>> What an interesting little side piece of history, I don't remember them though, bit before
>> my time.
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They ended in 1993, according to the article.
It's funny, it suddenly came to me, I think I picked up the wording and the special tone of voice they used, as a child. Like the shipping forecast and football results, and commodity futures market reports, I loved them without needing to understand what they meant.
Likewise the special voice that telephone operators used, in the days when you picked up the phone and waited for the operator to say "Number please?". They got cross if you were impatient and pinged the chrome button. Like waitresses and shop assistants in aspiring smarter establishments, they put on a sort of grotesque posh voice.
Phoning long-distance I could never overcome the giggles at having to say "Trunks please" - it was mixed in my mind with buying games and swimming kit for first day at school.
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