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... When a telemarketer says it, they often pronounce it ber, which calls for me to... "If you were going out somewhere to have a drink would you say you're going to a ber?" Whereupon they sometimes hang up.
I have a lot of fun with them. When they ask me "How are you?" I talk for a while about petty things that have gotten on my nerves for the last few months. I don't give them a chance to talk. They always hang up on me, and then I feel so hurt.
I have a lot of fun with them. When they ask me "How are you?" I talk for a while about petty things that have gotten on my nerves for the last few months. I don't give them a chance to talk. They always hang up on me, and then I feel so hurt.
My brother has sometimes used the same tactic.
When the fairly obvious telemarketer asks, "How are you?", my brother responds by saying something along the lines of...
My rheumatiz is actin' up again, and I am constipated somethin' fierce. My bunions is also real painful, and when I opened my mail and saw my 'lectric bill, I pert near had me a stroke. The apple trees has got some real bad caterpillar problems, and I think that the dog needs to go to the Vet about his gas problems. That dog is stinkin' up the house so bad you wouldn't believe it, sonny. And, my '59 Rambler is starting to stall-out a lot. There's more, and I made a list yesterday of all the things that are botherin' me, so if you will just hold on for a little while until I can find my list, I will read it to you.
Each time that he has done this, he has heard the call being disconnected without any further comment from the party who phoned him.
In today's mail, I received one of those Valpak envelopes containing coupons and promotional materials for local businesses.
One of the inserts is from a company that calls itself Atticare, and it includes a coupon for a reduced price on a complete attic clean-up.
However, the insert also contains this message:
Our company specialized in: Attic Clean Up Crawl Space Cleaning Rodent Proofing Air Duct Repair
Okay...so they used to specialize in those tasks, but what are their current specialties?
"His Twitter feed was chalk full of racist comments by Boston fans."
"I'll never be complaisant about x-rays."
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I saw that on Facebook recently. 
