[Jeff Chandler]

...you are supposed to blow a whistle in the handset to hurt the caller's ears.

The telemarketer is just some schmuck trying to earn a living. Try instead the seven magic words "Please take my name off your list."

[Jeff Gordon]

Try instead the seven magic words "Please take my name off your list."

I have been doing that for over a year. They used be polite, say, of course, verify my number and give me a number to call if I wanted back on their list.

Now I get short, a snide "Okay" and even hang ups.

[HAL9000]

Try instead the seven magic words "Please take my name off your list."

I've tried it. It doesn't work.

[nycgal]

Try instead the seven magic words "Please take my name off your list."

And just how does that stop the taped sales pitches?

[beachn4fun]

The telemarketer is just some schmuck trying to earn a living. Try instead the seven magic words "Please take my name off your list." AGREED!!!

[meowmeow]

The telemarketer is just some schmuck trying to earn a living. Try instead the seven magic words "Please take my name off your list."

Schmuck being the key word. There are other ways to make a living other than professionally annoying people in their homes. Maybe if everyone went to war - took a few moments out of their day to verbally abuse every telemarketer who calls them, then eventually no one would apply for the job any more.

We ditched our land line a couple years ago so it is not a problem at our house.

[TontoKowalski]

The telemarketer is just some schmuck trying to earn a living.

So are crack dealers. People who do telemarketing for a living are demon spawn, belched up from the bowels of hell. They are the enemy.