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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I've just realised a detail "prediction" in that; Ting ting ting".
It seems, thankfully, to have become less fashionable, but for quite a while it was apparently trendy to give your up-to-the-minute, 21C, portable radio-telephone a very old-fashioned, metallic bell sound. Specifically, that single-burst, horribly jangly, 1940s American bell that Hollywood made familiar even to non-Americans!
It seems, thankfully, to have become less fashionable, but for quite a while it was apparently trendy to give your up-to-the-minute, 21C, portable radio-telephone a very old-fashioned, metallic bell sound. Specifically, that single-burst, horribly jangly, 1940s American bell that Hollywood made familiar even to non-Americans!
