Posted by Rick Merrill on 12/03/05 20:16

Bob wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:06:54 GMT, NunYa Bidness
> <nunyabidness@nunyabidness.org> wrote:
>
>
>>>"This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
>>>as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to
>>>us."
>>>-- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
>
>
>> Do you know who really invented the telephone? It was not Bell. He
>>stole it. Apparently, it was important enough for them and him to
>>filch it from the true inventor of the technology.
>
>
> I thought the Russians invented everything, except the Internet which
> Al Gore invented.
>


It's TRUE: just look at the back and you'll see it is credited to
the russian inventor "Regus Patoff"!

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