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I like to have fun with the outgoing message on my telephone's answering machine, and have done so since my first one
Please allow me to give my two favourites, followed by a question for any of you who have done so also.
1. On there now. You call and get my answering machine, which says first, in an answering machine sonorous voice, "The answering machine is off."
After about 5 or 6 seconds, a softer voice says, "Nah. Just kidding." 5 or seconds after that comes the beep.
2. My all-time favourite from many years ago. My son Mark helped me to record it.
With a very long extension cord, I put the answering machine out in front of my house, right on the curb, with Mark instructed and at the controls.
I put my Norton Commando on the street immediately adjacent to the answering machine, and after giving Mark a silent signal to start recording the outgoing message, I kick started the Norton and gave a bit too much throttle so it really "roared" into life.
I then took it at full throttle and full throat through the gears for about a hundred yards, whereupon Mark, as instructed, stopped recording and let it beep.
When a caller got my answering machine, what he heard was one hellishly loud motorcycle snarling away.
No further information or message. Perhaps it required a bit of a poet to get the message, but I don't care. I got it.
p.s. I wish i still had that tape recording. Perhaps I do, in some long-lost box.
Have any of you done a madman outgoing message that you'd like to share?
My nephew had his voice recorded saying "Hello? Hello? ..." about 10 times. The amount of people that hung up thinking it was a faulty line was beyond counting.
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination" - Mark Twain
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 08:41 - Oct 19 by whoflungdung
Any man with a Norton Commando is alright with me
Better still , A Triton
We had a motor cycle industry the envy of the world Tone, then became complacent
Rest is history
Sadly, my friend, I am one with no motorcycles at all now. Knees and hips vetoed any more riding.
p.s. At one time or another, I had a '72 Commando [purchased new in 1972, and my first British bike], a 75 850, and a '60-something Norton Electra [really a Matchless with a Norton engine], as well as a BSA Star, a '67 Bonneville, and a '69 Bonnie [the last three restored by me], and another '72 Norton partially restored by me and finished by my eldest.
It would result in a massive stroke if I tried to decide which was my favourite. Which were my six favourites, for that matter.
I look at their photographs sometimes. Sad isn't it?
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 10:36 - Oct 19 by STID2017
My nephew had his voice recorded saying "Hello? Hello? ..." about 10 times. The amount of people that hung up thinking it was a faulty line was beyond counting.
If you wish, you may tell your nephew that Davillin was murderously envious upon hearing that one!
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 19:20 - Oct 19 by Flashberryjack
I can't understand why anyone would switch the answer phone on if they didn't want to receive messages ..........is it just me that think thats odd
Perhaps it appears odd because you aren't in tune with the owner.
In my case, my family and friends know that all they have to do is to laugh, then wait for the silliness to end, and at the inevitable "beep," leave their message. Unwanted callers, mystified, just hang up, as intended.
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 20:47 - Oct 19 by Davillin
Perhaps it appears odd because you aren't in tune with the owner.
In my case, my family and friends know that all they have to do is to laugh, then wait for the silliness to end, and at the inevitable "beep," leave their message. Unwanted callers, mystified, just hang up, as intended.
It works.
How do you know they're unwanted callers if they don't leave a message ?
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 21:03 - Oct 19 by Flashberryjack
How do you know they're unwanted callers if they don't leave a message ?
Exactly. It could be Ricky from Windows just trying to help you repair the computer you haven't got or Sue telling you that you've won $10,000 dollars and if you just give your checking details ....
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination" - Mark Twain
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 07:13 - Oct 20 by STID2017
Exactly. It could be Ricky from Windows just trying to help you repair the computer you haven't got or Sue telling you that you've won $10,000 dollars and if you just give your checking details ....
I had a bloke phone up asking me if I had ever worked in a noisy environment for more than two years. I kept asking him to repeat things because my hearing isn't very good for about ten minutes before he got pissed off and hung up.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 18:41 - Oct 20 by Highjack
I had a bloke phone up asking me if I had ever worked in a noisy environment for more than two years. I kept asking him to repeat things because my hearing isn't very good for about ten minutes before he got pissed off and hung up.
A woman called me and asked to speak with the head of the household. [My voice cannot be mistaken for a woman's.]
I answered, "There is no 'head of the household here.' We're all equal."
I waited for a response, but hearing none, I hung up.
I could have called my dog over, said, "Here, bitch, it's for you," and put the receiver near her ear, but it didn't occur to me until I had hung up.
Outgoing message on your telephone's answering machcine on 18:41 - Oct 20 by Highjack
I had a bloke phone up asking me if I had ever worked in a noisy environment for more than two years. I kept asking him to repeat things because my hearing isn't very good for about ten minutes before he got pissed off and hung up.
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