Subject: | Re: OT and Personal
| Date: | Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:43:14 -0600
| From: | "Mike Speegle" <mikespeegle@netscape.net>
| Newsgroups: | sci.space.history
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In news:Kevin Willoughby <kevin@scispace.org.invalid> typed:
> Mike Speegle said:
> > One *great* trick I learned is to say "Wait, uh, can you excuse
> > me, there's someone at the door. Hold on." And set the phone
> > down. IQ's are then inversely proportional to the amount of time
> > before the phone starts squealing at you. I've gone 5 minutes on 2
> > occasions. <tee hee>
>
> I learned how to read by reading MAD magazine. One of the first issues
> I read had exactly this technique. The graphic showed a phone off the
> hook and a kitchen blackboard listing the length of time before
> various telemarketers (did that word exist back then?) would finally
> hang up.
Then that's probably where the guy I heard it from got it. Nice to
know that good ideas have staying power, regardless of the source. ;-)
--
Mike
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