A.A.'s Versus The Phone!

A.A.'s - African-Americans, not Alcoholics Anonymous!

Yes, African-Americans! For some odd reason, and for the longest time, African-Americans have experienced the strangest of relationships with that time-honored apparatus

Whoopi Goldberg is one particularly striking case in this rather bizarre affliction. Here she is illustrating the odd rapport towards the ear piece in a scene that consists of little else than a long diatribe from her movie that was little else than an overtly long, long-winded, repetitious and tiring, sketch titled... "The Telephone."



She continued to experience trouble with the thing even when it wasn't hers at all but a public one in a booth - and here is the evidence, from another long-winded, full of hot air balloonesque flick called "Jumpin' Jack Flash" - simply because there was a classic song of the same name performed by an African-American singer already well-engrained into the public's collective consciousness - but that is another story...




And speaking of classic songs...







The one that takes the cake though is a classic of another form - that of extremely cheesy, tacky and perhaps even icky since it is a boy band hit, after all...

Here it is:





So - what is it with African-Americans and Telephones, eh?

Well... I have not the slightest idea!

Next time, we'll tackle the shoddy case of the Asian and the Blackberry...

And, perhaps, after that we'll delve into the sordid dynamics going on between the Caucasian and the symbiotic Notepad by its side...!!!

Who knows...!