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A rudimentary type of 19th century telephone, the telephone relied on system of folks and their immediate friends to tension wires at a precise time in order to generate barometric frequencies that would route the users call to the appropriate destination by using a complex series of gears and pulleys.
Fun fact there are only 3 surviving onfonem operators left alive in the world!
Fun fact there are only 3 surviving onfonem operators left alive in the world!
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Fuck nigga on fonem grave
A fuck nigga is a bitch ass nigga who never on shit and on fonem grave is swearing on a dead homie or close friend that’s in a pack🚬
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)