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Joe,
JM> I love how quick they hang up when I answer, in an authoritative
JM> voice, "Lt Mackey speaking". Silence. I repeat that and "click"
JM> they're gone. I have the power to get telemarketers to hang up on me!
JM> :)
Rank has its privileges, sir.
JM> A co-worker said he wished he could do that and I said merely answer
JM> with officer/sergeant so-and-so.
If it was with Trade Wars 2002, it'd be "Fleet Admiral".
JM> In the late '90s I worked one winter for a survey company. We
JM> weren't selling anything, but asking about products and services,
JM> sometimes businesses.
I worked for a survey firm many years ago.
JM> I got a fella one time who was drinking at the time and the more we
JM> talked the more he drank and he was pretty sloshed when we finally
JM> finished. I could hear the sounds of ice cubes put in yet another
JM> glass, his pouring whatever, sipping, etc.
As W.C. Fields noted "Inflation has gone up over a dollar a quart",
and "Someone left the cork out of my lunch".
Daryl
... If it WALKS out of your refrigerator, LET IT GO!!
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