in Biology we had to grow bacteria in these dish things... from samples of places around the school. we had to do like 5 or 6... anyways. my group took our samples from the flusher from the boys bathroom stall, the hand rail on the main stair case, the bottom of a shoe... and the office phone....
and seriously there was more bacteria cultures and far more varietys on the stupid phone.
makes sense though, people calling home sick... btu still. delish. 321
Ha Ha! Actually, mine is a union gig and it's a very decent living. Why else do you think I stay? Also, being "married" to Mr. Money Bags helps a lot.
I don't use those for a few years too, i have no clue about how it costs nowadays and actually i guess i will never know again because i have my old cell phone waiting for bad occasions!
I'm older than you are, so I don't know if you'll remember when there were letters (or exchanges) as part of a telephone # like CYpress 5-9014. That was like a million years ago - at least. Back then, there were telephone booths and all the public telephones actually worked....and they had little seats - and doors that closed for privacy. It was like a completely different lifetime ago!
Yes, yes, yes and yes. I have no idea what anyone's phone numbers are, including my own. Pay phones are seldom found. I once drove a woman around and around trying to find one. I picked her up on the side of the road (and her two very young children)--car broke down. I didn't want to trust her with my cell phone, etc. What a joke. We never found one. Yep, I'd never use them either. LOL @ MJ.
I wouldn't know how to handle it either. I guess it helps that mine is always in my purse and I could just tell a person I don't have one. Or offer them 50 cents to find a pay phone ;)
Michael, I never use a public pay phone without wiping the ear piece before using. AND the mouth piece doesn't come too close to my mouth. Pay phones are icky. And 50 cents a call here. Just so you know. - roc
Oh my Gosh, just the thought of using a payphone is gross. I am sure they are filthy.
I don't think I have seen any payphones anywhere around here. I have all my phone numbers on automatic dial at home and speed dial on my cell. I can so relate to what your saying. The thing about Michael Jackson made me crack up. lol x 100
Ha,ha,ha. I so relate. Except I have refused to get a cell phone. My computer crashed with all my phone numbers and addresses. :( Gee, I can't remember the last time I saw a pay phone. They are disappearing; endangered species. Technology has made us more dependant and less free. I often wonder "why do we have to be in contant touch with others?" Are we that lonely? I like not being available at someone else's whim. Yet I am on Youtube. Go figure.
AHAHHA.. Those things are filthy gross!! And sticky. I don't know Shari's number. hmmmmm You're totally correct. We don't remember that kinda stuff anymore. BTW, you're looking dapper as always.
Oh god. I'm a germaphobe, so just thinking about using a pay phone makes me want to bathe in hand sanitizer. If the receiver touched my face, I would lose the will to live. In fact, I don't think a call could be important enough...
Truly pay phones are the pits. I think I've used a pay phone maybe twice since 1991. I sold the first Radio Shack Mobil phone here in Florida back in 1985 or 1986. Back then the power supply was mounted in the trunk of your car and a handset was strung up to the dashboard. I remember selling one to a customer with a brand new Lincoln Town car and he installed it himself to save to installation fee. He drilled a hole right down into the gas tank trying mount it.
Michael, what should I comment on? Let's see. I got rid of my land line also and the only time I miss it is when I misplace the cell and can't call so I can hear it ring. But that's not what I want to say. What I want to say is how good this video is. Good subject, well said, well filmed. Excellent +
pay phones are serious. I am going to need you just to Skype, that has got to be cheaper too.
You are so right about not knowing anyone's phone number. In highschool I knew like every single friends phone number by heart, I cant imagine that now.
As I said, I have trouble remembering my own phone number and my work phone number, but I can still remember the 2 phone numbers from my childhood. As well as the lyrics to a bunch of KISS songs. This is not data that I need or want to know anymore. I wish my brain was more like a hard drive so that I could delete unnecessary information to make room for more pressing data.
totally hear u...totally! its craziness we actually knew peoples numbers and used those things :) still very sad i didnt actually get 2 meet u at 888...howz that even possible...? oh..wait...because there was like thousand people....:(
I know! How did I miss you? It could have been you and ME kissing for sxephil. I doubt, however, that it would have caused the same type of sensation. oh well...
hahahha....i think it would b epic :) next time then... :) oorrr..really..it could b u and sxephil kissing..that would def b a bigger sensation than anything else !!!!
oh dear, the pin numbers and passwords and user names-! You're right. And at work they make us routinely change all our passwords, which is just so much insult to injury. Back in the day you had your phone number and the combination to lock up your bike and that was it.
I keep my brain limber by not putting my family's cell phone numbers on speed dial. I even remember the number to my bank's automated EASI BANKER system.
Once in a while I forget stuff; but most of the time I remember my full name, which is 6 names long.
I wish I had my first cell phone. Non retractable antenna, little screen that just had the number on it and maybe some bars to tell signal, battery lasted a day... maybe, and weighed... yea...
it always cracks me up when I'm watching movies from the late 80's and early 90's and they pull out those mobile phones that are the size of lunch boxes... Even Jerry Seinfeld's cordless phone with the big antenna makes me giggle.
well I don't know.. I remember when there were phone booths and men would evidently go in there to urinate without being seen. The last time I used a pay phone the area around it smelled of pee too. I think maybe they pretend to be talking on the phone while they urinate.. Men can be nasty creatures
I remember back in the 90's in Europe we used calling cards instead of change. If you didn't have one, it was like today not having a cell. Funny how things change so fast...
there's a phone booth directly across the lane from my front door. The only time it's ever used is when there's domestic argument. Other than that it must be considered a good luck charm because everyone under 20 that walks by it has to punch it really hard. Sometimes the y kick it really hard for even gooder luck. :)
I worry about my increasing fear of germs- they say that all that anti bacterial junk that kills the 99% makes our immune system so weak that the 1% can kill us. Well, that's not exactly what they say, but the idea is similar.
My daughter works in the pharmaceutical field as a scientist & her husband is a physician. They have advised me on many health issues, and according to Mayo Clinic studies we, consumers, should not use the anti-bacterial soaps on a regular basis. There are good and bad bacteria and we need the good ones;)
Just thought you'd like to know, you can google it;)
Yeah, I'm blown away that you could even find a pay phone. I can't remember the last time I saw one. If I did though, I'll bet it would be gross! Ugh. I'm always cleaning my own phone - to use a pay phone I'd have had to go into the 7/11 and buy wipes or something. Ugh. Thank goodness for bluetooth devices = you don't have to put your face on the phone.... Okay, I've gotten paranoid in my old age.
haha, i remember my parents and all their friends having beepers, and i wanted one soo bad. i was a child, no one was going to call me. haha. but i still wanted it.
i also dont remember ever using a pay phone. all my friends pretty much lived on the same block and we had a house phone. i wouldn't want to use one though. it seems disgusting. lol
Those payphones had another archaic feature, the rotary dial. How dated (old) does that make you feel? I remember when touch-tone was a new novelty! I can't remember phone numbers anymore either, that's what the cell phone memory card is for.
Heaven Can Wait (1978) ohhhhhhhhhh shit yur dead your in heaven! oh hell i always knew there were hard wood floors in heaven.LOL i dont know anyones phone number either thats so funny I am thinking this is not a caffeene jag
the style of this video was inspired by the "Jazz Heaven" scene in Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories" (1980). If there IS an afterlife, I pick Jazz Heaven.
Oh the traumas you have to endure, Michael. After breaking my nose once, I was much more impressed with Michael Jackson's toughness. That hurt... a lot. Especially the stuff they stuff your nose with for when it swells. And MJ volunteered to have that done to him at least a dozen times. Crazy. They man has macho streak the world just doesn't fully appreciate.
Just wait- we haven't seen the last of MJ yet. In the future no one will have a nose. I mean, just look at all those pictures of aliens you see. No noses.
I can't remember the last time I used a pay phone. Personally, I think money is the grossest thing we touch on a daily basis. Maybe Howard Hughes wasn't so crazy after all.
r u gay?
hairjordan1 3 years ago
LOVE IT!! I feel the same way...N
matosn 3 years ago
this is really random but here goes...
in Biology we had to grow bacteria in these dish things... from samples of places around the school. we had to do like 5 or 6... anyways. my group took our samples from the flusher from the boys bathroom stall, the hand rail on the main stair case, the bottom of a shoe... and the office phone....
and seriously there was more bacteria cultures and far more varietys on the stupid phone.
makes sense though, people calling home sick... btu still. delish. 321
degavabu 3 years ago
Oh, and wanted to add, I like the burnt out image of these last two vids (this one and 5oldgays--which I have to watch today). Tres chic!
silverscreamgrl 3 years ago
You work at theater place u owen a Iphone??????? I thought Theate ticketers get paid min . wage?????????
JJYazzie73 3 years ago
Ha Ha! Actually, mine is a union gig and it's a very decent living. Why else do you think I stay? Also, being "married" to Mr. Money Bags helps a lot.
mickmusing 3 years ago
I don't use those for a few years too, i have no clue about how it costs nowadays and actually i guess i will never know again because i have my old cell phone waiting for bad occasions!
f3xpgm 3 years ago
your videos are always very clever - thanks for posting..
turtleblues66 3 years ago
that's sweet. you're welcome.
mickmusing 3 years ago
The lesson to learn is always get apple to give you a replacement phone when yours is being fixed.
Also never use anything that is given to to public by the state..
How we ever got out of the 90s i will never know..
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WordsAtWill 3 years ago
exactly about phone numbers. I have them all in my phone, I would be so lost.
479Lucy 3 years ago
I'm older than you are, so I don't know if you'll remember when there were letters (or exchanges) as part of a telephone # like CYpress 5-9014. That was like a million years ago - at least. Back then, there were telephone booths and all the public telephones actually worked....and they had little seats - and doors that closed for privacy. It was like a completely different lifetime ago!
New2UToob 3 years ago
remember this phone #? 499 (because) 6 (sign of the devil) 227 TV Show
kimcristo 3 years ago
Of course! I don't know Scott's phone number, but if I ever need to call for a car in Brooklyn I'm good to go.
mickmusing 3 years ago
Yes, yes, yes and yes. I have no idea what anyone's phone numbers are, including my own. Pay phones are seldom found. I once drove a woman around and around trying to find one. I picked her up on the side of the road (and her two very young children)--car broke down. I didn't want to trust her with my cell phone, etc. What a joke. We never found one. Yep, I'd never use them either. LOL @ MJ.
silverscreamgrl 3 years ago
It's an increasing dilemma: strangers asking if they can use your cell phone. I never quite know how to handle that situation.
mickmusing 3 years ago
I wouldn't know how to handle it either. I guess it helps that mine is always in my purse and I could just tell a person I don't have one. Or offer them 50 cents to find a pay phone ;)
silverscreamgrl 3 years ago
Didn't you pay the cell phone bill?
Goaltimer 3 years ago
Go Payphones!
Go Public Librarys!
Go Drinking Fountains!!!!
Well I think drinking fountains might be a little bit of crazy talk... who drinks out of drinking fountains anymore.... We have bottled water. ;)
MeanMissC 3 years ago
Michael, I never use a public pay phone without wiping the ear piece before using. AND the mouth piece doesn't come too close to my mouth. Pay phones are icky. And 50 cents a call here. Just so you know. - roc
popparoc46 3 years ago
Oh my Gosh, just the thought of using a payphone is gross. I am sure they are filthy.
I don't think I have seen any payphones anywhere around here. I have all my phone numbers on automatic dial at home and speed dial on my cell. I can so relate to what your saying. The thing about Michael Jackson made me crack up. lol x 100
justwant2bhappy 3 years ago
Ha,ha,ha. I so relate. Except I have refused to get a cell phone. My computer crashed with all my phone numbers and addresses. :( Gee, I can't remember the last time I saw a pay phone. They are disappearing; endangered species. Technology has made us more dependant and less free. I often wonder "why do we have to be in contant touch with others?" Are we that lonely? I like not being available at someone else's whim. Yet I am on Youtube. Go figure.
Flanole 3 years ago
AHAHHA.. Those things are filthy gross!! And sticky. I don't know Shari's number. hmmmmm You're totally correct. We don't remember that kinda stuff anymore. BTW, you're looking dapper as always.
ItalianStallionette 3 years ago
Oh god. I'm a germaphobe, so just thinking about using a pay phone makes me want to bathe in hand sanitizer. If the receiver touched my face, I would lose the will to live. In fact, I don't think a call could be important enough...
DJK83 3 years ago
Truly pay phones are the pits. I think I've used a pay phone maybe twice since 1991. I sold the first Radio Shack Mobil phone here in Florida back in 1985 or 1986. Back then the power supply was mounted in the trunk of your car and a handset was strung up to the dashboard. I remember selling one to a customer with a brand new Lincoln Town car and he installed it himself to save to installation fee. He drilled a hole right down into the gas tank trying mount it.
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holiday34691 3 years ago
Now that you've exposed the filth associated with pay phones, tell us your thoughts on public toilets.
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holiday34691 3 years ago
As young as I am.. I still have address book aka phone book.... B^)
JJYazzie73 3 years ago
I loved this. I hope you're feeling better
missdivinestalls 3 years ago
Michael, what should I comment on? Let's see. I got rid of my land line also and the only time I miss it is when I misplace the cell and can't call so I can hear it ring. But that's not what I want to say. What I want to say is how good this video is. Good subject, well said, well filmed. Excellent +
Perroquet51 3 years ago
Marc, you are a charmer.
mickmusing 3 years ago
i hate people that have iphones. they suck... only because i'm jealous of you !
skybee001 3 years ago
and I am jealous of that hat you wore last week. It was very Judy Garland "Get Happy".
mickmusing 3 years ago
I've never been able to make a call on a pay phone, ever, ........
earlessdude1388 3 years ago
pay phones are serious. I am going to need you just to Skype, that has got to be cheaper too.
You are so right about not knowing anyone's phone number. In highschool I knew like every single friends phone number by heart, I cant imagine that now.
seNCationDrop 3 years ago
As I said, I have trouble remembering my own phone number and my work phone number, but I can still remember the 2 phone numbers from my childhood. As well as the lyrics to a bunch of KISS songs. This is not data that I need or want to know anymore. I wish my brain was more like a hard drive so that I could delete unnecessary information to make room for more pressing data.
mickmusing 3 years ago
totally hear u...totally! its craziness we actually knew peoples numbers and used those things :) still very sad i didnt actually get 2 meet u at 888...howz that even possible...? oh..wait...because there was like thousand people....:(
filmester 3 years ago
I know! How did I miss you? It could have been you and ME kissing for sxephil. I doubt, however, that it would have caused the same type of sensation. oh well...
mickmusing 3 years ago
hahahha....i think it would b epic :) next time then... :) oorrr..really..it could b u and sxephil kissing..that would def b a bigger sensation than anything else !!!!
filmester 3 years ago
Remembering phone numbers has been replaced with remembering pin numbers and user names and passwords.
mshockey73 3 years ago
oh dear, the pin numbers and passwords and user names-! You're right. And at work they make us routinely change all our passwords, which is just so much insult to injury. Back in the day you had your phone number and the combination to lock up your bike and that was it.
mickmusing 3 years ago
I never use pay phone since during late 90s. Anyway, Michael your so hysterical, i enjoy watching video nonstop today.
aznguymetal 3 years ago
NON-STOP??? What a grueling task. Gold star for you... I live with a Final Fantasy ADDICT, by the way.
mickmusing 3 years ago
Pay phone... Do they still have those? I dont know anyones no. so funny~
DawndeeDALLAS 3 years ago
I keep my brain limber by not putting my family's cell phone numbers on speed dial. I even remember the number to my bank's automated EASI BANKER system.
Once in a while I forget stuff; but most of the time I remember my full name, which is 6 names long.
DebUSA 3 years ago
And yes, it is EASI BANKER.
DebUSA 3 years ago
You are like the Rain Man. Congratulations!
mickmusing 3 years ago
'Michael Jackson seems less freaky' L M A O!
I wish I had my first cell phone. Non retractable antenna, little screen that just had the number on it and maybe some bars to tell signal, battery lasted a day... maybe, and weighed... yea...
IAGuy06 3 years ago
it always cracks me up when I'm watching movies from the late 80's and early 90's and they pull out those mobile phones that are the size of lunch boxes... Even Jerry Seinfeld's cordless phone with the big antenna makes me giggle.
mickmusing 3 years ago
i would have taken the extra cash and gone in to the 711 and gotten me some purel. by far the funniest thing i have watched all day.
xALPx13 3 years ago
This can only mean that you've spent your day watching a double feature of Sophie's Choice and Schindler's List...!
mickmusing 3 years ago
Pay phones always smell of urine..
Dlorezzz 3 years ago
This comment, Dolores, nearly gave me a panic attack... How is that possible???
mickmusing 3 years ago
well I don't know.. I remember when there were phone booths and men would evidently go in there to urinate without being seen. The last time I used a pay phone the area around it smelled of pee too. I think maybe they pretend to be talking on the phone while they urinate.. Men can be nasty creatures
Dlorezzz 3 years ago
*disgusted look* ... i don't know, what the lesson is.
ju funny man. btw i get the whole dirty nasty public phone thing. i dont think i could ever use one.
polandcentral 3 years ago
the people I generally see on those pay phones have lots and lots of dirty facial hair. Poor things.
mickmusing 3 years ago
No Michael!! MJ is a freak! I doubt he ever used a pay phone!! LOL
LilCav68 3 years ago
some day I think/worry/fear that it's going to come out that he was right about everything. For now, I'll continue to Blame it on the Boogie.
mickmusing 3 years ago
I remember back in the 90's in Europe we used calling cards instead of change. If you didn't have one, it was like today not having a cell. Funny how things change so fast...
czechwindboy 3 years ago
I was in Paris a few times in the 90's and those calling cards scared me.
mickmusing 3 years ago
there's a phone booth directly across the lane from my front door. The only time it's ever used is when there's domestic argument. Other than that it must be considered a good luck charm because everyone under 20 that walks by it has to punch it really hard. Sometimes the y kick it really hard for even gooder luck. :)
LeSaMilano 3 years ago
I'm assuming that you've never had to use that pay phone, dear.
mickmusing 3 years ago
update: it appears I won't get my chance - someone has taken up residency! I walked past last night and heard snoring.
by the way I meant to tell you this was an excellent vlog dahling.
LeSaMilano 3 years ago
It's been years since I used a pay phone.
I don't even know where the nearest one is.
But, it's a good reason to have Purell with you at all times...
MGABBYB 3 years ago
wow, I totally agree with you on all of this. oy yoy
iamakinkychicken 3 years ago
hello adorable one.
mickmusing 3 years ago
You look like you are in heaven, at least what I think heaven will look like;)
I don't know any numbers, maybe one, my Nordstrom's credit card #, don't ask;-)
The Michael Jackson comment was a tad scary!
We worry more about germs as we get older AND WE SHOULD!!!!
Hugs,
Marylou
blueclouds4me 3 years ago
I worry about my increasing fear of germs- they say that all that anti bacterial junk that kills the 99% makes our immune system so weak that the 1% can kill us. Well, that's not exactly what they say, but the idea is similar.
mickmusing 3 years ago
My daughter works in the pharmaceutical field as a scientist & her husband is a physician. They have advised me on many health issues, and according to Mayo Clinic studies we, consumers, should not use the anti-bacterial soaps on a regular basis. There are good and bad bacteria and we need the good ones;)
Just thought you'd like to know, you can google it;)
Hugs,
Marylou
blueclouds4me 3 years ago
Yeah, I'm blown away that you could even find a pay phone. I can't remember the last time I saw one. If I did though, I'll bet it would be gross! Ugh. I'm always cleaning my own phone - to use a pay phone I'd have had to go into the 7/11 and buy wipes or something. Ugh. Thank goodness for bluetooth devices = you don't have to put your face on the phone.... Okay, I've gotten paranoid in my old age.
thizizliz 3 years ago
haha, i remember my parents and all their friends having beepers, and i wanted one soo bad. i was a child, no one was going to call me. haha. but i still wanted it.
i also dont remember ever using a pay phone. all my friends pretty much lived on the same block and we had a house phone. i wouldn't want to use one though. it seems disgusting. lol
williexwhip 3 years ago
when I was a kid our phones were made out of tin cans and a string.
mickmusing 3 years ago
Those payphones had another archaic feature, the rotary dial. How dated (old) does that make you feel? I remember when touch-tone was a new novelty! I can't remember phone numbers anymore either, that's what the cell phone memory card is for.
mrobertb 3 years ago
I miss the dial phones. It gave you a little extra time to consider whether or not you REALLY wanted to make that particular call.
mickmusing 3 years ago
Yes... they are quite nasty. The ones in Canada were quite nice tho... =)
nbwulf 3 years ago
Really?
binsk 3 years ago
The one in the Science Centre was quite fancy. As compared to the nasty boxes in LA.
nbwulf 3 years ago
I agree. When I had to track down my 236 dollars for a 49 dollar transaction, I use the pay phones (for free in fact)... ahhhh
LilCav68 3 years ago
I heard that those Canadian pay phones say "eh" when you deposit your money.
mickmusing 3 years ago
i had to watch this in 3 parts i am frying chicken bailey is asleep carry a little bottle of that de germ gel gell as andy hardy says ye gods
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
did you really reference Andy Hardy? I wept a little because I knew who you were talking about.
mickmusing 3 years ago
hell yeah he was cute as hell.
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
cell phones have caused major fights with me and past* boyfriends no one needs to know where i am 24/7 its made life shitty and neurotic
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
hunny bunny this lighting is to die for.
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
Your description of pay phones would be mine too. funny how things change! Im gonna make an effort to memorize my home phone and my wife's cell lol
Tobie2 3 years ago
I, too, have decided to make a concerted effort to start memorizing key phone numbers. Or maybe write them in my underwear with indelible ink.
mickmusing 3 years ago
Heaven Can Wait (1978) ohhhhhhhhhh shit yur dead your in heaven! oh hell i always knew there were hard wood floors in heaven.LOL i dont know anyones phone number either thats so funny I am thinking this is not a caffeene jag
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
the style of this video was inspired by the "Jazz Heaven" scene in Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories" (1980). If there IS an afterlife, I pick Jazz Heaven.
mickmusing 3 years ago
Oh the traumas you have to endure, Michael. After breaking my nose once, I was much more impressed with Michael Jackson's toughness. That hurt... a lot. Especially the stuff they stuff your nose with for when it swells. And MJ volunteered to have that done to him at least a dozen times. Crazy. They man has macho streak the world just doesn't fully appreciate.
dafttool 3 years ago
oops...THAT man has...
dafttool 3 years ago
Just wait- we haven't seen the last of MJ yet. In the future no one will have a nose. I mean, just look at all those pictures of aliens you see. No noses.
mickmusing 3 years ago
They taking them out all around here!:)
proofisinthepudding 3 years ago
I can't remember the last time I used a pay phone. Personally, I think money is the grossest thing we touch on a daily basis. Maybe Howard Hughes wasn't so crazy after all.
timido66 3 years ago
Pay Phones are Quite cool.
I still use them when my phone is at home. Oddly they are clean here in Hawaii.
n8tn808 3 years ago