answering the phone
Many people think answering the phone with "hello" is common. My mate took it to an extreme and answered the phone with a rather curt "What?"

So I started answering the phone with "Ahoy-hoy"
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 18:34, 15 replies)

How about
Whatthefuckdoyouwantnow?

Guaranteed it's not common.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 18:47, closed)

I can't remember who...
...or why, but I remember reading about someone who answered "Telephone?". Always amused me, that.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 18:56, closed)

Here ya go!
How 'bout "Heaven-o?"

(Worksafe, but may make you feel a bit ill.)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:07, closed)

that's not common
that's dangerously unhinged
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:08, closed)

Dangerously unhinged?
That's Texas, which is the place of origin of the Bush clan.

Yeah, I'd say you've got it right. (No offense, flirtingwithbadgers.)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:12, closed)

It makes you wonder where it'll stop.
Have they adopted the phrase "purple heaven-met" as well?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:13, closed)

Thats brilliant
The stupid/god-fearing Americans have truely outdone themselves with that one.

Id say they should win some sort of prize but that might spur them on.
(i should have joined myspace, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:20, closed)

I'd be curious
to know if they're still doing this- that was eleven years ago, after all.

...what am I saying? This is Texas- of course they are!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:24, closed)

From personal experience
I can tell you that answering the phone with "Speak Your Brains" really doesn't work.
(Big D, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:54, closed)

Sometimes
I bark
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 20:10, closed)

Mushy Mushy?
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( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 21:23, closed)

Moshi moshi
I think you mean.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:14, closed)

The Bird Is The Word!
Unfortunately, for everyone who rings me currently, they will be presented with this phase instead of the usual sturdy "hello" I normally give.

Damn you Family Guy!
(ShaunyBoi has been surviving fires since, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 0:39, closed)

FACTS
When the telephone was invented there was no etiquette concerning how to answer.
The first words proposed were Ahoy-hoy but then I think it was decided that that was a bit gay.
They then thought of something along the lines of 'please speak' but that didn't really work.
So they made up a whole new word 'hello'.
Before this Hello was not used as a greeting. The word Hullo existed as an expression of surprise, as in 'Hullo, what's this?'. Spelling it with an e was invented for use with the telephone.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:13, closed)

When i answer the phone..
I say nothing.
I like to wait and see what they say first.
(ShitBitch, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:28, closed)