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   Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 18:26:34 JST Rob Landley

   I've taken to answering the phone "Potato" instead of "Hello", because a human will go "what?" and a robocall will fail to determine what language it should start its script in.

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     🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SolusSpider🇺🇸 (solusspider@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 14:27:38 JST 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SolusSpider🇺🇸

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     @landley What does "answering the phone" mean? *grin*

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     Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 14:28:19 JST Shriram Krishnamurthi

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     • Rob Pike

     @landley I too grunt (like @robpike), but when I'm in a more friendly mood, I instead go "Ahoy, ahoy!", because that's how Alexander Graham Bell answered the phone. It serves the same purpose as a grunt or "potato" but has the added edge of letting you pass on an anecdote to your caller if they're a good person to hear it.

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