home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!network.ucsd.edu!ucsbcsl!ucsbuxa!6500msd
- From: 6500msd@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Michael D'Errico)
- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
- Subject: Re: [Answering Machine Message]
- Message-ID: <6811@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 02:10:15 GMT
- References: <98082@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu
- Lines: 46
-
- In article <98082@netnews.upenn.edu> ths@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Grasshopper) writes:
-
- >I don't know if someone has posted this one yet, but here it is:
- >Answering machine message:
-
- >"Hello?"
- >"Hellooo?"
- >"Speak up, I can barely hear you."
-
- >By this time, the person on the other end of the phone will be screaming.
- >(I know, because I did)
-
-
- My sister lived in an apartment with 4 other girls in college. So
- most people calling her would not recognize me if I answered the
- phone. One day I decided to make an answering machine message for
- them that went something like this:
-
- "Hello?"
- (pause) caller asks "Is so-and-so there?"
-
- "Hold on, let me check..."
- (LONG pause)
- "No, she's not here so you better leave a message"
- BEEP
-
-
- Most people were really confused by this and actually thought
- there was a person talking to them (despite the beep). One
- person kept asking "Hello? Hello? Are you still there? HELLO?!!"
- ^^^^^
- maybe it was Andy the cornfield cowboy :)
-
-
- One drawback is you never know who is going to call -- my
- sister actually got a call from an interviewer to set up a
- meeting while this message was still active -- she didn't
- get the job (but she probably wouldn't want to work with
- someone with no sense of humor anyway :)
-
- Mike
- 6500msd@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
-
- P.S. send me a note if you read this since I think my
- newsreader isn't posting correctly. Thanks!
-
-