^ I looked it up (IMdB), but it’s too good to reveal. It’ll be our little secret. Oops!
We cool!
We geez 
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(“Geez” is now a verb; embrace the geez.)
CYpress was the exchange for part of San Jose, including the large IBM plant. “Cypress” ended up as the codeword for a major IBM project my father was involved with.
Since this is an old geezers thread, I’ll link to a nearly-60 year old documentary about the first disk drive, which I stumbled on just now, clicking for Cypress IBM.
Septimus G. Stevens VI – the man who gave me this awful name – appears in that documentary! :o
Whoa, that *is *cool. And uncredited!
Laura Petrie before she got hitched.
Laura Petrie’s legs. 
Just south of Alexandria, VA, we were in the SOuth exchange, growing up. Which could either be SO5 or SO8, regardless of where you were in the exchange.
Czarcasm, next you’ll be asking us if we remember our zone, as in city-zone-state, the precursor of Zip codes.
MOhawk 8
Well, you’re pretty sexy yourself, so it fits. 
Kingsley, I believe. Not that this was used in my lifetime: born late 1950s, by the time I knew our phone number I knew it as 545-xxxx. Sometimes people would read their numbers as K-I-5-xxxx and I was confused as hell. Not sure how I stumbled across the “Kingsley” reference.
All geezing aside, I don’t remember anyone actually using the exchange names, but then my telephonic memories start around 1970 or so, and I think they were phased out in the early sixties in Ontario.
My limited research suggests that Whitby (in the early 1970s (416) 668-XXXX, just the 668 exchange) was MOhawk, but I have no proof of this. Peterborough was (705) 74X-XXXX, and I think I remember my aunt saying that they used RIverside. Which makes sense, since Peterborough is on the Otonabee River.
I am truly geezin’ because it took Sunspace’s post for me to catch its significance!
Now I have a new motto: “I geez, therefore I am.”
And I can say to my brethren and sistren in time, “Come, let us geez together.”
My job here is done. ‘Geeze’ is now a verb. 
It may just be about time to have us another Geezer Sign-in Thread. How’s about somebody else doing one this time…
What’s a good cut-off number? 55? 60? Voter’s choice?
AARP membership is age 50 :eek: . I mention this because I’m not 55 until next April. Mrs. Burpo just turned 50 so the new joke is How do you spell [her name]? A-A-R-P!
Can we agree on the spelling? “Geez” or “Geeze”? (I don’t believe the “underline misspelled words feature” passed Geez but not Geeze. Jeez!
My town was KLondike.
I don’t remember that myself, but my parents told me about it.
I vote for “geeze”, like “freeze”.
That makes two.
Make that three. But I have to wonder if that means there must be Geezesses…
If so, we best go ahead with Geezepersons. 