Date:    Fri, 1 May 1998 16:29:25 +1000
<br>From:    Ross Chambers <maelduin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
<br>Subject: Hello! Hello!
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<br>The dramatised Alexander Grahame Bell, in a biographical TV film used
<br>his preferred, but short-lived "Ahoy!" as an initial greeting on the
<br>newly invented telephone.
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<br>I was dialogue editor (a technical function) on this 2 part series
<br>coproduced by a Canadian and a New Zealand company. The American
<br>director/writer lived in fear of the Smithsonian finding factual fault,
<br>and asserted the authenticity of this attempted coining.
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<br>Kind regards - Ross Chambers.
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<br>Ross Chambers           Sydney       Australia
<br>maelduin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ozemail.com.au
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<br>"L'Australia non e solo agli antipodi, e lontana da tutto,
<br>  talora anche da sa stessa."
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<br>(Australia is not only  at the Antipodes, she is away from everything,
<br>sometimes even from herself)
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<br>Umberto Eco
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