Ahoy-hoy

It's Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday.

If you don't know who AGB is you're probably not too bright, but that's okay if you're pretty. Its not my standard, but I stand by it. For those of you C-Cups and above, Bell was the first to patent the telephone. By all accounts of what they teach you in 7th grade history class, he was the inventor of the telephone, but there is some argument. If you want to fight about it we'll do it with knives, like real men, as for now let's move on.

AGB was all about answering the telephone "Ahoy-hoy." I've been known to answer my phone with this and people seem to get really thrown off. After how many consecutive phone calls does my salutation no longer shock you? I'm sorry I am not conforming to the status quo. My response was to say "Look, if you don't like it then stop calling!" Supposedly, no one liked it...

But Monty Burns was not the only reason I started using Ahoy-hoy! The word hello only came about in 1883. Its amazing to think of how someone would greet each other without this word being in common use. Hello is slang that has stuck around. If you were to travel back in time 100 years and try to hold a conversation with someone they'd be like "WTF?!" and even more "WTF?!" when I said "WTF?!" If it's one thing I worry about, its being able to blend with the public if I'm ever caught in a situation which randomly hurls me back in through the channels of time placing me at important events that helped mold life as we know it today. It keeps me up at night.

But today, or more likely yesterday, we celebrate the achievements of this great man. I'm not sure if he did anything else great that is known to the public, but I feel he deserves at least one more credential under his belt. Inventors, like many creative people, probably work best late at night, so when those famous first words of, "Mr. Watson - Come Here - I Want To See You." were spoken it was probably in the wee hours of the morning. Thus, AGB transmitted not only the first electromagnetic voice, he made the first booty call. Because anything after 11:00pm is not for business purposes.