Ten Unique Telephone Booths

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:59:13 +0000

It’s hard to believe but in days gone by telephone booths were a device that everyone wanted to use and at one time were the only way to make a telephone call outside of the home. In fact, such was its appeal that before the advent of the mobile phone, people would literally queue outside payphone boxes just to call someone ‘privately’, or at least without the rest of the family in earshot. These days of course, calls are predominantly made using the mobile phone – a gadget most of us already take for granted – and future generations will only see phone booths in museums or books.

To celebrate its lifespan, here are ten unique examples of the phone booth.

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Upon viewing the photo above for the first time, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was fake and that no payphone on earth would be situated in the middle of a body of water. But it’s real. Found on Lake Victoria in Uganda, this very unusual payphone is a in fact a solar-powered, GSM phone – and therefore wireless – used by locals just as any other payphone would be.

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Above: an incredibly extravagant payphone situated in the body of a decorative leopard. This booth can be found in Brazil, a country where payphones are known as ‘orelh

10 Telephone Pranks That Make You Squirm

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:28:26 +0000

The following 10 prank phone calls all induce laughter but the last few will leave you in a dumbfounded state of shock.

1. Upside Down Pizza Man

More than 200,000 people have listened to a recording of a Welsh man complaining to a supermarket call centre worker that he has been left without dinner because he has been sold a pizza base without a topping.

Minutes into the call, his complaints turn to severe embarrassment as he realises that the pizza is upside down. After admitting, “I look like a fool”, he complains that the packaging should have been marked with instructions on how it should be opened.

Click to listen to the call

2. Liver On My Pizza

With over 1.6 Million views this is one of the most popular telephone pizza pranks on youtube.

This is a prank calls from the U.K. Radio Presenter

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