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I've gotten into the habit of letting my 6-year-old son answer the phone when tele-marketers call. He has a blast with it, and eventually they hang up in frustration.

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I always did my best just to waste their time. Set the phone down.. Say "he'll be right there," etc...

Another thing I do is strike up a conversation with them.. they call and I'll be like "HEY!!!! What's going on! What you been up to? You gonna be drinkin' tonight, etc.. " It all depends on my mood.

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I've gotten into the habit of letting my 6-year-old son answer the phone when tele-marketers call. He has a blast with it, and eventually they hang up in frustration.

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I always did my best just to waste their time. Set the phone down.. Say "he'll be right there," etc...

Another thing I do is strike up a conversation with them.. they call and I'll be like "HEY!!!! What's going on! What you been up to? You gonna be drinkin' tonight, etc.. " It all depends on my mood.

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That reminds me -- I was on the phone at work with my cell phone company, and they kept putting me on hold and leaving me there for unbelievably long periods of time. I was wrapping up my conversation with the CSR and asked her if she'd hold for one minute. I then left her on hold and never came back. After 10 minutes I had a co-worker pick up and let her off the hook, saying I had left. That was one of my proudest moments.

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and it's not close. Do you see why?

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"You just need to take one day at a time."

Oh, thanks a fing lot. Until you said that i didn't even know I had an option.

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In a similar vein... "Maybe that's just God's will"...

Usually used by someone who doesn't know what to say to something unfortunate, but there's few things less helpful to say than that. Oh, so God hates me? Nifty? And thanks so much for taking the time to push your religious views on me.

(Was once used by a friend to "console" my wife during a difficult period of fertility treatments... "Maybe God doesn't want you to have a child"... Uh, thanks?)

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when my kids were little (in the pretalking years) i would give telemarketer calls to them.

When I ansewr the phone and it is a telemarketer for my wife

I usually tell them that she left me for another women. If I am realy playful I can add a fake cry.

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when my kids were little (in the pretalking years) i would give telemarketer calls to them.

When I ansewr the phone and it is a telemarketer for my wife

I usually tell them that she left me for another women. If I am realy playful I can add a fake cry.

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My dad always just changes his voice real quick and says, "this is she..." which is only funny because he has a really deep voice.

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"I'm gonna give it 110%"

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Hate it. HATE it.

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(Was once used by a friend to "console" my wife during a difficult period of fertility treatments... "Maybe God doesn't want you to have a child"... Uh, thanks?)

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I'd be inclined to kill somebody who said that to my wife. Then this retard could go ask "God" himself if he is purposefully keeping my wife from conceiving.

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when my kids were little (in the pretalking years) i would give telemarketer calls to them.

When I ansewr the phone and it is a telemarketer for my wife

I usually tell them that she left me for another women. If I am realy playful I can add a fake cry.

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My dad always just changes his voice real quick and says, "this is she..." which is only funny because he has a really deep voice.

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Thats fantastic!

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"thats poker"...and its not close. thanks for reminding me mr. towne...

rj

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im a big hater of "whatever doesnt kill you makes you stronger".

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im a big hater of "whatever doesnt kill you makes you stronger".

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Yeah, try telling that to someone who has recently gone blind. Or someone who has recently had a limb amputated...

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I always act like I'm taking a crap.

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This is very good actually. I'm going to do this. Let them hear the toilet lid, courtesy flush, grunting, etc. Very effective.

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Just ask them their name and company name and have them spell it, because you are on the National Do Not call list, and they get polite and hang up real fast.

I was pissed at my wife when she put us on this list because, the way I look at it, the telemarketers had to pay for a list of active phone numbers in the past, now the government is giving them one for free. And you know some people on this list put themselves on there because they got sucked into buying something before. I'm not real sure how I feel about the list. All I know is we don't get called any less, and I think the list helps out the telemarketers.

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One glaring loophole is that if you were a customer of the company in like the past five years they are allowed to call you.

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I think charities are also allowed to call -- even if the charity itself isn't the one making the call, but has instead contracted out its fundraising to a call centre and the caller is an employee being paid commission.

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i'd smack the [censored] outta someone if that were the case. unless i had both my arms amputated, then i'd hafta try plan b.

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How about, "Let's just agree to disagree..."?

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the word "like" used in front of, like, everything.

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"thats poker"...and its not close. thanks for reminding me mr. towne...

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"that's hot"

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You should run with a better crowd. My use of "that's hot" never fails to amuse or to plant the seeds for later arousal. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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"racism"

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"Thats how God intended it to be" , worst time ever was when a kid asked a question about gravity in physics class in HS and the teacher gave that answer, i wanted to [censored] sabotage her car brakes and if she died id go to the funeral and tell her family members..."thats how God intended it to be", and throw in "at least shes in a better place now" for kicks. Then i'd piss on her casket and reason "that's how god intended it to be" because if it wasnt..i wouldnt have to pee right then....
Sorry..i [censored] hated this bitch.

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"it's not rocket science"

I was thinking about this the other day - rocket science is far from as cutting-edge as it was when this quote first became popular; it's actually pretty simple, standard technology nowadays (no offense patrick! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]). We should evolve this saying to "it's not nanotechnology" or something to that effect.

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I do nanotech research, and it aint rocket science [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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"You Go Girl"

"That Is So Last Year/Week/Spring...."

"Pink is the new Green"

"Don't Get Me Started"

"Quote Unquote" (BOTH said before the word/phrase: e.g. "The important factor regarding the oil industry's quote unquote crisis is consumer demand.")

-ptmusic

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gitterdone

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Do you see why?

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from a parent to a kid... "This is for your own good" or "Because I said so, that's why"

Big Steve [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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"Thats how God intended it to be" , worst time ever was when a kid asked a question about gravity in physics class in HS and the teacher gave that answer, i wanted to [censored] sabotage her car brakes and if she died id go to the funeral and tell her family members..."thats how God intended it to be", and throw in "at least shes in a better place now" for kicks. Then i'd piss on her casket and reason "that's how god intended it to be" because if it wasnt..i wouldnt have to pee right then....
Sorry..i [censored] hated this bitch.

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Wow, I am not a hateful person... but I think I hate her to.

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you're so money and you don't even know it.

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When people use 'literally' as an means to emphasise or exaggerate, when it's actually metaphorical.

eg 'I literally had a cow when he told me about his poker playing'

This should be a death sentence, no pardons. Or they should be made to literally do what they said they did.

Otherwise I'm well adjusted, and elsewhere appreciate the flexible nature of the English language.


Oh, and those girls that hold up a hand and do that head shake thing like on Springer, and say 'what-evah'. They need a good kicking.


PS. I know this isn't a quote as such, but needed to say it anyway.

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"Quote Unquote" (BOTH said before the word/phrase: e.g. "The important factor regarding the oil industry's quote unquote crisis is consumer demand.")
-ptmusic

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It's even more annoying when these people use their fingers to make little invisible quote marks in the air as they say the quoted word(s).

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I'm from the West Coast so I hate the word: "Hella"
I hate it when someone says, "That's tight..."
I hate it when people use the word "mad"...like "they're rollin mad deep"...or "they got mad skills."...etc.

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"No offense but..."

as if this somehow gives license to then offensd whomever you like.

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Or the football variation. "Were going to play one game at a time.", usually followed by "and give 110%." Just once, I'd like to here a football player say, "Were going to play 3 games at a time and give 93%."

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When asking someone what date it is, and they reply "August 23rd, all day."

Hearing that makes me want to lock the offender in a pet taxi ALL DAY!

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"Standard."