A big cat can be very dangerous, but a little pussy never hurt anyone

Phones and homosexuality: the early history

The first words spoken over a phone by Alexander Graham Bell:
Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.
On early phones, a conversation could be mistaken for a variant of the common blow job:
Having a real conversation, for example, required rapidly transferring the telephone between mouth and ear.
Early protocols were similarly gay:
You should begin by saying, “Hulloa,” [...]

BBC’s media player goes up to 11

Must be a British thing.

Why don’t you just make ten louder, and make ten the top number, and make that a little louder?
…These go to eleven.