Did Bell make the first booty call?
I get a chuckle out of the new SBC telephone company commercial that begins with the impersonated voice of Alexander Graham Bell uttering the first electronically transmitted vocal sentence: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you."
What makes the ad funny is that all the historical texts I've ever seen including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and Encarta record Bell's famous first call thus: "Watson, come here; I want you."
I guess the folks at SBC thought that whole "I want you" business might be misconstrued in this more entendre-alert age. Or maybe there was more to the Bell-Watson relationship than we've been told, and SBC is trying to hush it up.
What makes the ad funny is that all the historical texts I've ever seen including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and Encarta record Bell's famous first call thus: "Watson, come here; I want you."
I guess the folks at SBC thought that whole "I want you" business might be misconstrued in this more entendre-alert age. Or maybe there was more to the Bell-Watson relationship than we've been told, and SBC is trying to hush it up.
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