In a shocking twist, the vagrant-looking guy from the 1928 Charlie Chaplin footage may not have actually been a time-traveler talking on a cell phone. Live Science says the guy was probably just holding an old-timey hearing aide.
What [Insanely long-winded] Irish filmmaker George Clarke didn’t consider was that a simple ear trumpet could still explain it all, said hearing device historians.
“As you can tell from these pictures, old-fashioned mechanical or resonating hearing aids were not necessarily long and rounded,” said Philip Skroska, an archivist at the Bernard Becker Medical Library of Washington University in St. Louis.
“Short, compact rectangular forms were not unusual.” In other words, they could look something like a cell phone to imaginative YouTube viewers in the 21st century. [LiveScience]
Ear trumpets, well of course. Everyone had an ear trumpet back then. We used to use them so we could talk to each other while we were flagpole sitting, which was all the rage at the time. “Hey Jebediah, ain’t this flagpole sittin’ just the bee’s knees? Why I’m so happy I could do the Charleston,” we used to shout to each other, bee’s knees being a form of currency at the time. “Give ya six knees for a half shilling,” we used to say.
"Eh? Speak into the butthorn, butthorn."
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Cunt trumpets are, and will always be, the cat’s pajamas.
Nuh uh, Occam’s razor. Time-traveler talking on a cell phone.
I honestly thought all this crazy hype was about an extra using a cell phone on a new movie about Chaplin.
That item looks to big to be the item in question. Also, it doesn’t explain why she is chattering away, or why she would need to hold it up to her ear when no one is talking to her.
Ya, cuz by the time we can time travel, and why in the bloody cunt wouldn’t we travel to a Chaplin film set, cell phones won’t be an outmoded form of communication next to the cyber implants in our brains and eyes. But fuckwits will still be playing Farmville.
That looks like the popcorn container Gary Busey favored back in 19dickety8. He had to use the word “dickety” back then because the Kaiser stole the word “twenty.” He chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles…
That item looks to big to be the item in question. Also, it doesn’t explain why she is chattering away, or why she would need to hold it up to her ear when no one is talking to her.
1928 was fucking boring, man. You had to talk to yourself or you’d go crazy.
Kahless on a Kracker! HOW DOES HE LOG ON WITH RICKY??? Damn you Uproxx! UPROXX!!!
Oh, wait, erm…oh, an “incoming transmission”!
I watsched dat chawlie chiplin cleep, eet wush fakkin terrwble, eet look lahk shumone jeezed awl ovuh eet!
Guy’cha! Intergalactic Ricky!
You guys all remember Ricky, right? The hearing impaired dude with a speech impediment that liked to do Adam Sandler impressions that The Mighty Feklahr knew in college? It’s not THAT esoteric!
Next you’re going to tell me it’s a weather balloon. No way, not buying it.
Yes it is.
Listen, I didn’t spend 5 years at the University of Phoenix so I could not know how to tell the difference between a cell phone, an ear horn, and a portable piss-catcher.
QAH’PLAH Drunkards!
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BRAAAAAAAAHHHHM!!!!
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I hope those last 3 sentences or so were meant as an homage to Abe Simpson.
Has nobody worked out the conundrum to how this bitch is supposed to be using a celluar phone in 1928 WHEN THERE ARE NO FUCKING CELL TOWERS!!!!
If I ever travel back to 1928, the first thing I would bring would be a cellphone, so I can use Google Map and call my grandparents in rural Austria.
This incident proves that they are among us, that they are lizard beings, and that cell phone technology is not only alien-tech, but depends on a single cloaked space craft that orbits the Earth. Cell phone towers are a massive cover up to keep us from knowing about The Visitors.
For me, sexting in 1928 would be a lot like sexting in 2010.