Water Under the Bridge

This one is credited to my father, whose ability to not fully grasp emerging, (established) technologies (like a cell phone) spawned this latest “ism.” Manswering the phone the art of leveraging the caller ID feature to intentionally insert an honest and startling offhanded man-comment prior to engaging in the actual call. WTF? To further illustrate Manswering here is the process and an example; The mobile device rings or vibrates or plays the users inappropriate ring tone. The call recipient, it works best with men but some ladies can play this game at a high level, sees it is his wife by the caller ID registered in the device display. The call is answered and held just far enough away from the recipient’s mouth that the words the recipient will speak are obviously meant for someone other than the caller. Now comes the creative part, the Manswer must be not only relevant to the caller it must also be unusually inappropriate, the example; My brother who possesses a sharp and wicked sen