.

Crack that whip...

i love E.B. White. he's one of the finest.

Very creative.