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- From: jks2x@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jason K. Schechner)
- Subject: Re: more phone phun
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.081232.23910@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Dec23.122950.4727@verifone.com> <1992Dec25.000325.15995@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 08:12:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.000325.15995@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> haljibur@coos.dartmouth.edu (Halim F. Aljibury) writes:
- >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..."
-
- This reminds me of something a friend of mine pulled several
- years ago. We were sitting in his dorm room when the phone rang. He
- picked it up and said "Martian Embasy...... Oh...... Hi Dad". The
- rest of us were rolling on the floor.
-
- -Jason
- --
- "I sneak in my own house... it's 4 in the morning... I've had too much to
- drink... said I was out with the boys... I sneak in my bedroom... slip
- into bed... I know if I wake her, I'll wake up.... DEAD!"
- -Dave Mustaine
-