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It is from a 70s children's tv series called Catweasel. The eponymous character is a wizard who is surprised by 'modern' technology like the electric light bulb "sun in a bottle" and the telephone "telling bone"
Answer the tellingbone will you please? My hands are in the washing up water.
TELEPHONE.
Self explanatory.
I believe this is a mainly Aussie expression in rhyming slang, but may be used within the sound of the bell (cockney-ism).
"Get him on the tellingbone".
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