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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