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A dial-a-joke (or a joke line) is a telephone service that users can call to listen to previously recorded jokes. Jokes are recorded on an automatic answering machine. In the past, many jokes were recorded on cassette tape and then played sequentially, each caller hearing the next joke on the tape. Modern touch tone phones allow callers to ...
Telephone (American English and Canadian English), [1] or Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English), is an internationally popular children's game in which messages are whispered from person to person and then the original and final messages are compared. [2] This sequential modification of information is called transmission chaining in the ...
After being unable to reach Sachs on his home telephone, Brand and his co-host of the week, fellow Radio 2 DJ Jonathan Ross, left Sachs four voice messages on his answering machine. In the first message, Brand joked about Fawlty Towers and the fact that both he and Sachs had appeared in The Bill, but was interrupted by Ross shouting out "he ...
Absolutely. A recent survey found a quarter of people aged 18 to 34 never answer the phone - respondents say they ignore the ringing, respond via text or search the number online if they don't ...
Thanks to the decision of most cell phone carriers to include useless instructions and built in delays, checking voicemail is an infuriating and costly process; but there's an easy way to get free ...
Call Me (Deee-Lite song) Call Me (Skyy song) Call Me Back Again. Call Me Maybe. Call Me Mr. Telephone (Answering Service) Call Me, Beep Me! The Call (Backstreet Boys song) Callin' Baton Rouge. Chantilly Lace (song)
The Phone Message. " The Phone Message " is the ninth episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld, and the fourth of the show's second season. [1] The episode concerns protagonist Jerry Seinfeld dating a woman who likes a commercial for cotton Dockers he dislikes. Meanwhile, his friend George Costanza leaves an angry message on the answering ...
Previous telephones required the user to operate a separate switch to connect either the voice or the bell. With the new kind, the user was less likely to leave the phone "off the hook". In phones connected to magneto exchanges, the bell, induction coil, battery, and magneto were in a separate bell box called a "ringer box." In phones connected ...