Had a bit of fun tonight.  About two months ago we switched our daily
delivery of the AAS newspaper to weekend ONLY service.  The papers were
piling up, unread, just after our newborn son arrived.  I hated just
taking the paper out of the plastic shell and dumping it directly
into the recycling.  So, we switched our service over (maintaining the
weekend paper which got read more often).  We've had AAS delivery for
over 4.5 years here, so obviously I was expecting this...

Starting yesterday (12/27) we started getting calls from them.  Thank
goodness for our Caller*ID service, we were able to screen the calls and
avoid the annoying people...  

Here's the log ...

< Wed Dec 27 18:58:32  (512) 445-3453          American States           Hangup
< Thu Dec 28 18:45:53  (512) 445-3453          American States           Hangup

FYI --
 "Hangup" indicates the answering machine picked up, but no message was left...
 Yea, I have some software that interfaces with the Rochelle Caller*ID box
 to our computer...

< Thu Dec 28 20:19:05  (512) 445-3453          American States           0:22

Then I figured, I would have a little fun, since this was the second time in
a two hour period (interrupting our quiet evening watching video taped movies)
and the call when something like this...

[ring ...] [ring ...]

[picking up the phone]

Me: "I don't want to switch back to daily delivery..."

[silence]

Me: "Hello?"

[silence]

AAS: [in a perplexed voice] "Hi, this is Melanie from AAS, you must get ...
     uhhhh, lots of calls ..."

Me: "Yes, and don't ever call back."  [click]

I think that was so much fun!

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I thought it was the Austin American MISTAKESMAN

In article <daisies-2801961056450...@dialup-86.austin.io.com>,

I personally have never tried using scissors and glue to do spelling and
grammar checking, but I'll bet you're right about this. ;-);-);-)

Cheers,
   -- Lyn

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Lyn Pierce                      "Empathy is the key to persuasion.  Know your
e-mail: tum...@cs.utexas.edu     adversary's mind before you try to change it."

  Well, here's a bit re: the types who are in the noosepaper/bird cage
liner bidness.

  Here in Richmond, VA, the local papers built a huge new facility for
color printing, got a top-of--the-line Japanese color press and
merrily started to produce the paper. It stalled quite quickly since
the press only had manuals in Japanese. That set 'em back.

  Bring back the linotype!
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