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Ma Bell is Back

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the guess-who's-back-back-again dept.

brass1 writes Ma Bell is back. It seems that for the purposes of branding, SBC is changing its name to AT&T once the acquisition is complete. Meanwhile, a great force and a high pitched whining sound has been reported from Judge Greene's grave as he spins at nearly 10K RPM."

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  1. Cool by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we have Western Electric and Bell Labs back too?

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  2. service mark by blamanj · · Score: 5, Funny

    We Don't Care, We Don't Have To.

    Get Lily Tomlin on the line, she's got work to do.

  3. Re:Ma Bell? Yo no entiendo by DangerSteel · · Score: 5, Funny
    It was basically the phone company for the United States "back in the day". I think I remember thier motto to be:

    "We don't care, we don't have to !"

  4. I'm so sorry.... by Stavr0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Does that mean they're reviving the 'Death Star' logo too?

    "That blast came from the Death Star! That thing's operational!"
    "It's a trap!"

  5. In related news... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    SBC/AT&T announced they were looking to acquire the SCO Group and Lucent Technologies. Judge Greene's rotting corpse is reported to have been purchased by the local electric company, who announced it would be used for electric power generation it was spinning so fast, for an undisclosed sum

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  6. hmmm by StarvingSE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anyone remember the scene in Terminator 2 when Arnie shoots the frozen T-1000 and it smashes to a million pieces, only to coalesque back into a big glob of liquid metal again?

    For some reason that image came to mind when reading this article.....

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  7. Back to the Future Saw This Comming! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember in Back to the Future II when old Marty got a call from Needles and a voice at the end of the call said "Thank you for using AT&T"? Well it looks like that movie accurately predicted the return of the company back in 1988!

    That movie is like Nostradomus on flim!