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Subject: Re: [OM] Hypocrites are us - OFFTOPIC
From: "Wiliam Wagenaar" <wiliam@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:41:18 +0100
OK Jan,

Your answering machine topped us all!

LOL

Wiliam

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Verzonden: woensdag 19 november 2008 19:28
> Aan: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Onderwerp: Re: [OM] Hypocrites are us - OFFTOPIC
> 
> 
> > From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I am not quite as tolerant of marketers as you,
> > and so in many a marketing database there are now records 
> of a 90-year 
> > old guy with 17 children under age 5 ;-)
> 
> Scroll by if you've heard this telephone survey story from me 
> already...
> 
> In a former life, I travelled a lot and had a fancy answering 
> machine  
> that could be remotely played back with a little gizmo with buttons  
> that you pressed to the microphone of a phone handset. It 
> looked sorta  
> like a remote control with a suction cup on the back. So you could  
> call your answering machine and use this device, which emitted a  
> series of tones, to play back your messages. I didn't use it much,  
> unless I was going to be gone for a week or more. If you forgot the  
> device, you could also use a touch-tone phone to get messages.
> 
> One time after a weekend away, I came home to see the light on the  
> answering machine blinking furiously. The incoming message 
> tape, a 90- 
> minute cassette, was fully wound. "Hmmm... must have been a busy  
> weekend," I thought as I re-wound the tape, not really 
> looking forward  
> to listening to 45 minutes of messages.
> 
> So I started playing the messages. My mom. (Call her back.) A  
> potential client. (Made appropriate notes in my journal.) A 
> ski buddy.  
> (Call him back.)
> 
> Then, I heard an automated survey system. The recorded voice 
> explained  
> the survey, yada, yada, yada, then it came to the first question.
> 
> "If you have any children in your household, please press one. BEEP!"
> 
> Now as slick as my answering machine was, it wasn't really all that  
> clever, and it's not too good at telling it's master's remote 
> control  
> from an automated survey beeper, so it responded with "BEEP!"
> 
> The survey continued with, "If you have more than one child in your  
> household, please press one. BEEP!" to which my machine 
> responded with  
> "BEEP!" then "If you have more than two children in your household,  
> please press one. BEEP!" and so on...
> 
> This quickly lost its entertainment value, so I 
> fast-forwarded to the  
> end of the tape, and heard, "If you have more than twelve thousand,  
> three hundred and ninety six children in your household, 
> please press  
> one. BEEP!"
> 
> I sure would have liked to have seen those survey results.
> 
> 
> :::: People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who  
> are doing it. -- George Bernard Shaw
> :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AQ25-27>
> 
> 
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