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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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.
Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.) More by Wm. Steven Humphrey
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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.
(I’m sure there were more great facts, but I only made it through the first 1:40.)
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.