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(...) Wow, you're nice. As soon as I can detect a telemarketer, I say, "No thanks," and it's doubtful they even hear me say the end of the word "thanks" because the phone is probably already back down[1]. I do that no matter how many times they (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) But I FULLY ADVOCATE being mean to telemarketers. Abuse them until they quit. obdisclaimer: I've worked for two telemarketing firms. What a horrible, evil, soul-destroying job. When you help a telemarketer quit, you're doing them a favor. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Fun with Sacajewea [kind of long]
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(...) After the compulsory wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth that occured when the Loonie (and later the Toonie) were introduced in Canada, things settled down and they became accepted by most, and liked by many. Sound and fury, and all that. James (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I love coins. I am absolutely thrilled with the idea after using a pocketful of 2-pound coins (1) to travel the London Underground. Coins last longer than a bill, are easier to fumble through when in your pocket, and generally (IMO) look (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yah the Nickel, Dime, Quarter, and Half Dollar! ;-). I just hate that little piece of copper they give you that you have to throw in a bucket at home to use as a door stop. I have more door stops now than I have doors. Why do we need another (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Can't help with your study, but I do have one of the new coins. Fairly cool, in the newer modern-Mint-school-of-design way (more flat background surfaces, basically). Basic results from showing it to everyone on my team: it's too much like a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Wrong number fun (was RE:Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) I don't recall that. but I DO recall a rather elaborate points based game (1), posted to some newsgroup or another, that one could play with telemarketers. This: (URL) a rather watered down version with a lot of the best parts missing. I can't (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) When I went out to Portland OR last summer to trade some windshields with Steve Barile (1), we joked about that (especially since we could also talk about the clarity of the parts). (1) the real reason for the trip was to go to a week long (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Wrong number fun (was RE:Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) Was it hear or somewhere else where someone was telling about how someone started telling a telemarketer about their plan for suicide or something and caused quite a commotion? (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Wrong number fun (was RE:Informal WB Store Survey)
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(...) We have a phone line at work that for years was hooked up only to a modem. It is totally unlisted, and there is no legitimate reason for any right-number calls to come in on this line. It is, however, on our phone switch as an extra outgoing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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