“ Hoping to catch her husband before his departure, the Philadelphia housewife dialled the number hurriedly. “Is this Joe’s Barber Shop?” she asked the voice at the other end. The unexpected response was, “Lady, this is the Cable Ship LONG LINES, 300 miles off the coast of England.” “Oh, for Pete’s sake, a wrong number is bad enough, but with my luck I end up with a drunk or a nut,” she announced disgustedly as she hung up to try again.
