Short stuff

[magid]

I just got a phone call. Mechanical voice says something about a car warranty, press 1 for a human sales bot, press 2 to have the warranty converted (ok, I'm paraphrasing). I was just curious enough to press 1, and wait through many ringie-dingies. Male voice answers, "Hello, can I have your car make and model?" I ask him if he really thinks a '97 Corolla is likely to still have a warranty on it. Then he hung up on me. I wonder just what the scam would have been.

I'm thinking of going to the Book as Art exhibit at BC's McMullen Museum of Art some time.

Do "palm" and "pom" (-egranate) sound the same to you?

Best license plate, over at Porter Square:
MUGGLS

Best sentence from a word problem today: "Jupiter and Melbourne are 89 miles apart." Which had me thinking that NASA would be kinda cranky at those Aussies.
Alas, it is much less interesting with context: Florida does have two municipalities with these names.

For those who love the Bard and a certain Saturday morning cartoon: a slightly revised Hamlet.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Those phone calls have been making the rounds quite a lot.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

palm and pom sound exactly the same if said quickly....
you can hear the L in palm if its said slowly....

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

ps. and the hamlet re write is hysterical

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

yeah, we've gotten a ton of them. I even got one at work.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Those phone calls--I regularly get voicemails on my cell phone that are very much like that--something to do with my car, but since it's a robocall and recorded voice is oblivious to the fact that a live human being has not answered the phone, I only ever get to hear the end of whatever spiel the mechanical voice is delivering.

As you know, I don't own a car, and have not owned one for several years. Also suspicious is that they are the only people who call my cell phone, whom I have not given my cell phone number to (aside from the occasional, obviously wrong number calls). I really, really wonder where they got my number from, because I'm pretty selective about who I give the number to.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

palm and pom do not usually sound the same.

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

So have I. I have also on occasion considered pressing 1, and asking where's my car. Because I wish I knew.