Current Usage of "Hello"

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:01 PM -0400 6/4/05, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>And here's an example slightly predating _Back to the Future_:
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>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/net.auto/msg/b74597afbce21bc5
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>Newsgroup: net.auto
>Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 07:42:04 EDT
>Subject: Re: 55 mph kills
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><argument "proving" that 55 MPH speed limit costs as many lives as it
>saves has been omitted for clarity>
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>Eh?  HellooOOoo!  Anybody home?
>
>Hmm, Time Wasted Driving Slow == Time Being Dead  (?)

I don't know.  I suspect this character just traveled back to 1984 in
his DeLorean.  (Note that he's obviously overcompensating because of
feeling remorse about going over 88 m.p.h., at which point the flux
capacitor must have kicked in.)

L