What's the Message on your Answering Machine?

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Hello
This is Olivia
I am unavailable by cell phone at this time
please leave a message
and i will get back to you
shortly
goodbye

Currently it is plain vanilla. I used to have a recording of our siamese cat meowing loudly a few times followed by, "sorry, we can't get to the phone right now, but if you leave a message with Sam, (the cat) she'll let us know you called."

I don't know. Check with your telephone system's technical staff.

"This is (phone #). You have 45 seconds to leave a message."

Had to say that part about the time because people were always getting cut off mid-sentence, as the machine isn't adjustable (for amount of time it will record, both my outgoing & others' incoming messages).

In college I had "upscale" phone/answering machine that allowed for expressing oneself at length. Created a few quirky greetings with obscure references/quotations and/or background music.

It's something like, "This is NeantHumain's cell phone. Please leave a message." I don't call myself, so I don't hear it, and it was literally years ago that I recorded it.

DeaconBlues: you missed my 7 of 9 poll. I'll assume your answer is a resounding yes.

A few years ago when I was single with a roommate I had a message in the style of a monty python "female" (man doing old fuddy dutty lady). That didn't go over too well with the roommate so I had to remove it.



Now I just say my name an "please leave a message"

Last edited by Mixtli on 16 Oct 2008, 5:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Makes me remember a couple me and my friends did a while ago.

Hello? Oh, hi, how are you? ... yeah... yeah ... uh huh. right, yep. Um, you might want to leave a message afte the beep though.

My dad never liked it and always fell for it

THAT'S ALOTTA NUTS!! !! !

My husband insisted on recording the message because he said I sounded too much like a robot.

At one time I had the following message on my machine "You have reached Starfleet headquarters. Currently all of our starships are on missions, but if you would like to leave your name, number, planet of origin and how many Klingons are attacking you, we would be pleased to send a ship out as soon as we can. Thank you for choosing Starfleet!".

Mostly I just wanted to see if people really listened to messages at all, or ignored them as they prepared to say their important piece of information. Most people did ignore my message, but one young fellow had to leave the following "I have obviously gotten the wrong number. However, I have to say, that is the coolest message I have every heard!"

Another I have used is "Hello caller, you are on the air!". I don't get many messages for some reason when I put that on my machine ...

I currently have an automated message. Until about 8 years ago, though, I had a recording of myself singing a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way." Around Xmas I alternated this with an imitation of Jacob Marley's ghost calling the caller "Ebeneeeezer Scroooooge!" and warning him/her not to neglect to leave a message. Some people liked those, but others passionately hated them. My parents acted as if creating silly messages was a crime.

My message on my work voice mail is "if you really want to get in touch with me, please send me an email", followed by my work email address.

These make me angry! I fall for it too!
My OGM used to have my name on it; then I got even more paranoid. Now I just have "Please leave a message." People who know me know my voice, as it is pretty nasal and distinctive.

"You have reached <me> at <telephone number>. Please leave a message after the tone."

When I still had a cell phone: Hi, you again? Leave a message or try not to reach me when I switched the thing off!