Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Isaac Rabinovitch Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Phrase Message-ID: <11469@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 29 Aug 90 05:43:08 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: amdcad!netcom!ergo@ames.arc.nasa.gov Organization: UESPA Lines: 35 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 605, Message 7 of 10 In <11408@accuvax.nwu.edu> psrc@mtunq.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes: >At the office, I always answer with the name of the company and my >name. It has just the right effect on wrong number callers; if >they're expecting to reach someone at the Labs, they ask if I know how >I can reach someone (and I can usually transfer them); if not, they >apologize and hang up. Lucky you. Mine just hang up. I really do wonder what's going on at that motel.... But I'm reminded of a joke. Once a guy was manning the desk at some installation called Military Air Reconnaisance Support (or something like that), when the phone rang. He pick up the receiver and said, "MARS, Sergeant Wolowitz speaking." A moment of silence, and a voice at the other end said, "Jeesh, I *know* I didn't dial long distance!" It might even be true. I mean who would *invent* those jokes they publish in {Reader's Digest}, huh? ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch atina!pyramid!apple!netcom!ergo Silicon Valley, CA uunet!mimsy!ames!claris!netcom!ergo Disclaimer: I am what I am, and that's all what I am! [Moderator's Note: I heard AT&T was going to start a new program called "Reach Out Outer Space" but they abandoned it when they experienced difficulty getting billing information back on a timely basis. :) PAT]