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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
History / Oh, You Kids! Improving One's Telephone Manners as Told Through the Medium of "Rap"
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:14 PM
White people invented the telephone, as well as "telephone manners." This truth we hold to be self-evident. However, white people ruined rap. Here is a video that depicts all of these things.
Thank you, Everything is Terrible.
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I'm trying to follow it. Alexander Graham Bell (no relation to Mr. Don't Expect Me To Help) dropped acid and invented the telephone. And AT&T paid for all of it! Even the horse's sunglasses! Highly educational.
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Two points here:
1. I knew this was headed downhill when I saw that the opening title caption card was typeset in the Sand font.
2. They unwittingly shed light on a true American innovation when they mentioned the sending of space satellites into space. Before that, space satellites were sent into the ground, which rather limited their effectiveness … well, quite a lot actually.
1. I knew this was headed downhill when I saw that the opening title caption card was typeset in the Sand font.
2. They unwittingly shed light on a true American innovation when they mentioned the sending of space satellites into space. Before that, space satellites were sent into the ground, which rather limited their effectiveness … well, quite a lot actually.
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