*Phone Calls

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:10:22 -0700, Kyla =^. .^= wrote:
First somebody called me and aked for 'kaYla..
I replied, there's no kaYla at this # and hung up on her.

I had a call from my son-in-law a while back at 11pm. Sounded like bunch of
heavy breathing or perhaps drunk babble.

I asked him about it the next weekend and he didn't remember making the call.
He and his wife were home in bed at the time.
It turned out that their dog, a spoiled pug, had made the call.

Another time I had somebody ask why I called them when I hadn't. It turned
out that Mongo, a loud mouthed siamese, had hit a speed-dial button.

Damn pets -- they can't be trusted with technology.

It stopped it for a while, but I get three or four calls a week from
various companies wanting to remodel my house.

Joy

Hmmm, we get these recorded things, which I hate with a passion, telling
me they've been trying desparately to reach us to bla bla bla..
I listen to the message and then hit #2 to opt out of their lists, but they
sell the lists to other companies.
Do you tell them you're not 'board' with your house?
Pun totally intended G

How's Nanki-Poo?? We need an update.
I sent you an e-mail from my Comcast addy..I hope you got it.
PURRS for him and a
HUG
for you
Kyla

My scooter dog called Lee a couple of times!
"AZ Nomad" wrote in message
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:10:22 -0700, Kyla =^. .^=
wrote:
First somebody called me and aked for 'kaYla..
I replied, there's no kaYla at this # and hung up on her.

I had a call from my son-in-law a while back at 11pm. Sounded like bunch
of
heavy breathing or perhaps drunk babble.

I asked him about it the next weekend and he didn't remember making the
call.
He and his wife were home in bed at the time.
It turned out that their dog, a spoiled pug, had made the call.

Another time I had somebody ask why I called them when I hadn't. It
turned
out that Mongo, a loud mouthed siamese, had hit a speed-dial button.

Damn pets -- they can't be trusted with technology.

"jmcquown" wrote in message
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Granby wrote:
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are
starting on cell phone.

You can register your cell phone for Do Not Call the same as a land-line.
When I got here in January Mom's phone rang off the hook with
telemarketing calls. Now she gets the occasional auto-dialed call but
those are easy enough to hang up on. And in fact I've discovered if with
those auto-dialed recorded calls you can press 2 on your phone and it
removes you from being called back.

Jill


I'll have to try that. We are getting fairly constant recorded calls from a
couple of places. Like once a day.

Jo

Jo Firey wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
Granby wrote:
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are
starting on cell phone.

You can register your cell phone for Do Not Call the same as a
land-line. When I got here in January Mom's phone rang off the hook
with telemarketing calls. Now she gets the occasional auto-dialed
call but those are easy enough to hang up on. And in fact I've
discovered if with those auto-dialed recorded calls you can press 2
on your phone and it removes you from being called back.

I'll have to try that. We are getting fairly constant recorded calls
from a couple of places. Like once a day.

Jo

It doesn't work with *all* of those recorded calls but seems to with a good
number of them. I only learned about it because one day I listened to the
stupid message all the way through, intending to get to a real person and
tell them to cut it out! At the very end the recording said something like
press 1 to reach an agent now, press 2 to be removed from our list.

Jill

Kyla =^. .^= wrote:

just out of curiousity, when you put '*' in front of the subject are you
meaning "Off topic"?

The convention is usually to proceed an Off Topic post (particular one that
is the start of a thread) with [OT] instead.

All is explained in the FAQ:

http://professional-geek.com/persona...ca/rpcafaq.htm

Cheers,

Yowie

Somehow I can start on topic and end off topic without much effort. Storm
coming, cats are running amuck tonight.
"Yowie" wrote in message
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Kyla =^. .^= wrote:

just out of curiousity, when you put '*' in front of the subject are you
meaning "Off topic"?

The convention is usually to proceed an Off Topic post (particular one
that is the start of a thread) with [OT] instead.

All is explained in the FAQ:

http://professional-geek.com/persona...ca/rpcafaq.htm

Cheers,

Yowie

"jmcquown"
Jo Firey wrote:
"jmcquown"
Granby wrote:
The no call list didn't help much where I live. Now, they are
starting on cell phone.

You can register your cell phone for Do Not Call the same as a
land-line. When I got here in January Mom's phone rang off the hook
with telemarketing calls. Now she gets the occasional auto-dialed
call but those are easy enough to hang up on. And in fact I've
discovered if with those auto-dialed recorded calls you can press 2
on your phone and it removes you from being called back.

I'll have to try that. We are getting fairly constant recorded calls
from a couple of places. Like once a day.

Jo

It doesn't work with *all* of those recorded calls but seems to with a
good number of them. I only learned about it because one day I listened
to the stupid message all the way through, intending to get to a real
person and tell them to cut it out! At the very end the recording said
something like press 1 to reach an agent now, press 2 to be removed from
our list.

Jill

Yeahbut, they'll sell that list to someone else, as I have found out.
I had a Voice Mail that I finally checked on today, and it was a freakin
recording from a 'loan' company, blah blah blah..I kept hitting 7 to erase
the message while it was playing (comcats digital voice mail) but I had to
listen to the whole blasted thing before I could delete it.
Kyla

Granby wrote:
Somehow I can start on topic and end off topic without much effort.
Storm coming, cats are running amuck tonight.

That's "thread drift"; completely different from a post that is Off Topic
from the start

Jill

"Yowie" wrote in message
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Kyla =^. .^= wrote:

just out of curiousity, when you put '*' in front of the subject are
you meaning "Off topic"?

The convention is usually to proceed an Off Topic post (particular
one that is the start of a thread) with [OT] instead.

All is explained in the FAQ:

http://professional-geek.com/persona...ca/rpcafaq.htm

Cheers,

Yowie

Text messaging is a whole 'nother matter altogether.
I can see how it can be used 'usefully' for those who are hearing/speech
impaired, or otherwise impaired,
but why do teen-agers sit there and text to each other when they can just '
talk'? Geez, that makes NO sense to me at all.

It can also be really useful for folks who just rally, raelly hate to talk
on the phone

My employer supplies me with a cell phone, and they don't object to me
using it for personal calls. But they don't want us sending personal text
messages, so I've got a 2nd cell phone, one I pay for myself, that is just
for text messaging. I know it's weird, but I absolutely hate to talk on
the phone.

Dan