Daryl wrote --
 
>   They just cash in on the stupidity of the constituents who keep voting
> them in.

   Getting a bit close to modern times there...

> ... If you have a rotary phone, please press 1 now.

   I've seen vids of modern youth who have no idea how to operate one of
those.
   I have a 1947 black Bakelite phone (I no longer have a landline to wire
it to, but used to use it) that I refer to as a "conversation piece".  :)
   Joe
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