Re: Jokes, Funny lines, pre 1950s

L Covey wrote:
> Unfortunately, there will come a time, if not already beginning, when 
> younger viewers won't understand some of the jokes in the episodes. 
> Specifically, I refer to jokes that refer to people, or happenings, etc.

> that occurred before the 1950s.
> 
> Maybe, it would be fun to make a list of these on this thread.

Remember the episode...(I can't think of which one right now)...where 
Lucy needs to use the phone and we find out that she has a "party line"? 
The other party is using the phone, so Lucy tells Ethel about a trick 
that's worked before; she picks up the phone and imitates the way the 
two women speak, and says someone's at the door.  They both hang up to 
answer the door.

In this day of multiple phone lines per household, and cell phones 
everywhere, would ANYONE younger than, what?, 50?, have any clue what a 
PARTY LINE is?!

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