🚀 go-pugleaf

One of the latest eposodes of the Schmidt-Schwartz saga produced:

>>Do you blame the phone company for telemarketers?
>
>    Yes, and it worked. They responded with caller ID, which 
>I'm willing to pay for. Now I don't have to answer calls unless
>they're from people I know. Cool, huh?

<grin> David, please go ahead and *answer* those calls so that you'll
impose more cost onto the caller.  Or screen them with an answering
machine.  The phone companies get no revenue from an unanswered call;
their costs, unfortunately, get passed on the rest of us poor blokes.
Bother.

(As aluminum siding season gets underway, I've been tempted to keep one
of my daughter's toys near the telephone so that when the phone rings at
6:45 pm and I hear that telltale *pause* after I pick it up, the
telemarketer gets presented with, "Hewwo -- can Elmo hewp you?")

Pete
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