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From: jbaltz@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman)
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Subject: Re: Answering Machine Messages (The Thread That Wouldn't Die)
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>"You know what this is, and you know what to do, so do it at the
>beep."

Uh oh. Creative answering machine messages were what we spent our
copious free time doing at Columbia :-)

Our message (in my suite) for a while was me, in my best bass, saying:

"SPEAK!"  (I think that's pretty much to the point)

For those Talmudic scholars out there:

"Hello, this is the law offices of Hillel and Shammai. Please leave
your name, number and brief message at the beep. These are the words
of Hillel.  Shammai says, leave your message first, and then your name
and number, but both are the words of the living God."

(Hillel and Shammai were Rabbis who almost always disagreed.)

DISCLAIMER: This isn't Columbia. This is me. Columbia is them.


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