A Telephone Tangle.
"Are you there?" "Yes." "Who are you, please?" "Watt." "What is your name, please?" "Watt's my name." "Yes; what is your name?" "I say my name is Watt."
"Oh, well, I'm coming to see you this afternoon." "All right. Are you Jones?" "No, I'm Knott." "Who are you then, please?" •"I'm Knott." "Will you tell mo your name, please?" "Will iCnott." "Why won't you?" "I say my name is William Knott." "Oh, I beg your pardon !" "Then you'll be in this afternoon if I come round, Watt?" "Certainly, Knoll." They were "rung off" by the exchange. And now what Knott wants to know iy whether Watt will be in or not.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 71
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114A Telephone Tangle. Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 71
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