Known as “The Telephone Lady”, Jane Barbe was the voice of the telphone system around the US (and many parts of the english speaking world) for most of the 1970s and into the mid to late 1980s. She passed away on July 18 in Roswell Georgia.

Barbe also understood that her ubiquitous presence was sometimes a source of hostility: “I know people get frustrated sometimes at the sound of my voice,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times in 1992. “One day I heard my own mother in the other room bang down the phone and say, ‘Oh, shut up, Jane!’”

Be sure to listen to the RA clip on that first link to the end and you’ll catch a brief part of an interview with her.

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Cool little Flash game for you Monkey Ball addicts who are finished with Monkey Ball 2. (Stolen from Linkfliter.net.)