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- From: haljibur@coos.dartmouth.edu (Halim F. Aljibury)
- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
- Subject: Re: more phone phun
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.000325.15995@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 00:03:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.122950.4727@verifone.com>
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- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- In article <1992Dec23.122950.4727@verifone.com> rachim_t1@verifone.com writes:
- >When your phone rings, instead of answering it, "Hello?", pick up the phone and
- >make like it's YOU who's calling.
- >
- >sample:
- >your phone rings
- >pick it up and say "Hi, is Bob home?"
- >
- >or "Hi, this is Dr. John's office, I'm calling to confirm your appointment for
- >this Wednesday"
- >
- >Also, setting good messages on your answering machine can be loads of fun.
- >I recently had my message be: "Yeello (pause) Hello? Hellloooo? (tap the
- >machine) I can barely hear you, could you speak up?! (pause) Hey, listen, why
- >don't I call you back on another line, ok? sheeez, damn phone..."
- >
- >You wouldn't believe how many people kept calling back COMPLETELY fooled.
- >My mother-in-law had a fit, though.
- >
- >jest in fun
- >Rich
-
- *laugh* a friend and I actually did the first one...when a friend called, we
- picked up the phone and said "Hello, is frank there?" When the guy said no, we
- hung up on him. When he called back, he said (in a kind of tight voice) "Let me
- talk to Rob." We were just rolling around laughing...
-
- Merlin@dartmouth.edu
-