 | | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | (...) Nope. IT NEVER GOES UP THE CHAIN. The poor telemarketer is working for some schlock company hired to do the actual calls, not the company they say they're calling for. Furthermore, the phone number list is given to (rather than collected by) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey) —Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) My favorite one has to be 'Tell me if this sounds like a phone hanging up.' *click* And another one I like is: Them: 'Is this David Courtney' (which when I answer, it isn't) Me: 'As far as you're concerned, this is. No, we're not interested.' (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey) —Matthew Wilkins
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| | | | (...) their (...) One of my hobbies is toying with people who mistakenly call my number. (Oddly enough, after several years my phone only rarely is rung by telemarketers!) Some of the best I've found are: -pick up a conversation with the person in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey) —James Brown
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| | | | In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Matthew Wilkins writes: <Much snippage> (...) LOL! Ok, folks, 'fess up. How many of you can whistle 24? James (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) If you hum a few bars, maybe.. Seriously, I can't even whistle 300 baud. Although I had a roomie that could whistle 120. Remember 120 baud??? TI "portable" TTY's with thermal paper printers?? (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey) —David C. Pyatt
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| | | | | Used to do 2400 all the time... poor man's null modem... pick up the phone and whistle a answer carrier while the two computers listen for a carrier... :) Dave (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey) —Matthew Wilkins
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| | | | (...) Heh heh heh... I used to mess with my high school's tardiness information system by calling it up and whistling 2400 to it... it would try to answer, but they'd set the timeout to 'null' due to the vagaries of having to connect remotely via (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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