I can just picture the 1974 blue collar guy crawling under the house running the wire for this congratulating himself for being a genius. Absolutely something my dad would do.
We had a land line on the wall next to my parent's bathroom toilet at one house in 2006. I was always curious about it. It did not help that their bathroom was huge and the toilet was right as you walked in and walled on 3 sides.
That house also had a stripper pole on a platform in the loft.