Comments on: What The Operators Overheard in 1907 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/06/30/archives/post-perspective/operators-heard-1907.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=operators-heard-1907 Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Ima Ryma http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/06/30/archives/post-perspective/operators-heard-1907.html/comment-page-1#comment-281199 Ima Ryma Sun, 01 Jul 2012 08:26:18 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=63034#comment-281199 Lily Tomlin as Ernestine
Became the T.V. funny face
Of one who to most was unseen,
A voice from some telephone place.
And she who operated calls
From every and anyone,
Most surely knew the secret alls -
The details on what each had done.
With just one ringy dingy, she’d
Unleash her powered ears upon
The unsuspecting – yes indeed!
Nothing once said was ever gone.

The human Ernestine retired.
Computer Ernestine got hired.

]]> By: Mary A. Berger http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/06/30/archives/post-perspective/operators-heard-1907.html/comment-page-1#comment-280788 Mary A. Berger Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:20:41 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=63034#comment-280788 Jeff, this article on old-time telephone girls was awesome! Who’d a thunk they had their hands (or ears) so full. Such a contrast to today, when the details of a person’s life are so openly distributed by cell phone. Thanks for the interesting article.

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