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- From: 002519m@ace.acadiau.ca (KRISTIAN AARON MACCALL)
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- Subject: Re: Phone shenanigans
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:59:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.154756.26406@ms.uky.edu> al@ms.uky.edu (Al Smith) writes:
- >From: al@ms.uky.edu (Al Smith)
- >Subject: Re: Phone shenanigans
- >Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 20:47:55 GMT
-
- >cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin) writes:
-
- >>Telephones are wonderful devices, and can provide hours of entertainment
- >>for you and your fellow pranksters. Some of my favorites:
-
- >>1. Call the local number for the weather and record it. Then call some
- >>poor person (preferably someone you know :) , and play back the recording.
-
- >>2. Call someone's answering machine, record thier message. Call them back,
- >>and play back thier greeting as your message. Some people actually get
- >>worried that thier answering machine is broken...
-
- >Another Cool thing to do, along the same lines is,
- >If you have conference or three-way calling, when you call someone and
- >their answeringmachine answers, take this opportunity to click over to
- >the other line and call the local weather number. Then click back to
- >connect all three lines. When their machine beeps, it will record part, if not
- >all of the weather as the mwssage.
-
- >HAHA!
-
- >Have fun
- >.
-
- Some friends and I did something like that once. First, we called this
- 1-800 number (something about space-camp or whatever...) and after that we
- clicked over and dialed a pay-phone that we knew the number of. Somebody
- answered, and all they heard was this buddy going on about spacecamp, with
- some really tacky background music. The guy on the payphone was busting up
- laughing and getting his friends to come over and listen, etc...
-
- Anyway, I've also played various cassettes into the receiver and left music
- or comedy skits or whatever on answering machines too...
-
- I haven't been involved in phone pranks in a while...I should get back into
- it...
-