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From: convex!sneaky!gordon@uunet.uu.net (Gordon Burditt)
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Subject: Re: Thirty Five Years of Recorded Announcements
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Date: 19 Aug 90 07:57:52 GMT
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>Should we celebrate the anniversary?  More than a few people have
>gotten rich from telephone recorded announcements, that's for sure!

If the anniversary of the invention of 900 and 976 numbers is to be
celebrated, let it be celebrated in the same way as the Hinsdale
central office fire, the first use of an atomic bomb in warfare, the
invention of the electric chair, the legalization of the COCOT, the
millionth "accidental" switching of someone's long-distance carrier
without their knowledge, and the coming-to-a-slum-near-you "piss test"
pay phones -- for when the drug dealers discover Radio Shack tone
generators.

			Gordon L. Burditt
			sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon