Comments on: Phone Fracas http://sorabji.com/1/2009/06/phone-fracas.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:08 -0500 hourly 1 By: Jon-Michael http://sorabji.com/1/2009/06/phone-fracas.html/comment-page-1#comment-110 Jon-Michael Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:08 +0000 http://sorabji.com/1/?p=103#comment-110 I had the same experience at my parents house not to long ago. I was leaving the house and the phone rang, but as you described in a manner not normal to our landline. I ran back and picked up the phone and heard a dial tone like you mentioned and then started hearing people answering other phones as if they were getting a call from me or someone else and I was listening in to their response. Some people would say hello a few times reiterating it with more urgency...other times it was as if a conversation was going on but I couldn't ever make out the dialouge, and other times it was the please hang up and dial your operator message. It was probably the most interesting sound I have ever heard, I study sound design at college and honestly had a hard time hanging up, I tried to record some of it with my phone even but it didn't turn out. Just thought I'd share the experience with you because it truly was very odd and interesting. Cheers, Jon-Michael Mooney I had the same experience at my parents house not to long ago. I was leaving the house and the phone rang, but as you described in a manner not normal to our landline. I ran back and picked up the phone and heard a dial tone like you mentioned and then started hearing people answering other phones as if they were getting a call from me or someone else and I was listening in to their response. Some people would say hello a few times reiterating it with more urgency…other times it was as if a conversation was going on but I couldn’t ever make out the dialouge, and other times it was the please hang up and dial your operator message. It was probably the most interesting sound I have ever heard, I study sound design at college and honestly had a hard time hanging up, I tried to record some of it with my phone even but it didn’t turn out.

Just thought I’d share the experience with you because it truly was very odd and interesting.

Cheers,
Jon-Michael Mooney

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