The hotly anticipated new invention from those boys in silicon valley has now arrived - the telephone! With this ingenious device you can speak to someone else who is not in earshot. they might even be in the next village.
The world is going mad for the new device and pundits are predicting it will have a major role in achieving world peace.
'It is very clever the way you can use it to talk to someone else. I imagine it will put an end to the years of turmoil in the Gaza Strip and end the distrust between the Jew and Arab worlds. Mainly because it is shiny and black.' said Henry Kissinger yesterday.
A spokesman for everyone else on the planet said 'It's just a phone for f**ks sake!'