More "nothing new under the sun."

The tied-shoes over the telephone line - been around awhile and fraught with myth and symbolism, most of which is just that and nothing more.  It's a sign of our times BUT it was actually started back in the middle ages.  Folks not only threw shoes and boots over the laundry and other lines but also threw hunchbacks, morons, warlocks, heretics, debtors, and unpopular people over the wires until the Magna Carta was issued in 1215.!