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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2540
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: YO DEX...
Someone has to teach you how to empty your voice mail...SHEESH!!! Tried to call...can't even leave a message.
Anyway, I wanted to let you know that your buddy, John Wynn, is on the road...or maybe you already know it.
I talked with someone up at Groton Base yesterday morning at breakfast and they told me that John and Lynn
are down your way, traveling in the camper. He seems to be in good spirits and good health...THANK YOU, GOD!
But they are traveling down there...not exactly sure where...
So, that is the news of John...so far!
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
Patti, For the 200th time. When I signed up for Verizon FIOS. I requested phone service with (A) No Voice Mail (B) No call waiting (C) No frills, unessential bulls**t, Advertising intrusions or anything other that what a 1940's Bell System telephone circa 1940 came with...If the sonuvabitch rang and you were home. you answered it...if it rang and you weren't home, you didn't. That's what I have. I don't like to come home and listen to thirty minutes of phone calls telling me folks died, were in a car wreck...won $10 in the lottery...found that gas has gone up three cents in a week....Inviting me to come sit with ten other over-the-hill jerks and swill beer at a local watering hole. So I intentionally allow my cyber verbage dumpster to remain fully loaded and never blow my tanks. I don't like electric door opening secret signals unlocking key fobs....but if you buy a car you're stuck with the damn things...like it or not. If it was up to me I would wear animal skins, make myself birch bark shoes, and eat raw meat off a pointed stick... A full voicemail box is like a major toilet back-up in the world I live in....I hate voicemail and do my damndest to deny its' existence and ignore it. After so many days of a message snorkeling around my septic tank waiting room, the Magic God of Unwanted Crap flushes it.....and I include him in my annual Thanksgiving "THANK YOU's" I'm not totally convinced that all this modern technological has improved our lives....Bastards talking on cell phones or text messaging while tooling down the inter-state just below the speed of sound are not, in my estimation...a good thing. Having the expense of suveilance camera footage included in my TIC TAC purchase or folks logging in to check on your bank balance, payment habits, credit rating, card limits, shoe size....and regularity of bowel movements doesn't appear to be consistent with the intent as explained by the founders. A lot of it is like issuing night vision goggles to peeping Toms. Patti, Don't leave messages....they only lead a lonely life until they complete their sentence only to be paroled in the nearest dumpster. DEX |
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Old Salt
Posts: 419
Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Subject: Yo Lumpy...!
Didn't you read DEX's comment to you re: the voice mail...?
"When you call,and I'm not here the little Verizon phone pixie hookerwill tell you that my phone message box is full....There's a reason forthis.... I hate the damn thing...didn't want it...you spend too muchtime prying stuff out of it...."
That's his excuse. I think that it's just too much to ask a knuckle-draggin' TM to cipher out how the thing works. The thing is he's paying for it in his phone bill. He could just call his C&P Telephone and have them take it off his account.
Belay my last... looks like DEX posted while I was typing.
Edited by Park Dallis 2009-05-11 2:13 PM
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
Park Dallas, has hit the nail on the head.....If Verizon comes up with something one step up from two bean cans and a string, I'll be one of the first to sign up. I believe that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it....Who'n the hell needs scented toilet paper? Fat free refried beans? Forty seven varieties of Pepsi? Disposable razor blades that cost more than ten bucks for six? Poly composition wine bottle corks? Men's colonge that costs more than fifty bucks a bottle? I use my telephone as a convenience, not as a device that consumes unnecessary time and is a pain in the hippockets. We are a nation that has turned over personal independence to the dictates of technological advancement. I am seriously considering taping sticky notes to snapping turtles and UP'sing them to people. DEX |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
dex armstrong - 2009-05-11 12:09 PM
I'm not totally convinced that all this modern technological has improved our lives....Bastards talking on cell phones or text messaging while tooling down the inter-state just below the speed of sound are not, in my estimation...a good thing.
DEX
Which is precisely why I do not own any type of cell phone. And if I do ever get one, it will be bare-bones, emergency-use-only. Just in case the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, or I come upon someone else broke down and need to call for help.
There are enough distractions on the road nowadays, without the phone ringing every 5 minutes. And now the telemarketers are using robocallers that dial random phone numbers, so they bypass the "DO NOT CALL" list and violate the federal ban on telemarketing calls to cell phones.....
"Your auto warrantee is about to expire" .... my car is so old, they didn't have telemarketers when it's warrantee expired.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1262
Location: Va.Beach,Va. | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
I got tired of telling those "your car warrantee is about to expire"jackasses
that I don't own a car so my last conversation with them went something like this:
She:"Sir,what year is your automobile?"
Me:"1947"
She:"what is the make of your automobile?"
Me:"Henway"
She:"Oh,what's a Henway?"
Me:"About a pound and a half"
She:"WISEASS!"(click)
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
Mad Dog, you use the same Tactic that I've used. String them along and take up a bunch of their time for nothing. The calls do drastically slow down and stop.
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
Ralph, We've got sonuvabitches up here who call you about your "mortgage"...."Mister Armstrong...Our records indicate that you are paying far too much for your present mortgage. We would like the oportunity to meet with you and show you how we can reduce your monthly payments to a range of affordability you will find amazing." "I sure as hell would find it amazing since my house is paid off...Your "records" don't appear to be worth a good g--dam...Lotsa luck Bozo." Ralph...somewhere in time we shared common ancestry....MAD DOG and I think so much alike on a vast aray of subjects that we may have been issued brains with consequitive (sp?) serial numbers or were cloned from the same monkey. I HATE phone solicitation....The NO CALL LIST is a sad joke. DEX |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
Ralph, We've got sonuvabitches up here who call you about your "mortgage"...."Mister Armstrong...Our records indicate that you are paying far too much for your present mortgage. We would like the oportunity to meet with you and show you how we can reduce your monthly payments to a range of affordability you will find amazing." "I sure as hell would find it amazing since my house is paid off...Your "records" don't appear to be worth a good g--dam...Lotsa luck Bozo." Ralph...somewhere in time we shared common ancestry....MAD DOG and I think so much alike on a vast aray of subjects that we may have been issued brains with consequitive (sp?) serial numbers or were cloned from the same monkey. I HATE phone solicitation....The NO CALL LIST is a sad joke. DEX |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2540
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
I'd like to find out "how" these BOZOS get to have local phone numbers, such as here in NY where we live, they have resorted to getting local numbers and they aren't even in the State... |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2561
Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: Ralph -How can you 'string-along' a recording?
I tried just today. It was a lady's voice telling me that my credit card insterest rate is much roo high. Since I pay my credit card off every month, the interest rate doesn't concern me. I don't even know what it is.
I tried to out-talk her, but she continued to talk hrough my 'talking,' so I knew it had to be a taped message.
Cora
Edited by Corabelle 2009-05-14 10:52 AM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1262
Location: Va.Beach,Va. | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
common ancestry....MAD DOG and I think so much alike on a vast aray of subjects that we may have been issued brains with consequitive (sp?) serial numbers or were cloned from the same monkey...........Dex
I hear that President Obama has allocated 3 trillion dollars to form a commitee
to find that monkey and deposit his DNA in the same location as the nuclear
waste from Three Mile Island.He is determined to ensure that the same mistake
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 892
Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
Please! Remind me not to call Dex. A snapping turtle might just capture a precious organ? This whole string implies a "DO NOT CALL MESSAGE"! Ouch ~
I'll attempt to restrain from dialing that obnoxious number again....
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
miss lumpy bumps - 2009-05-13 4:52 PM
I'd like to find out "how" these BOZOS get to have local phone numbers, such as here in NY where we live, they have resorted to getting local numbers and they aren't even in the State...
Call-Forwarding. They get a local number, and set it up to forward calls to their real office somewhere else. Don't even need a local office with a real phone - with the current computerized switchgear, it can all be done through the phone company's central office.
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: Ralph -How can you 'string-along' a recording?
Corabelle - 2009-05-13 4:59 PM
I tried just today. It was a lady's voice telling me that my credit card insterest rate is much too high. Since I pay my credit card off every month, the interest rate doesn't concern me. I don't even know what it is.
I tried to out-talk her, but she continued to talk hrough my 'talking,' so I knew it had to be a taped message.
Cora
You have to wait until the canned sales-pitch is done. At the end of the recording, they tell you to "Press 1 to speak to an account advisor, or press 9 to be removed from our calling list" or something like that.
As soon as I recognize the call is a recording, I punch "9" rapidly about 10 times, until the call disconnects itself.
As much fun as it may be to mess with the poor shmuck in the call center, I have better things to do with my time - like sit under the mulberry trees, with a cold drink, a good book, and my dog at my feet. It was 85 here in Central California this afternoon, but only 70 on the patio under my trees.
Summer time....... and the livin' is easy.....
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
It's the robo-dialers that dial random phone numbers. They bypass the "Do Not Call" list (violation of Federal Law), and often as not call cell phones ('nother violation of Federal Law). Saw US Senator Chuck Shumer (D-NY) on the news complaining that they got him on his private/secret cell phone during a Congressional Committee hearing! And he wasn't the only one!
Another news bulletin from the Federal Trade Commission reports that enforcement action against several such companies is "emminent" (aka "REAL SOON NOW").
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
Ralph...somewhere in time we shared common ancestry....MAD DOG and I think so much alike on a vast aray of subjects that we may have been issued brains with consequitive (sp?) serial numbers or were cloned from the same monkey.
GREAT CEASER"S GHOST !!!!!!!!! Can you even begin to imagine... Dex, Mad Dog and me related? Cora couldn't take it. And I'm certain Patti would run around in circles pulling her hair out. Must have something to do with being "Swines of the Highest Order"
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: YO DEX...
dex armstrong - 2009-05-13 3:57 PM
Ralph...somewhere in time we shared common ancestry....MAD DOG and I think so much alike on a vast aray of subjects that we may have been issued brains with consequitive (sp?) serial numbers or were cloned from the same monkey.. DEX
If you accept the Biblical account as literal truth, we are all distant cousins, going back to Great-great-......Uncle Noah Zark.
Now, there's a scary thought.
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: "Do Not Call" list
I only have a cell and it is listed on the "Do Not Call" list. When I get one of those I get the company name and the persons name and them turn them in. it is a $10,000.00 fine to the company. I never get another call from them. You have to report them to make it work! I started to get spam text messages. I just made sure that the text function of my cell was discontinued and found that my cell cost was also reduced. I never used it and do not miss it at all. Why text when you can speak to the person faster. I think these phones with all the crap in them is ridiculous. I have friends who have them and they are fumbling with them all the time for stuff they don't need to do right then anyway. |
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