On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:31:53 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 10:44:16 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
>> This reminds me to the first message spoken into a telephone by Phillip >> Reis:"Pferde fressen keinen Gurkensalat." (Horses don't eat salad from >> cucumbers). > Phillip Reis? Must be the European perspective. Us Americans were > always taught that the first telephone message was spoken by > Alexander Graham Bell: "Come here, Watson, I need you." (Watson > was Bell's assistant) Yeah, and he did it in Canada. <G> Perspective: It's all in the semantics of that sentence. The following is 100% true: The first message spoken into a telephone by Clarence Verge: "Mom ? Is that you ?" <G> - Clarence Verge. -- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL.
