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Good/Funny Answering Machine/Voicemail/Answerphone Messages
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Best one from one of my friends (Henry):
"Hey this is Henry's Mom, he can't come to the phone right now. But please call back, 'cuz it's free! Holla!"
"Hey this is Henry's Mom, he can't come to the phone right now. But please call back, 'cuz it's free! Holla!"
A few of my favourites...
"As you can see, we're not at home. So leave a message at the sound of the tone. If you're a burglar we're not gone at all. We're cleaning our shotguns and screening your call."
"Greetings, you have reached the Sixth Sense Detective Agency. We know who you are and what you want, so at the sound of the tone, just hang up."
"Hi, we are probably at home we are just screening our call to avoid someone we don't like, leave a message and if we don't call back it was you!"
"As you can see, we're not at home. So leave a message at the sound of the tone. If you're a burglar we're not gone at all. We're cleaning our shotguns and screening your call."
"Greetings, you have reached the Sixth Sense Detective Agency. We know who you are and what you want, so at the sound of the tone, just hang up."
"Hi, we are probably at home we are just screening our call to avoid someone we don't like, leave a message and if we don't call back it was you!"
patrick0brien, you kinda sound like jim carrey. my friends like their voicemails to be them answering the phone, kinda tricks people.
patrick0brien said:
i accidently made one go backwards, and then listened to both backwards, pretty funny. maybe backwards talk would make a funny voicemail.
count chocula said:
-count chocula
Ironically enough - that was the effect I was after on the first one - completely whacked out, though it's a better recording.
Haha, yes! I heard the actual version of that song recently while walking around Boston and the only think I knew it as was George Costanza's answering machine song - my friends thought I was nuts!treblah said:The first thing I thought of. George Costanza's answering machine message.
"To speak, or not to speak: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler to leave a message at the tone
Or to take arms against a sea of answering machines
And by opposing end them? To dial: to speak;
No more; thus answering machines do make fools of us all."
- an English major friend of mine...
Whether 'tis nobler to leave a message at the tone
Or to take arms against a sea of answering machines
And by opposing end them? To dial: to speak;
No more; thus answering machines do make fools of us all."
- an English major friend of mine...
I once had words of the day with definitions as my message. It lasted for about 3 weeks till I got sick of it.
Then there is this little gem...
http://tmbw.net/wiki/index.php/Dial-A-Song
Then there is this little gem...
http://tmbw.net/wiki/index.php/Dial-A-Song
I know someone who is just amazing at creating rhymes for answering machines (they were just like Hallmark cards), but they were so good that strangers were calling her house repeatedly trying to listen to the message and write it down. She hasn't had a clever message since.
Before I found my current GF and was understandably much more bitter and grumpy than I am now, all I had was "Speak at the beep."
These days, my current message is "Hello, thanks for calling, not here, leave message, etc etc etc" in French. Sure does screw with telemarketers and people calling me for the first time.
And then my last French professor called me shortly after I graduated and left a message in kind.
These days, my current message is "Hello, thanks for calling, not here, leave message, etc etc etc" in French. Sure does screw with telemarketers and people calling me for the first time.
And then my last French professor called me shortly after I graduated and left a message in kind.
treblah said:That's an actual song?!? Do you know who it is by?
After some quick research, I've discovered it's the theme song to Greatest American Hero, entitled "Believe it or Not" by Mike Post and Stephen Geyet
Lyrics:
Look at whats happened to me,
I cant believe it myself.
Suddenly Im up on top of the world,
It shouldve been somebody else.
Believe it or not, Im walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not its just me.
Its like a light of a new day,
It came from out of the blue.
Breaking me out of the spell I was in,
Making all of my wishes come true.
Believe it or not, Im walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be? Believe it or not its just me.
You can definately see where George got it from!
JurgenWigg said:
Really good 80's TV show which is now available on DVD and a song that went to number one, but I digress.
I end up talking to a lot of answering machines in my job and for some reason little kids on the message really annoy me. Not sure why, though.
JurgenWigg said:
That was one of the funniest George Castanza moments of all time, right up there with the T-bone nickname fight.
my old message, b/c I was tired of voicemails was stolen from the David Foster Wallace novel Infinite Jest.
Generally, this allowed me to not have to listen to pointless voicmail, as only people who had an actual purpose to their call would sit through something as obnoxious as the above. Worked well till I went to using my personal cell phone as my business number