Bradford basically wrote:

i spent a lovely day at work today with some old toothless fucker <snip> it took twenty minutes to give him a seven digit number.

Pardon if I lag on my digests. Just had to reply to our directory assistance operator, 'cause I used to do that job summers while I was in college. We used to get this guy who called asking for the number of "Big Dick Liquors." When he got neither a rise nor a number out of the operator he would keep trying. "What about 'Hard Dick Liquors,' and every other permutation a dirty little mind can think up. The funny thing was that most of us would helpfully offer the listing for "Ball Liquors" (a real establishment!), but he never 'got it'. What a dope. But Bradford, for something really interesting you should consider being the zero op, where you spend an incredible percentage of your time talking to prison inmates. They've worked out a system of chirping, whistling, & blowing raspberries into the horn, which amazingly can trick a pay phone into believing they've deposited coins. When they aren't successful they drop onto the operator's line. One time I got this guy who was so carried away w/ his sound effects that he failed to dial a number. He had something like $11 of credit racked up. I just sat there listening to his antics till he finally stopped & I asked if he was done. Well I guess I'd better be done too, except to say that I enjoyed the Housemartins & once got in trouble at my conservative (religious) high school for writing "Take Marx, take Jesus, take hope" on the blackboard during Spanish class. Hasta... Amy PS: whoever devised that little church as a sig file is a clever thing. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------