Saturday, August 07, 2004

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.

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