Thursday, February 5, 2009

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Elwood Edwards’s voice is heard more than 27 million times a day (which comes to more than 18,000 times per minute). Edwards is the man behind those special three words—no, not "I love you," but "You’ve got mail."

7 comments:

  1. this is cool...where did you find this?
    BTW- have watched Shatner's Raw Nerve and it's pretty good. Fran Dreschler has quite a story. Wow.

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  2. You know, Elwood's voice is a tad annoying, but I feel bad when I don't hear it!

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  3. I never hear it any more since I haven't used AOL for a long time, but the memory lingers. :-)

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  4. From the Useless Knowledge gadget on iGoogle.

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  5. My sister interviewed him a while back (he lives -or did then- in the Puget Sound area in WA).
    He said that people recognized his voice and for some reason wanted to hear him say "you've got mail" live-which is odd. It's not a talent or anything fun to see visually.
    (but my sister did ask him to say it)

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  6. Joy, you are the trivia queen!!! Nice to put a person with the voice.

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