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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-210 hours agoThis wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age: Alexander Graham Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be “ahoy”, but instead “hello” (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted.
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·10 hours agoPerhaps Thomas Edison’s greatest crime.
minus-squareace_garp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 hours agoI still think we should switch over to Italian answering: “Pronto!” == ‘ready’
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·33 minutes agoI’m just going to go with shalom. If Spider-Man says it’s cool, who am I to argue
C Montgomery Burns?‽
This wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:
Perhaps Thomas Edison’s greatest crime.
I still think we should switch over to Italian answering:
“Pronto!” == ‘ready’
I’m just going to go with shalom. If Spider-Man says it’s cool, who am I to argue