"Everytime I Phone You, I Just Want to Put You Down"

Speaking of phones, my 70-year-old aunt to this day has had the same wall-mounted, rotary-dial bakelite phone since the 1960s--and it has yet to be beat for voice quality and reliability. Funny how all the developments in telephony since (from cordless phones to mobile phones) have only made sound quality and reliability worse. (The only advantage--and it's a dubious one at that--of current phones is their portability.) I figure a few more advances in telephone technology and it will be completely unusable.