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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 hour 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-up4·1 hour agoPerhaps Thomas Edison’s greatest crime.
Ahoy hoy.
Mushmushi!
C Montgomery Burns?‽
This wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:
Perhaps Thomas Edison’s greatest crime.