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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 23:32:47 CST
- From: roy@cybrspc.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Not Your Typical Telecom/Radio Station Story
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 868, Message 8 of 8
- Lines: 70
-
- [Moderator's Disclaimer: The article which follows contains language
- which may be offensive to some readers. Although it *is* funny, it is
- a little out of character for the Digest. This is the final article in
- this issue, and if an excessive amount of profanity or vulgar
- expressions would offend you, then you should quit reading this issue
- at this time. PAT]
-
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-
- Many of the telecom/radio stories on the Digest have a technical theme.
- Not this one ...
-
- I was going through some old tapes from my radio days, and dug out a
- little gem I obtained years ago in Nome, Alaska through a very strange
- route. An ex-staff member hailed from Providence, Rhode Island, and
- had returned after his stint was over. A few months later, the
- station got a letter from him, with a little enclosure. 100 or so
- feet of tape, wrapped around a piece of cardboard. There was a note
- on the cardboard ... "It will be worth it."
-
- We laboriously wrapped the tape onto a reel, and threaded it onto a
- deck in the production studio. We found a hilarious parody of a New
- York Telephone commercial, obviously done at the same session with
- some legitimate spots. (radio pros already know that we passed these
- things around a lot ... ask anybody with a copy of a PAMS Christmas
- party).
-
- The spot isn't anywhere near politically correct. I'm including a
- copy with this article, but I leave it to PAT's discretion whether
- this belongs in the Digest or the Archives. (but if you divert it,
- PAT, please try to summarize :-)
-
- New York Telephone Parody Commercial:
-
- New York City ... it's still a hell of a town.
-
- (music in and up. The girls sing "New York Telephone, mmm mmm mmm...")
-
- At New York Telephone, we know that getting a malicious or obscene
- phone call can really piss you off. If you get such a call, fuck it!
- Hang up immediately. In most instances, that's enough to stop the
- caller from becoming a pain in the ass.
-
- Too often, though, people unwittingly encourage the caller by talking
- back. Don't be a prick! You can't argue with a sick mind, so don't
- try!
-
- If hanging up quickly doesn't work, for shit's sake, don't panic.
- Just call our business office. You'll find the number in the front of
- your telephone directory. In persistant cases, our Annoyance Call
- Bureau takes over to try and trap the fucker. Working with the
- police, our Annoyance Call Bureau has been responsible for 844 arrests
- and 54 abortions. And defendants have learned that a 10 cent phone
- call can cost them as much as thousand dollars and jam their ass in
- prison for a year.
-
- At New York Telephone, we're in business to give you service ... and
- part of our obligation is to see to it that no mother fucker abuses
- that service! After all ... the service we give you is obscene
- enough.
-
- (Music up, the girls sing again, and out.)
-
-
- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Blush. PAT]
-
-