Edison

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.”

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    “Dave’s pizza and abortion clinic, your loss is our sauce” is a particularly spicy one I’ve heard.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Jim’s abortion clinic … We deletus your fetus

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    • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “You rape em, we scrape em”

      (I do not condone this message)

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  • joelfromaus@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I usually get people with: “Anons Morgue: you kill ‘em, we chill ‘em.”

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    • harmsy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      In my family it was variations of “Hello, Joe’s whatever. Insert rhyme here.”

      One of my favorites was “Joe’s mortuary, you stab 'em we slab 'em.”

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    • renormalizer@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “You bag 'em, we tag 'em”

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  • philoko@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    My go to is “Yellow”

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Mine is somewhere between yellow and howdy. If you call a Texas Drunk you should be prepared for a “Yeowdy”.

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I usually hit my friends with the “sup fuckface”

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    • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I throw a fucko out there into the world every now on then

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  • plantedworld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    “Duffy’s Morgue, you stab em we slab em.”

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Snackbar Harry, Harry speaking

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Mushu Mushu

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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.

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    • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Mosh moof

      Fuck, I can’t do it, they’re right!

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    • bort@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I like the explanation that devious spirits cannot say this phrase and that’s why it’s used

      Evil spirits can not say the same word twice in a row. Foxes can not say “moshi”. With “moshi moshi” you get a 2-for-1 special.

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  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Japanese people answer their phone like that, everything is fine.

    I answer my phone like that, I’m branded a weaboo for the rest of my life.

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  • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I can’t read this phrase anymore without reading it in Admiral Kizaru’s voice automatically.

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• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Fuck Edison.

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  • Dippy@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Graham-bell isn’t better. He was super duper ableist and pressured Helen Keller to identify with her blindness instead of her deafness

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I love the fact that Burns answers the phone this way. Subtle jokes like this are the reason why The Simpsons is infinitely rewatchable.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Edison deserves hate for more than that

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• Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  <slow heavy breathing>

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    open mouth chewing on potato chips “Yeah?”

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “TIMMY, put those down!”

      [child shrieking in the background]

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Angry Silence

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      With adjusted volume to make it louder for the listener

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• fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Edison was a cunt.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Edison was 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.

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  • onion@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    French as well I think

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    • mister_monster@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah there’s a whole TV show about that from the 80s.

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  • deus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That makes sense cause in Brazil we say “alô” when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.

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  • Quereller@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    In Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    In Finnish we also say “haloo”

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• waigl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Funny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ve always been curious how people greeted each other before “hello”. Did we just say “good day” and variations thereof?

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    • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Most English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials

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    • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Greetings, traveler.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well, Howdy is a contraction of “How do you do?”, hence the somewhat rarer “Howdy do!”, and Goodbye is a contraction of “God Be With You!”

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  opens phone, “…moshi mo…” infinibonked for weebery

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• maculata@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  So apparently the new shit spam evil calls can record the most minimal sample of your voice and then spoof it to your friends and family…

  It almost seems worth saying nothing until ‘they’ say something, but then, what if they are a spoofed caller…

  Oh shit. Just don’t use phones any more.

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  • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    If you don’t recognize the number, answer in a funny accent. That’s how you defeat the voice harvesters.

    ring ring Sombrero repair, como es?

    ring ring [deep voice] Investigations.

    ring ring HJECKIN?

    ring ring [high pitched voice] OOIIO BO IMA SO GLAD YE RANG DOLLINGA

    ring ring thinkyefurcullinpapajhonzzewoodyalacktatryourpapalopadoussoosageasperigusdoughdopoloostoday?

    ring ring [monkey noises]

    ring ring OOOOOHHHHHHHH COME ON EILEEN, I BEG OF YA PLEASE

    ring ring [raspy voice] Jerome?

    ring ring [dictation voice, right up against microphone] THANK YOU FOR FALLING KMART. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE CALLING ABOUT SO WE MAY DIRECT YOUR CALL

    ring ring [moaning so intense it would make Sarah Grey blush]

    ring ring WEAR MAH CHIL’ SUPPORT AT JEROME

    ring ring [play Gilbert Garfield directly into microphone]

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Then they just scam your friends family with you doing a funny voice.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      ring ring “Drinking urine and help with kidney stones”

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Unless I am expecting a call, such as a delivery I just dont answer phone calls, if it’s important they will call again, if it’s less important they can message me like a normal human being.

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I mostly don’t ever answer calls I don’t recognize, and even the ones I do I don’t often answer if I’m at work etc. I’ve only answered calls when it’s for something important being delivered, fixed, or scheduled (recent examples in same order: TV, Internet, renting a place(less recent, but all I could think of)).

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  • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I had a friend try to use AI to mimic my voice and make me say some goofy stuff and it sounded nothing like me, so I think I’ve lucked out on that front

    It has been a while though, and it’s possible the technology has progressed to be able to clone my uncloneable voice

    !I was tempted to say chat member but I hate advertising or talking about that at all, so enjoy this spoiler explaining something that didn’t need explaining!<

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• chauncey@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Fun fact - this is why Mr. Burns always answers the phone with “ahoy”

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• CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Had to look it up, and the story is actually really cool. Heres a great article from NPR

  npr.org/…/a-shockingly-short-history-of-hello

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• davemeech@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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• LightTrails@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Ahoy hoy

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  • blattrules@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Excellent

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• sqw@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  my go-to when im forced to answer unknown callers is “who is this?”. then i disconnect if they dont answer my question

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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    “Who dares to disturb my slumber?”

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  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That’s kind of bizarre tbh but I guess you just never get contacted by folks who aren’t in your phone?

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    • Glowstick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      To me it sounds like OP’s opener is exactly for people who aren’t contacts saved in his phone. It sounds perfect to me

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    • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The only folk who have trouble identifying themselves when calling my private phone, are spammers.

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• Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Let’s compromise!

  Alloy.

  Or what we can agree on: HO. Omg Santa was right all along.

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Great, now I’m fighting metal dinosaurs.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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".

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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

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• MoonJellyfish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Thomas Edison kinda looks like my granduncle who was beating his wife.

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  • citrusface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Your Gruncle, you say?

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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• daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Pronto

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  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Based Meucci enjoyer

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  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Is it just to swedes “pronto” sounds like it would mean “hurry up”? Or is that everyone?

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    • nefonous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      In Italian it just means “ready”, but in English is used in a completely different way. Probably Sweden got the usage from English

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    • aeki@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Vad har det med Sverige att göra? As a Spanish speaker, that’s just one its meanings in Spanish.

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    • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Ive always heard it to mean “hurry up” or “be quick” too.

      … I am 1/4 swedish though so I dunno?

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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  When in see a post like this, ibsee a new friend.

  Fuck Edison you idea stealing cuck.

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  • prex@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I heard he electrocuted an elephant.

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah because he wanted to make Teslas ac electricity look evil, but just made everyone there hate him.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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• _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I answer with “Yes?”

  It gets straight to the point

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• dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Holy shit, the Captain had it right all along!

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• johsny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yo bitch.

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• 01011@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  “What do you want?” is how I’ve been answering the phone of late.

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• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  youtu.be/YFWgyi-zzmE?si=UKIDIOBqoFjvYHoq

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• Cicraft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  does nobody remember Antonio Meucci anymore?

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• tslnox@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  If there is any Cimrmanologist around

  Hola hola, tam Weigel.

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