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Years ago, ranchers in Douglas County near Castle Rock CO had a private party line that was a big circle- it used the top wire of the barbed wire fences, allowing you to ring your neighbors- or to one office in Castle Rock that could plug you into the regular phone net. The more people listening in, the lower the volume of the call. They used to joke about one little old lady that talked so fast, she knocked all the barbs off the barbed wire.