This is a recent post from my Unfinished Rambling(s) blog.
You know how I said my phone was Jewish last post, well, that’s not all it is. My new cell phone is British too. Don’t worry, I won’t break this down into every ethnicity or nationality that contributed to this phone. I mean, if we really wanted to do that, I’m sure we could figure out that one part of the phone came from South Africa, another from Myanmar, and so on and so forth. But I won’t do that…for now I’ll just stick to its Britishness and its Jewishness.
My new cell phone may be written in Hebrew, but it speaks in the Queen’s English, although I’m beginning to think that’s the case with most cell phone messages anymore, or at least the ones which I get from our cell phone provider.
Not that my cell phone really is a cell phone. When I use voice activation and a woman’s voice asks me to say a message, it’s a mo-bile (each part sounded out separately and distinctly, as “Moe” in the overrated Stooge and “bile” as in the fluid that issues forth from my pores when I hear how great Moe is, when we know that Larry was the glue that kept the whole trio or quartet, depending on when you saw them, together).
So when I call my sister, and the woman’s voice asks me which number, I say, “Mo-bile.”
And the woman’s voice asks, “Did you say ‘Mo-bile’?”
And I say, “Yes, I said ‘Mo-bile!’”
If like I did earlier today, and I say “Kim’s cell,” she says.
“Could you please repeat the message?” And then says, “Did you say e-mail?”
And so on and so forth.
And what isn’t with British accents anyway? I can’t help but laugh when I hear British accents. I think it’s growing up watching Monty Python, which probably was the first time I heard a British accent. So everytime I hear a British accent, I crack up. Of course, the subject matter might have something to do with it too:
And last, even though this story is a serious story about the environment, I can’t help but laugh as the British reporter talks about it (not to mention the subject).
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