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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 294734" data-attributes="member: 203">Holy Hamster Spit this seems like a rerun of the 'joke police' thread from a few weeks back!&nbsp; Blech!&nbsp; Let's not get into the whole 'who thinks what is funny' thing again.I love beating up on telemarketers (in a verbal sort of way) and any pranks you play on them is fair game to me.TB - those two you quoted were pure 99.9999% fine Comedy Gold!I haven't seen or even heard of Crank Yankers before but if its got Super Dave Osboure in it I'd love to check it out.&nbsp; Have to try that Kazaa search for those. (although the puppet thing sounds a little silly).Here in London a local FM station used to do this thing where when a telemarketer would call the station (or anyone at the station) they would put the person on hold.&nbsp; They would come back every 5 minutes or so to the telemarketer saying that they were ready to hear all about the deal then put them on hold agin (these parts were broadcast).&nbsp; They had one guy on hold for over 45 minutes one time (most would be on hold for 10-25 minutes).&nbsp; The DJ&nbsp; reasoned that if the telemarketer was stuck on hold they couldn'y bother the audience.Another 'prank' call was to call convience stores and have a caller try and guess how many times the DJ could get the clerk to say 'hello' - but the DJ was only allowed to say 'hello'.&nbsp; The highest I ever heard was 19 times.Really these are harmless - I would have to see the show to really say if they were doing harmless stuff or mean and vindictive stuff (which is very possible with this kind of prank)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 294734, member: 203"] Holy Hamster Spit this seems like a rerun of the 'joke police' thread from a few weeks back! Blech! Let's not get into the whole 'who thinks what is funny' thing again. I love beating up on telemarketers (in a verbal sort of way) and any pranks you play on them is fair game to me. TB - those two you quoted were pure 99.9999% fine Comedy Gold! I haven't seen or even heard of Crank Yankers before but if its got Super Dave Osboure in it I'd love to check it out. Have to try that Kazaa search for those. (although the puppet thing sounds a little silly). Here in London a local FM station used to do this thing where when a telemarketer would call the station (or anyone at the station) they would put the person on hold. They would come back every 5 minutes or so to the telemarketer saying that they were ready to hear all about the deal then put them on hold agin (these parts were broadcast). They had one guy on hold for over 45 minutes one time (most would be on hold for 10-25 minutes). The DJ reasoned that if the telemarketer was stuck on hold they couldn'y bother the audience. Another 'prank' call was to call convience stores and have a caller try and guess how many times the DJ could get the clerk to say 'hello' - but the DJ was only allowed to say 'hello'. The highest I ever heard was 19 times. Really these are harmless - I would have to see the show to really say if they were doing harmless stuff or mean and vindictive stuff (which is very possible with this kind of prank) [/QUOTE]

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