Comments on: #458 - Beep

By: Anther

Anther — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:55:29 +0000

@amy: People will say “You’ve reached 867-5309″ instead of their name because they don’t want to give out their name to someone who doesn’t already know it. Someone who might file it away for later use. It’s much the same thing as not putting your name on your mailbox. They state the number, rather than giving no information at all, because they want people to still be able to realize if they’ve gotten a wrong number. You’d think this would only make sense if you’ve got an unlisted number, but it’s nearly impossible to look up a name from a number in a phone book (unless you have a computerized version and can apply a text search to it). Perhaps this is paranoia, but it’s often wise to reveal as little as possible.

By: Heinrich

Heinrich — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:29:21 +0000

@reynard - (: nice. that seems like something i or my dad would do. i had a friend in high school who’d start talking in japanese whenever a telemarketer called.

By: Reynard

Reynard — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:54:34 +0000

Back in Ye Olden Dayes before voicemail, my mom worked for a law firm in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the other law firms that she frequently called was, at that time, also one of the largest; and whenever a new receptionist answered with the obligatory long list of partners, she would say, “I’m sorry, your two minutes are up. Please deposit another 25 cents…”

By: nemo

nemo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:40 +0000

im the 1 that leaves the annoyingly long voicemails!!! i left a 10 minute voice mail 4 my friend jordyn once. she LOVED me after that!!!

By: Silfedac

Silfedac — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:41:47 +0000

Two things:

1: That reminds me of my eighth grade science teacher. All he did was lecture, read from the book, or assign us to read the from the book. And he had this really low monotone voice, and that, combined with tha fact that he handed out notes after the lecture, led his class to be used mainly for naps. We were pretty pissed at the end of the year, though. All of the terrible and mean teachers retired and were replaced by younger, nicer models. Lucky seventh graders.

2: While I am capable of talking for long periods of time face-to-face, the longest I have ever talked on a phone is under five minutes. I get to the point faster with assistance from technology, I guess.

The Silf has .

By: DGexe

DGexe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:09:31 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever listened to the annoyingly long messages…

No, wait! On my thirteenth birthday or so, one of my aunts left a five minute “Happy Birthday” message once. Mein Gott, that wasn’t fun to listen to. @@;

But one of my biggest peeves about voicemails is when someone leaves one, and they leave their name and number; and then I call the number and either…
1. it doesn’t work or…
2. so-and-so seems to not live there or has never been in the place where that number leads to.
o_o;

The DGKupo’s Typed, ’cause you can’t -speak- posts in a text box

By: speearr

speearr — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:01:17 +0000

Haha! Made me laugh uncontrollably… I now have a sudden urge to chuck out my mobile…

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:53:05 +0000

I don’t know how this crazy technology works, so I am not get.

By: Reg

Reg — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:17:07 +0000

I wonder what kind of people are calling Biff.

By: Seraphine

Seraphine — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:06:44 +0000

Press me to start recoding.
Go away when you are finished.