Please educate me...
Well..... I assume your reference to 'party line' was about the old style telephone systems, circa 1964 [a very good year], where multiple families were all on a single line. You could pick up the phone [with a dial!] in your house, slyly listen in [for as long as it took to be caught] to the private conversation the other 'party line' members were having - and also have to wait till they got done yakking to make yer own 'private' call. Some folks had what was called 'private lines' that did not have this 'feature' but that was in the city [we lived in the country]. A bit of an aside ~ there were a couple of nosey folk known to listen in on our party line, and a friend and I 'set them up' with some fictional gossip about a goodie-goodie neighbor the next time we knew we were being eavesdropped on [and you could always tell, the sound of the line changed when more than one person was on] The 'fiction' that we 'wrote' soon spread thru-out the land, and we chuckled.......hey, haven't I told that story before?
and been accused of being very David-Collins-like??? [Kinda reminds me of a 60's version of the Doonesbury strip last week-end ---- Hot Spot----? -- did ya see that?]
so that's what I think ya meant by party line ~ unless you mean what the Eagles referred to in Life in The Fast Lane?
[slap][bad Ringo, bad Ringo]
