Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!ames!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: davef@brspyr1.brs.com (Dave Fiske) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unusual Recorded Messages Message-ID: Date: 11 Jul 89 14:53:18 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 232, message 5 of 12 In article , telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: > Talk about specialization. Callers in the Chicago area can now listen to > a recorded message from 'Dial-A-Gay-Atheist'. .... > If you know of unusual or different recorded announcements in your community, > please send them along to the Digest. We used to have one locally called "Dial A Poet", but it disappeared from the directory a couple years ago. One of my friends called it once, and said it was really depressing. This leads me to wonder whether maybe it changed to "Dial A Sober Thought", which IS in our directory [(518)456-3492]. We also have "Dial A Bird" [(518)439-8080], which has been around for several years. One time we left a phone message for a particularly stuffy co-worker, and wrote down the "Dial A Bird" number. This person was very officious, and, as it happened, had a visitor with him when he came back to his desk and found the message. "Oh, excuse me, I have to return this call", he said, like he was expecting it to be someone asking for his help in ending the Cold War. Then, as it turned out, he got this recording about yellow-bellied sapsuckers. The guy was so embarrassed, he turned beet red. It was great. -- "MY SPACE ALIEN HUBBY DUMPED ME Dave Fiske (davef@brspyr1.BRS.COM) FOR A YOUNGER WOMAN, SOBS WIFE" Home: David_A_Fiske@cup.portal.com Headline from Weekly World News CIS: 75415,163 GEnie: davef