Just as the ducks at the park are free, there is also no legal requirement to answer the phone in particular way. Hit folks with a, “Ahoyhoy”, “Howdy”, “Whats good brother?”, or for the more adventurous, “Ralphs Roadkill Cafe. You kill it, we grill it.”
“Dave’s pizza and abortion clinic, your loss is our sauce” is a particularly spicy one I’ve heard.
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Jim’s abortion clinic … We deletus your fetus
Fetus Deletus was my favorite spell to cast at Hogwarts.
I usually hit my friends with the “sup fuckface”
I throw a fucko out there into the world every now on then
Snackbar Harry, Harry speaking
“Duffy’s Morgue, you stab em we slab em.”
Fuck Edison.
Graham-bell isn’t better. He was super duper ableist and pressured Helen Keller to identify with her blindness instead of her deafness
Edison was apparently quite successful, to the point where some languages other than English have a word that sounds like “hello” (for example, Russian “allo”) which is used only when answering the phone.
In Finnish we also say “haloo”
That makes sense cause in Brazil we say “alô” when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.
Imagine Edison trying to patent the “hello” greeting to get royalties every time someone answered the phone.
Then the incel fanbois defending Edison, insisting he invented the term 'hello".At this point I think there are more incel fanbois overhyping Tesla, still believing he really did have perpetual energy death rays invented by Ancient Egyptian aliens
Dude was brilliant, but he was also very, very crazy… and a name that comes up a lot when I’m on the “Spirit Science and Ancient Aliens are perfectly valid methods of self-education in comparison.” side of Youtube
Not that I’m defending Edison mind you, every cent he ever gained was earned by Tesla.
Ahoy, guys.
Be the change you want to see in this world, don’t let Thomas Edison continue to shit on everything from his grave.
I answer with “Yes?”
It gets straight to the point
I always liked in Momento he picked up the phone and immediately asked, “Who is this?”
The dutch way
I love the fact that Burns answers the phone this way. Subtle jokes like this are the reason why The Simpsons is infinitely rewatchable.
Moshi Moshi
I like the explanation that devious spirits cannot say this phrase and that’s why it’s used. Apparently it’s also just a casual way of saying “I’m ready to talk” and was used by early telephone operators in Japan. It’s most likely people just ended up copying the phrase from operators and aren’t worried about being tricked by foxes.
Mosh moof
Fuck, I can’t do it, they’re right!
Better luck next time, nine-tails.
I can’t read this phrase anymore without reading it in Admiral Kizaru’s voice automatically.
slow heavy breathing
open mouth chewing on potato chips “Yeah?”
With adjusted volume to make it louder for the listener
“TIMMY, put those down!”
[child shrieking in the background]
Had to look it up, and the story is actually really interesting. Heres a great article from NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/02/17/133785829/a-shockingly-short-history-of-hello
opens phone, “…moshi mo…” infinibonked for weebery
Edison was a cunt.
Ahoy hoy
Excellent
Funny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.
Let’s compromise!
Alloy.
Or what we can agree on: HO. Omg Santa was right all along.
Great, now I’m fighting metal dinosaurs.
