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195. Ernestine the telephone operator.

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #156)

Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:15 AM

Feb 2016

"One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingys, --SNORT-- three ringy-dingys"

I also remember the Tasteful Lady and Edith Ann.

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