My happy bear calls telemarketers' bluff

Toronto Sun ^ | July 13, 2003 | Gary Dunford

[Squawk 8888]

This is even better than Jerry Seinfeld's approach.

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[Pyro7480]

LOL!!!!

[snopercod]

I wish I still had my Flip Wilson doll.

"Don't touch me! You don't know me that well."

[Constitution Day]

LMAO!! You've just GOT to see this.

[x1stcav]

In real life are you THE Serge A. Storms? Your outlook and Serge's on things like telemarketers are eerily similar.

[TontoKowalski]

This is a silly article.

But I want one of those Farting Santa Dolls.

[Bacon Man]

That's a hell of an idea!

[EggsAckley]

This is great! Being the big kid that I am, I confess to owning several "weird" talking toys. Even have a Boing Boing. What a great idea!

Thanks for posting this.




boing boing boing

[ElkGroveDan]

ping

[LizardQueen]

This article had me smiling but the Farting Santa really made me lose it. I've been laughing until my eyes teared up.

I want one too!

LQ

[Sunshine Sister]

Dog gone good idea.

[dd5339]

Hey Vic,

Put those batteries back into the kid's toys. We can have fun with this idea!

Cav,

Dig out that talking Mickey if you haven't taken the 12 gauge to it!

Semper Fi

[Chewbacca]

The talking Gunny Sgt R. Lee Ermey toy would be good.

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[dighton]

Thanks. It's definitely worth passing along.

[general_re]

My daughter's Sesame Street See'n'Say should come in handy - one of the lines it's supposed to say is "Zookeeper Natasha likes feeding the monkeys". Except that in Big Bird's nasally voice, it sounds exactly like "Zookeeper Natasha likes beating the monkeys". That ought to throw them off-balance...

[Catspaw]

I need a farting Santa! I need a farting Santa!

[BADROTOFINGER]

I just got a call asking me to subscribe to the NTY Sunday edition where I live in Eastern Washington. Here is how the call went.

PS (phone solicitor)-Hello, I am calling from the NYT and would like to let you know that we are going to be in your area offering the Sunday NTY for a special price of $??? (I wasnt listening to the price) for 16 weeks! Would you be interested in that great deal, sir?

ME-Uh, no, not really.

PS-Have you ever read the NYT sir?

ME-Yes.

PS-And what did you think of it?

ME-Well, extreme left wing about says it all.

PS-(Laughs) Yes sir, you are right. It is very left wing. You have a nice day, and thank you!

ME-You too, thank you for your call, and good luck!

The gal at the other end wasnt at all surprised that I thought the NYT was a left wing fishwrap brand as opposed to a newspaper, and probably agreed...JFK

[gcruse]

So this guy thinks it would be rude to hang up on a telemarketer?
Well, if it's in the telemarketer's best interest to stop talking to a
non-viable contact, then he's doing them a favor by hanging up
immediately and letting them try someone else, so that excuse doesn't
cut it.

As for wasting his own time playing with toys that talk into the phone
and giggling like a loon the whole time....quelle immature.  

Reminds me of a joke.

This guy had about thirty pigs in a pen.  He had to go to town so he
asked his friend to water the pigs for him when the afternoon got hot.
The friend agreed and stayed with the pigs while the guy went to town.

Guy comes back from town to find the pigs just fine but his friend looking
dirty and exhausted.

"What happened?  How did you get so dirty?"
"I got dirty from carrying the pigs one at a time down to the river so they
could get a drink."
"One at a time?  Holy moley.  That must have taken a long time to water
all the pigs that way."
"Well, yes it did.  But then, what's time to a pig?"

[gcruse]

So this guy thinks it would be rude to hang up on a telemarketer?
Well, if it's in the telemarketer's best interest to stop talking to a
non-viable contact, then he's doing them a favor by hanging up
immediately and letting them try someone else, so that excuse doesn't
cut it.

As for wasting his own time playing with toys that talk into the phone
and giggling like a loon the whole time....quelle immature.  

Reminds me of a joke.

This guy had about thirty pigs in a pen.  He had to go to town so he
asked his friend to water the pigs for him when the afternoon got hot.
The friend agreed and stayed with the pigs while the guy went to town.

Guy comes back from town to find the pigs just fine but his friend looking
dirty and exhausted.

"What happened?  How did you get so dirty?"
"I got dirty from carrying the pigs one at a time down to the river so they
could get a drink."
"One at a time?  Holy moley.  That must have taken a long time to water
all the pigs that way."
"Well, yes it did.  But then, what's time to a pig?"