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Subject:	Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:02:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Matthew Wilkins writes: <Much snippage> > -pretend that you are a modem. Try connecting at 2400 baud, 14.4, 28.8, 56k LOL! Ok, folks, 'fess up. How many of you can whistle 24? James http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/

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		Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
(...) 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)

		Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
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)

		Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
(...) 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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		Re: Telemarketers can bite my cuticle (Was: Informal WB Store Survey)
(...) 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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