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18 Mar 2007, 9:57 am

"You have reached the house of the 9CatMom. My cats and I can't come to the phone right now, but we'll take a message and get back to you." (Message concludes with a loud Siamese meow instead of a beep.)



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18 Mar 2007, 10:15 am

9CatMom wrote:
"You have reached the house of the 9CatMom. My cats and I can't come to the phone right now, but we'll take a message and get back to you." (Message concludes with a loud Siamese meow instead of a beep.)
Does the caller then have to be rushed to the hospital after being overcome by the cuteness of it all? How many cases of diabetes are you responsible for? :wink:



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18 Mar 2007, 10:27 am

I have a very mundane outgoing message:

"Hi, this is _____. Sorry I can't come to the phone right now. Please leave a message and I'll call you back as soon as I can. Thank you for calling."

But I have, in the background, an instrumental riff from the Front Line Assembly song "Plasticity". (Before that, it was from Front 242's "Crushed").

If I had a cat, I'd be tempted to use one a friend of mine (who has cats) once used. The outgoing message began with the sound of a cat's meow, followed by "Hi, this is _____, and I've been teaching the cat to answer the phone. And while he's gotten the hang of it, I can't get him to take messages. So until I get that sorted out, you'll have to leave one on the machine." :lol:


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18 Mar 2007, 11:01 am

A robot does our answering machine. But here's my message on my cell phone:

"Hey, this is Heather! Here comes the beep. Hopefully you know what to do with it by now. *Beeeeeeeeeeep*

I got that line from some movie, but I don't remember what. :P



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18 Mar 2007, 11:02 am

hello you know what do do, if you dont leave a message after the mother-fing beep. f-you!
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18 Mar 2007, 2:19 pm

calandale wrote:
werbert wrote:
911, then ask for the police.

But you have to tell them that you are hiding the bodies of seven dead hitchhikers in your attic, or else they won't play the message. :wink:


I tried, and all I heard was, "hang up emo kid." I wonder when you changed the message.


yeah, and when i tried... they just told me to repeat myself in a slower more sultry voice... wtf? what gives, werbert?


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18 Mar 2007, 2:54 pm

calandale, they obviously did not like your dancing.

Sedaka, you accidentally called 9111, which is the after-hours emergency line. They only help with sexy emergencies. And their sirens sound a lot like Barry White.



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18 Mar 2007, 2:59 pm

werbert wrote:
you accidentally called 9111, which is the after-hours emergency line. They only help with sexy emergencies.
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18 Mar 2007, 5:03 pm

werbert wrote:
calandale, they obviously did not like your dancing.

Sedaka, you accidentally called 9111, which is the after-hours emergency line. They only help with sexy emergencies. And their sirens sound a lot like Barry White.


oh... in that case... do you happen to know that the minutely rate for that phone call would have been? (don't want any shockers when teh bill comes in)


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18 Mar 2007, 5:59 pm

I used to have

... he's gone to Queensland droving and we don't know where he are ..... leave a message .... we'll send it on spec.

(you probably have to be an Aussie to get it).

CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW
A.B. (Banjo) Paterson

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just "on spec", addressed as follows: "Clancy, of The Overflow".

And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
(And I think the same was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar)
'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
"Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are."


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18 Mar 2007, 6:05 pm

I guess this really wouldn't work for a home phone, but a few years ago I had one that went like this:

Hello?
*car horn*
*crashing sound*



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18 Mar 2007, 6:41 pm

Hello' you have reached ~ , if this was not your intention then go suck eggs you moron. If it was your intention, awwww go suck eggs ayway.


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