Good bye!

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Originally posted by LePaul
I'll trade some info with you...I'll explain our phone-hangup procedure if you can answer our questions on British Orthodontics  

While you're at it,  maybe you can explain the American obsession with Orthodontics. Although I can't talk, I have a chip on my tooth that needs fixing.

As for the original question, I suggest you call someone in America and see if they say goodbye.  I think it's just movie convention like tyres screeching on dirt, phones always being answered immediately. The only time it's not answered is when the callee is dead which of course the caller immediately suspects.  Never locking cars as they walk away and immediately getting a parking space right outside the place they visit. Helicopters that start on the button like a car and cars that won't start at all just when the axe murderer is pursuing you. Bombs are never defused until that last two seconds. People drive miles across town to say something that could better be said on the phone. Cars that explode like bombs in mid air halfway down a cliff.

Need I go on? No!

Goodbye!

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We dont really say goodbye on the phone.  Mostly just 'talk to you later', or see you at the lab, or see you when I get home... blah blah blah.  Canadians on the other hand... They prefer the 'bye bye' line.  Those things just sound silly to me.  The french only say 'hello' when they answer the phone, never in normal greetings.  Just an odd cultural thing.  



Now, those damn british teeth.  What is up with that.  I love the antiques roadshow, but I cant even watch the original british version, its like watching the dental version of those car accident films for drivers education in high school.