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People often grossly underestimate the importance of telephone manners. Actually, no, that’s very true. That was going to be a joke about this video (tears up speech, throws it away) but now I’m thinking about it and these days it’s like nobody’s parents even bothered to teach them telephone manners AT ALL. Or their videos. “Didn’t your video teach you any manners?” is what people will ask in the future. For example, everyone on every bus I have ever been on has been on the phone the entire time, with NO exaggeration. And people at CD stores can be very rude when you call to see if they have any “Boy Band CDs.” Learn some manners! This video is very important, everyone should have to watch this video. (Via Everything Is Terrible)
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remember to put sunglasses on your horse while making calls
That horse is the real Unabomber!
That horse is Bad Horse’s cousin. Shady Horse. He didn’t make it into the league.
He’s the thoroughbred of sass!
I think it’s pretty mean for the blonde one to emphatically gesture toward her friend when she says “The telephone was invented by a MAN!”
I imagine most kids will just be totally flabbergasted at this video’s insinuation that a telephone is a thing you use to TALK to people.
If only those Asians in the library would’ve have seen this video.
“C’MON! FOLLOW US!”
i am so sorry. should have read the comments first. great to see we both make the same mind leaps though!
Shut up and drive!!! There. Now I feel better.
Thank you, Rihanna.
They seem pretty young to have so many hang-ups.
It seems like these performances were…
Phoned in?
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Really? I thought they were….. Off the hook.
They would be if they dialed it down a touch
Where’s the rapper from ARK Music Factory? Shouldn’t he have a verse about sexting?
Do I need to apologize for New Mexico? I’ve done it before, I’ll do it again.
Hold on, BRB.
A little known fact about A.G. Bell: He is considered a villain in the Deaf community. He stumbled upon the telephone while trying to make a hearing aid for his Deaf wife. He started the oralist movement in America, which banned sign language in Deaf schools. In fact today the Alexander Graham Bell association is still pushing an oralist agenda which promotes lip reading over American Sign Language.
Elisha Grey thinks he’s a jerk too.
Also he wanted people to say “Ahoy” as a greeting when they made calls. That’s weird. What a weird guy!
It’s not weirder than “Moshi moshi”
Me: Why do you say moshi moshi when answering the phone?
Japanese friend: It means hello.
Me: Yeah, but the only time anyone ever says hello that way is on the phone. Why?
Japanese friend: Because we are weird.
Not cool, says Elisha Gray. Not cool.
He’s pretty.
Whoops, plagiarist comment day has come for me today.
If you must plagiarize be it about Elisha Gray
-The Book of Gum
Oh my god, I just thought about hair wraps for the first time since 2002.
If we’re following the Spoonful of Sugar theory, did they think that the telephone history lesson was going to make the manners lecture more exciting, or vice versa?
I can’t watch this at work, but related (maybe) story:
I had to teach a guy I dated to say some form of “Bye” at the end of a phone call. Constantly I would be on the phone with him and he would just hang up after answering a question or something. I soon realized he was like that with everyone. I think he might have been raised by movies where everyone’s constantly much too busy to politely end a phone call.
Now he’s my ex, and he still sucks, but at least he knows how to end a conversation.
The recommended way (according to the early phone books) was to say “That is all.” and just walk away!
there’s a inspiring tale. trying to change a man DOES WORK, is what needs to be said! more often!
Was he a lawyer? My uncle is a lawyer and he blames that for why he just ends conversations by hanging up.
“come on! follow us! FOR EVER. AND EVER. AND EVER.”
the brown one is a mini rebecca black that is where she got her lyric skillz
The “instant replay” sounds just like Gabe’s “excited” delivery in the Gabe & Max videos