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    Dan Neely
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    Reposted from another forum I frequent with the authors permission.

    Steve Yee wrote:

    I would love to know where these god-damned marketers get my name and email address from. Today - I got this email from some company who is offering free subscriptions of "American Cheerleading Magazine". Yes, he who tries to get his wife to play cheerleader ends up getting a subscription to the number one cheerleading magazine in the nation, complete with competition schedules and full of photos. Yeah. Thanks. Just what I need. It's bad enough that my son's drooling over Princess Leia in the bikini - I don't need magazines full of cheerleaders bouncing and tumbling everywhere. Anyhow - All I have to do is either go to this web page or dial a toll free number, enter this code, fill out a form, and I get this magazine full of flashing legs and pretty faces. You all know where this is going....I decide to do some fun stuff for a change. Especially since I didn't ask for the magazine. I go into the phone switch in the office where I'm at and I program my extension's caller ID to show I'm calling from the Towers Jail Facility of Maricopa County. Then I dial the number. It connects to some magazine aggregator. "Hello - SynapseConnect, can I get your subscription code?" "Sure - its" (insert code here). "Okay - it shows you get one year of American Cheerleading for free. " "Great! What do you need from me?" "Let's start with your last name" "Hornei - spelled H-O-R-N-E-I, it's pronounced horn-neigh" "Is that French?" "Yes, it is". (Yeah, I'm as french as I can get..) "Alright - first name?" "Henri, spelled H-E-N-R-I" (She gets a bit excited here) "Oh, that is very french. And is the phone number on my caller I'd display here correct?" "Yes, it is" "Great! I see it's to the tower jail.....oh. Do you work there?" "Sort of. I get paid 45 cents an hour when I'm in the mechanics garage" "......I see. Uhhh" (Long pause here) "Are you an inmate there?" "Yes. But we have mail and email priveleges here.". (Yeah, right. Sheriff Joe doesn't give crap to the prisoners here). "Oh. And what are you in for, Henri?" "I was caught babysitting my neighbor's daughter in the wrong way". "What do you mean?" "Know what an underage Lewinsky is??" What came next was shocking. I got a 2 minute stream of invectives that would make Gunny Ermey blush. Then.... "What do you have to say for yourself?" "Well, her dad is m

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      Reposted from another forum I frequent with the authors permission.

      Steve Yee wrote:

      I would love to know where these god-damned marketers get my name and email address from. Today - I got this email from some company who is offering free subscriptions of "American Cheerleading Magazine". Yes, he who tries to get his wife to play cheerleader ends up getting a subscription to the number one cheerleading magazine in the nation, complete with competition schedules and full of photos. Yeah. Thanks. Just what I need. It's bad enough that my son's drooling over Princess Leia in the bikini - I don't need magazines full of cheerleaders bouncing and tumbling everywhere. Anyhow - All I have to do is either go to this web page or dial a toll free number, enter this code, fill out a form, and I get this magazine full of flashing legs and pretty faces. You all know where this is going....I decide to do some fun stuff for a change. Especially since I didn't ask for the magazine. I go into the phone switch in the office where I'm at and I program my extension's caller ID to show I'm calling from the Towers Jail Facility of Maricopa County. Then I dial the number. It connects to some magazine aggregator. "Hello - SynapseConnect, can I get your subscription code?" "Sure - its" (insert code here). "Okay - it shows you get one year of American Cheerleading for free. " "Great! What do you need from me?" "Let's start with your last name" "Hornei - spelled H-O-R-N-E-I, it's pronounced horn-neigh" "Is that French?" "Yes, it is". (Yeah, I'm as french as I can get..) "Alright - first name?" "Henri, spelled H-E-N-R-I" (She gets a bit excited here) "Oh, that is very french. And is the phone number on my caller I'd display here correct?" "Yes, it is" "Great! I see it's to the tower jail.....oh. Do you work there?" "Sort of. I get paid 45 cents an hour when I'm in the mechanics garage" "......I see. Uhhh" (Long pause here) "Are you an inmate there?" "Yes. But we have mail and email priveleges here.". (Yeah, right. Sheriff Joe doesn't give crap to the prisoners here). "Oh. And what are you in for, Henri?" "I was caught babysitting my neighbor's daughter in the wrong way". "What do you mean?" "Know what an underage Lewinsky is??" What came next was shocking. I got a 2 minute stream of invectives that would make Gunny Ermey blush. Then.... "What do you have to say for yourself?" "Well, her dad is m

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      Yusuf
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      that was good one. :thumbsup: reminds me of web page I saw some time back. I guy decided to take things into his own hand. He heard about telemarketers conference. He did his homework and figured out where the conference was being held. He booked in the same hotel as the telemarketers were staying. at 2AM he started calling each room where telemarketer was staying. :-D

      Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]

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        Reposted from another forum I frequent with the authors permission.

        Steve Yee wrote:

        I would love to know where these god-damned marketers get my name and email address from. Today - I got this email from some company who is offering free subscriptions of "American Cheerleading Magazine". Yes, he who tries to get his wife to play cheerleader ends up getting a subscription to the number one cheerleading magazine in the nation, complete with competition schedules and full of photos. Yeah. Thanks. Just what I need. It's bad enough that my son's drooling over Princess Leia in the bikini - I don't need magazines full of cheerleaders bouncing and tumbling everywhere. Anyhow - All I have to do is either go to this web page or dial a toll free number, enter this code, fill out a form, and I get this magazine full of flashing legs and pretty faces. You all know where this is going....I decide to do some fun stuff for a change. Especially since I didn't ask for the magazine. I go into the phone switch in the office where I'm at and I program my extension's caller ID to show I'm calling from the Towers Jail Facility of Maricopa County. Then I dial the number. It connects to some magazine aggregator. "Hello - SynapseConnect, can I get your subscription code?" "Sure - its" (insert code here). "Okay - it shows you get one year of American Cheerleading for free. " "Great! What do you need from me?" "Let's start with your last name" "Hornei - spelled H-O-R-N-E-I, it's pronounced horn-neigh" "Is that French?" "Yes, it is". (Yeah, I'm as french as I can get..) "Alright - first name?" "Henri, spelled H-E-N-R-I" (She gets a bit excited here) "Oh, that is very french. And is the phone number on my caller I'd display here correct?" "Yes, it is" "Great! I see it's to the tower jail.....oh. Do you work there?" "Sort of. I get paid 45 cents an hour when I'm in the mechanics garage" "......I see. Uhhh" (Long pause here) "Are you an inmate there?" "Yes. But we have mail and email priveleges here.". (Yeah, right. Sheriff Joe doesn't give crap to the prisoners here). "Oh. And what are you in for, Henri?" "I was caught babysitting my neighbor's daughter in the wrong way". "What do you mean?" "Know what an underage Lewinsky is??" What came next was shocking. I got a 2 minute stream of invectives that would make Gunny Ermey blush. Then.... "What do you have to say for yourself?" "Well, her dad is m

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        :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Very good

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          Reposted from another forum I frequent with the authors permission.

          Steve Yee wrote:

          I would love to know where these god-damned marketers get my name and email address from. Today - I got this email from some company who is offering free subscriptions of "American Cheerleading Magazine". Yes, he who tries to get his wife to play cheerleader ends up getting a subscription to the number one cheerleading magazine in the nation, complete with competition schedules and full of photos. Yeah. Thanks. Just what I need. It's bad enough that my son's drooling over Princess Leia in the bikini - I don't need magazines full of cheerleaders bouncing and tumbling everywhere. Anyhow - All I have to do is either go to this web page or dial a toll free number, enter this code, fill out a form, and I get this magazine full of flashing legs and pretty faces. You all know where this is going....I decide to do some fun stuff for a change. Especially since I didn't ask for the magazine. I go into the phone switch in the office where I'm at and I program my extension's caller ID to show I'm calling from the Towers Jail Facility of Maricopa County. Then I dial the number. It connects to some magazine aggregator. "Hello - SynapseConnect, can I get your subscription code?" "Sure - its" (insert code here). "Okay - it shows you get one year of American Cheerleading for free. " "Great! What do you need from me?" "Let's start with your last name" "Hornei - spelled H-O-R-N-E-I, it's pronounced horn-neigh" "Is that French?" "Yes, it is". (Yeah, I'm as french as I can get..) "Alright - first name?" "Henri, spelled H-E-N-R-I" (She gets a bit excited here) "Oh, that is very french. And is the phone number on my caller I'd display here correct?" "Yes, it is" "Great! I see it's to the tower jail.....oh. Do you work there?" "Sort of. I get paid 45 cents an hour when I'm in the mechanics garage" "......I see. Uhhh" (Long pause here) "Are you an inmate there?" "Yes. But we have mail and email priveleges here.". (Yeah, right. Sheriff Joe doesn't give crap to the prisoners here). "Oh. And what are you in for, Henri?" "I was caught babysitting my neighbor's daughter in the wrong way". "What do you mean?" "Know what an underage Lewinsky is??" What came next was shocking. I got a 2 minute stream of invectives that would make Gunny Ermey blush. Then.... "What do you have to say for yourself?" "Well, her dad is m

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          Pete OHanlon
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          This[^] one's my favourite.

          "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

          As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

          My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys

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            This[^] one's my favourite.

            "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

            As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

            My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys

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            leckey 0
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            Tom Mabe actually has an entire album with items like those. There is one that is really funny--the says he's blind and didn't know he was calling at 3am. Yeah, he was calling a hotel that was full of telemarketers for a convention that night.

            Back in the blog beatch! http://CraptasticNation.blogspot.com/[^]

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