The History of the Phone - Part 2

Having been found to produce no practical usefulness of any kind, the original telephone was sent to some crappy museum somewhere. The custodian, Jimmy Bimwassle, left it alone in a closet one day with a candlestick. Six months later, the product of that union was a viable hybrid which reproduced like hotcakes.

Now, at last, the world could talk to each other. Or itself. I'm not sure exactly how to phrase that . . .