denber.wbst@xerox.com (12/14/89)
We've all heard jokes about people who leave obscene phone calls on answering machines. Well, today someone left a "wrong-number" on my answering machine. I found a recording today that went "This is Mr. Fnord (name changed to protect the seriously confused). Please call me at xxx-xxxx." So I call him back and get his secretary. I tell her I got this message. She doesn't know what I'm talking about and puts me on hold. Several minutes later the conversation went like this: "Mr. Fnord didn't call you." "But I have his message right here - how would I have known to call him?" "Oh, it must have been a wrong number." "Then why did he leave a message?" "He was calling someone else." "Oh." At this point I decided to quit before we got to the old line about "Well if it was a wrong number, why did you answer the phone?". Makes you wonder. - Michel [Moderator's Note: Too bad you don't have an answering machine like Anton Rang (see two messages above). :) PT]
cramer@uunet.uu.net (Clayton Cramer) (12/28/90)
> [Moderator's Note: One example which has stuck in my mind since this > thread began was the use of BOWery 9-1000. A 'crime on the waterfront' > type movie from the 1940's (title long forgotten -- anyone remember > [...] > tavern, madame." (woman) "What? What number is this?" (man) "Boweryp > nine one thousand. You're connected with the city morgue. Your husband > is dead, madame; you'll have to come and get him, I'm afraid." PAT] The movie, of course, is not a "crime on the waterfront" movie -- it's that most blatantly of telecom movies -- "Sorry, Wrong Number"! Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!