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.
Snackbar Harry, Harry speaking
“Duffy’s Morgue, you stab em we slab em.”
Moshi Moshi
I can’t read this phrase anymore without reading it in Admiral Kizaru’s voice automatically.
Edison deserves hate for more than that
Fuck Edison.
I thought of the same. I assumed this anachronism was meant to imply he was incredibly old and around for the initial rollout of the telephone.
I love the fact that Burns answers the phone this way. Subtle jokes like this are the reason why The Simpsons is infinitely rewatchable.
Edison was a cunt.
slow heavy breathing
Ahoy hoy
Excellent
Funny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.
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
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".Yo bitch.
I answer with “Yes?”
It gets straight to the point
Let’s compromise!
Alloy.
Or what we can agree on: HO. Omg Santa was right all along.
Pronto
Is it just to swedes “pronto” sounds like it would mean “hurry up”? Or is that everyone?
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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