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The telephone box, or phone box as it is commonly known (because common people often have feeble tongues and can’t pronounce “tele”), is an object that has been invented countless times around the world since the dawn of history. Everybody who invents it believes he or she is the first person to do so. They should really pick up the telephone and check with an expert before jumping to such a grandiose conclusion.

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rdfs:comment	The telephone box, or phone box as it is commonly known (because common people often have feeble tongues and can’t pronounce “tele”), is an object that has been invented countless times around the world since the dawn of history. Everybody who invents it believes he or she is the first person to do so. They should really pick up the telephone and check with an expert before jumping to such a grandiose conclusion.
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abstract	The telephone box, or phone box as it is commonly known (because common people often have feeble tongues and can’t pronounce “tele”), is an object that has been invented countless times around the world since the dawn of history. Everybody who invents it believes he or she is the first person to do so. They should really pick up the telephone and check with an expert before jumping to such a grandiose conclusion. Phone boxes have been around (and a-rectangular) since Stone Age times, but the first recorded incident of people using a phone box was in Ancient Greece. A toga-clad couple were walking through the fish market when a builder accidentally dropped a box from his scaffolding. The box landed neatly on the couple's heads, coming to rest on their shoulders without causing any injuries, and they continued walking and talking in Ancient Greek as normal, but with the added comfort of knowing that they were doing so with a sturdy box on their heads. Unfortunately, they could not see where they were walking and there was a terrible accident. Knives are no longer displayed at neck height. Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the phone box caught on quickly among the Greek aristocracy, and was often used when talking with the head exposed was inappropriate, as when the speaker was making controversial statements and wished to remain anonymous in a crowded forum. Philosophers also used phone boxes regularly, because it seemed to help them cogitate – hence the expression "thinking inside the box". No remnants of Greek phone boxes are known to survive, though there is a funny piece of smelly rotten wood that archeologists can’t account for on the floor of the Parthenon.

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