Posted on 11/12/2001 2:38:29 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Both the LA times and the SD Union would call at dinner time and on weekends, including Sundays. So annoying. I tell them that I don't own a bird and hang up.
While it is fun to blast callers from slime rags like the "Left Angeles Times," the poor schmoes that call are only hired help.
A MUCH more effective technique for PERMANENTLY getting rid of unwanted telephone solicitors is something that I learned right here on Free Republic (where else?) - from:
Nine Words That Stop Telemarketers Cold
Posted on 05/15/2001 10:19:12 PDT by Buffalo Bob
I don't like to admit this now, but I used to be a telemarketer tormentor. Perhaps you are, too. When one of these guys or gals calls us at home, pitching yet another new credit card deal or long distance phone service, we do our best to make their lives living hell. We have the vain hope that by making a flip remark and quickly hanging up, telemarketers will leave us alone. But the calls just seem to keep on coming.Thank you, Buffalo Bob!However, in the last year I have learned a technique that stops 99% of telemarketers dead in their tracks. The best part is that you don't have to be mean and you don't get return calls.
Here's the simple trick. Next time you get one of these telemarketing calls, politely interrupt the person making the pitch and say this sentence: "Please put me on your do not call list."
I learned about this line from a lawyer and it works like a charm. I am now given instant respect in almost every call when a telemarketer hears this line. They stop their pitch immediately and begin explaining how they'll honor my request. I don't say anything more and just hang up the phone. In all but one case, I never hear from the companies again. My family has noticed a big drop off in incoming telemarketing phone calls since we all started using those nine little words...
I don't listen to Hugh Hewitt.
Too bad. At least please tell me that you ALSO do not read the Los Angeles Times, OK? ;o)
(If you are going to miss out on the Cipro, as it were, at least stay away from the anthrax!)
I may just have to borrow your "fish wrap" line.. maybe I'll get lucky and they'll hang up on me.
A better idea to PERMANENTLY stop persistent telemarketers, see my post #62:
"Please put me on your do not call list."
RE: Post #54 Yeah, that's a question I've always had, too. Anyone????
See my post #60
Did YOU create it?No, I did not. Yes, it's very nice. I'm glad you like it, Ron.
You find the COOLEST pictures!!!
Have you posted this on the USO Canteen thread? Snow Bunny just found out that her husband's family on Rockaway (where the plane crashed today) are ALL SAFE. Praise God.
Has anyone heard about the family of NYFD's Mike Moran, who ALSO live on Rockaway?
As for the Ciphro for anthrax, I don't believe in national innoculations.
I was just funnin' wit ya...
Left Angeles Times = anthraxYou are RIGHT, though, about the rest.
Hugh Hewitt = Cipro
Indeed!
Has anyone heard about the family of NYFD's Mike Moran, who ALSO live on Rockaway?
I haven't. Sorry.
As for the lefty/communist L.A. Times, I stopped reading their toilet paper newspaper when they started calling Randy Weaver, from the Ruby Ridge, Idaho incident, a separtist. Weaver just wanted to be left alone and what the FBI did was wrong.
Shame, shame, shame. You boys are digging yourselves into a hole from which you will not soon be extracted. Be aware that Mr. Rosenberg sees himself as untouchable and above it all, buffered by his own arrogance and cynicism. Not so. What he, and apparently you as publishers and executives, have failed to realize is that we are in a new day and a new time. Go look up "paradigm shift." Now watch your circulation numbers.
Actually, one would have thought that cynicism would have worn itself out during the Clinton years, when parody and reality overlapped one another and the Emperor or Empty Phrases regularly appeared to give yet another 'pep talk' ("I did not have sex with that woman....") and reporters such as Rosenberg tried to cover such tripe with some semblance of seriousness. At any rate, I have many reasons to be thankful for not living in California. Obviously, I can add one more to my list. That would be the ill-conceived rantings of Howard Rosenberg.
My $.02 delivered via email. Thanks for the e-mail addresses and link to the whole article.
I just hope our fellow Americans are as disgusted with these media attack dogs as we are.
Funny line. Thanks. I may use that sometime.
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