Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: MCMAHON%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (McMahon,Brian D) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Machine Messages Message-ID: <11878@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 19:07:28 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 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 628, Message 8 of 14 In TELECOM Digest V10 #624, Sean Malloy writes: >I fell in love with an answering machine message from a recent 'Shoe' >comic strip, and adapted it for my machine. Shoe had an even better one a few moons ago. The phone rings on the Perfesser's desk, and picks up with "Hello, this is Perfesser Fishhawk. No one can find the phone right now..." To appreciate this one, you'd have to know what the Perfesser's desk looks like. Or mine. I *know* there's a desk here somewhere, because something must be holding up all these printouts. "The paperless office" -- the BIG lie! Brian McMahon Grinnell College Computer Services Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA Voice: +1 515 269 4901 Fax: +1 515 269 4936