Heaven-o! Friday, April 4, 2008
Posted by noni in greeting.Tags: hello, texas, wikipedia
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On my search to find the perfect first-post greeting for my newest blog endeavor, I stumbled across a rather funny bit of information…
Lo and behold! The gradual extinction of the socially-acceptable “hello”:
In 1997, Leonso Canales Jr. from Kingsville, Texas convinced Kleberg County commissioners to designate “heaven-o” as the county’s official greeting, on the grounds that the greeting “hello” contains the word “hell”, and that the proposed alternative sounds more “positive”.
Haha, Wikipedia, you never fail to amuse me. Next thing you know there’s going to be complaints about “Hi” because it implies the effects of drug-use or whatever nonsense the human mind can come up with these days.
Oh look, I’m already ranting. I think I’m off to a good start.