The death of the hotline.

Do people even call non-pornography-related hotlines anymore? Do they even exist? While scanning through Giant Magazine's second installment of the Top 50 Commercials of the 80's (here's the first part, too), I was reminded of all of the fun that you could have on the phone in the late 80's/early 90's.
Let's say you were totally into LL Cool J.... You could call and spend like $7 (which in the late-80's was equivalent to $64) listening to him blab on about his new album. Let's say you needed answers about your life... Miss Cleo had it in the bag for you (for about $30).
If you were a teenybopper... Well, don't even get me started, but it's pretty safe to say that the Coreys would be happy to take your dial-a-dollars as well.

Maybe they need to bring back the hotline... My phone bills have been looking a little light lately.

~sarah p.