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[โ€“] Protoknuckles 172 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I always read symbiote spider man in this movie as Parker with the confidence to act how he thought would be cool. And he thought it would be cool to answer the phone in an unexpected way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 122 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's exactly what it was. He wasn't supposed to be cool, he was doing what he thought was cool. I don't understand how people watch the part of him walking down the street finger gunning everyone and miss that.

[โ€“] FenrirIII 2 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

It's like his inner id running loose

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

Is the symbiote the horse or the rider?

[โ€“] someguy3 70 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago
[โ€“] PunnyName 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] samus12345 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

This wasn't just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:

Alexander Graham Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be "ahoy", but instead "hello" (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps Thomas Edison's greatest crime.

[โ€“] ace_garp 1 points 2 hours ago

I still think we should switch over to Italian answering:

"Pronto!" == 'ready'