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Telephone Wars, Part Two

Now our friends in the Great White North are saying, to heck with that guinea from the imperialist US of A, that Al Bell did so invent the telephone.

Gentlemen, this means war.

[Update]

There's been a discussion over at Free Republic about the implications of this.

Southwestern Meucci, Altantic Meucci, Meucci South? This is going to take some getting used to.

and

Maybe there could be a compromise of sorts, and the new telephone company would be called "Mama Mia Bell."
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 22, 2002 04:37 PM
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I don't know. Ma Meucci just doesn't have the same ring.

Posted by Ken Summers at June 23, 2002 02:03 PM

When I was a kid I thought Ma Bell's first name must be Michelle, because of that Beatles song...

Posted by Kevin McGehee at June 24, 2002 12:28 PM


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