my mother in law is in her 70's and a few years ago she was going through her notebook/address book updating some phone contacts that she had lost when her laptop crashed. Mr Veg started looking through it and was dying laughing because she had phone numbers that had exchange letters in them from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, still in her address book 50 years later. He's like, "Um I think you can cross that one out, Mom"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:14 (ten years ago) link
then she started asking him to read out the phone numbers to her and he kept going, "KLONDIKE...457...."
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
The switchover was pretty much done by 1968, but there was probably a lot of public inertia in acceptance. I remember seeing local television ads that used the LL-NNNNN format as late as 1973 or so.
As always, the Internet provides: The Telephone EXchange Name Project (apparently I grew up in the "HYatt" exchange!)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
to the gay list also add Lee Garner Jnr.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:24 (ten years ago) link
ah how could i skip over him
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
Probably too minor a character, but the MC of Don's birthday bash from last season.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
apropos of nothing, if a tmbg biopic ever comes out, vincent kartheiser should play linnell and rich sommer should play flansy.
― dunham checks in (get bent), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
ted is a bit of a dork really isn't he? clothes, haircut, general goofiness.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
is this a complete list of the gay characters so far?
dunno if Megan's swinger boss and wife count here
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Pete has never really earned any advancement, he's just been given it quid pro quo
Pete has made serious personal sacrifices to win accounts
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
salvatorejoan's blonde friend who was in love with herbelle jolie guykurt of kurt & smittydavid mamet's daughtermanolobob benson
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
+ son of tobacco exec who propositioned sal and was a monster all around
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
I think I'm conflating him with the belle Jolie guy
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
So, Bob Benson - Cuban refugee?
― Jaq, Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:59 (ten years ago) link
^^^ had that thought
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
Totally a Latino trying to pass (see also Pete's shitty comment about Manolo not being good enough to care for his mother unless he was Spanish).
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
so the West Virginia thing is a red-herring?
― ryan, Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Manolo also name of Nixon's devoted Cuban majordomo.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh shit good call.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Brand New made a post about the new logo, and half the comments were from people crying SPOILER!!! JEEZUS!!!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
spoiler queens are the fucking worst
― dunham checks in (get bent), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
14 episodes for season 7 supposedly.
― piscesx, Friday, 21 June 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
Spoiler!
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 21 June 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
also don jumps off the building in ep 5
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 June 2013 06:16 (ten years ago) link
the remaining episodes are flashback clip shows as he falls and remembers all the crazy adventures they had
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 21 June 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
John Popper contributes special final season lyrics to "A Beautiful Mine."
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Friday, 21 June 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/cb60ea6cbfe65ec980490c282ebedd06.jpg
Captured this add from the new New Yorker issue.
- Two Don's- Police- Don is holding someone's hand (Megan?)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 21 June 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
lollll
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 21 June 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
ONE WAY!
STOP!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 21 June 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell ref???
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Friday, 21 June 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
in the season finale [SPOILERS] Don murders Joni Mitchell
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 June 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
and puts up a parking lot.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 21 June 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
don draper = DD. first D = Duritz. second D = Didit. that's "Duritz Didit." the counting crows killed joni mitchell. weiner's done it again!
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 21 June 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
isn't this just the poster from March again?
― piscesx, Friday, 21 June 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
y
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 June 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Ah, didn't know that
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 21 June 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
still no idea who that's meant to be in the glasses behind him. if anyone.
― piscesx, Friday, 21 June 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
clark kent
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Cutler, no?
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
no window leaps due
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/22/mad-men-ending-window-jump_n_3483412.html
― piscesx, Saturday, 22 June 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
Weiner previously said he knows the ending of "Mad Men." "I do know how the whole show ends," he told Jeff Garlin for "Jeff Garlin in Conversation With ..." "It came to me in the middle of last season. I always felt like it would be the experience of human life. And human life has a destination."
Great, more afterlife bullshit? Don meets God and God is Ronald McDonald?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 22 June 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
You can't avoid the noid forever
― polyphonic, Saturday, 22 June 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
Don climbing out of his deathbed to pitch the Noid to Dominoes would be an amazing ending
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 22 June 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
human life's destination = death, not nec. afterlife
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Saturday, 22 June 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
lmao at the noid yall
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Saturday, 22 June 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
God is Dog and it's name is Spuds MacKenzie
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 June 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
Don has to die at the end, right? Continuity of work in New York is not an option (because it's not an ending) and Hawaii would be a cop out.
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Sunday, 23 June 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
He could have a new baby or something.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 23 June 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Don will die in episode 9, final arc on the show will be Peggy starting to have visions of him.
― the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Sunday, 23 June 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
dick whitman becomes a separate physical entity and kills don
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 23 June 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
chauncey the dog comes back to do a spuds mckenzie commercial
― dunham checks in (get bent), Sunday, 23 June 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link