This reminds me of parent's story about getting a collect call.... from the south pole.
My parents were throwing a party. It was getting later. My mom was in the kids wing putting my brother and I to bed. (We were like 7 and 4). When a guest walked in and said, 'there's a collect call from the south pole, do I accept the charges.'
A friend of my parents was at the south pole for a year and called to say hi. I turned out he knew most everybody that was at the party. So they passed around the phone for a couple hours. The best part was that while we were talking to the south pole. The call was set up using a Ham Radio patch so the actually phone call originated within 50 miles. (the local ham op had no problem patching the call through, he just did not want to pay the phone bill.) This meant that a long collect call from the south pole cost less than $20.
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Date: 2004-08-02 01:11 am (UTC)My parents were throwing a party. It was getting later. My mom was in the kids wing putting my brother and I to bed. (We were like 7 and 4). When a guest walked in and said, 'there's a collect call from the south pole, do I accept the charges.'
A friend of my parents was at the south pole for a year and called to say hi. I turned out he knew most everybody that was at the party. So they passed around the phone for a couple hours. The best part was that while we were talking to the south pole. The call was set up using a Ham Radio patch so the actually phone call originated within 50 miles. (the local ham op had no problem patching the call through, he just did not want to pay the phone bill.) This meant that a long collect call from the south pole cost less than $20.