Give me the good old days when you didn't have a clue who was going to be on the other end of the phone until you starting talking with each other.?ÿ My number one reason is to chase down people who would prefer to not speak with me but I want to speak with them.?ÿ My number two reason happened again today.?ÿ My cell rings and the screen shows a number with a weird area code and then I see it says El Paso, TX.?ÿ To the best of my knowledge I do not know anyone today who lives in or near El Paso.?ÿ I'm expecting it to be the little gal who always starts out by saying, "You know, you are harder to get ahold of than the last jelly bean in the bottom of the jar....and I have learned your car warranty has expired...............................
It wasn't Miss Jelly Bean.?ÿ It was a young lady who has just purchased a house about 25 miles from where I am sitting and wants to make sure she builds a fence in the correct place.?ÿ We had a nice conversation leading to one more job on the list.?ÿ Her surname is really uncommon in this area so I doublechecked on how she pronounced it.?ÿ It turns out her husband is the nephew of another fellow with the same surname for whom I did a survey about three months ago.?ÿ One of two brothers tired of everyone mispronouncing the name so he decided to not worry about it and go with the majority.
This reminded me of the Tony Dorsett circumstance.?ÿ When he was a college football phenom he was Tony DOOR-sut but when he hit the pros he was Tony door-SETT.
Back to the issue at hand.?ÿ I would rather be curious than mislead.
I would rather be curious than mislead.
P.T. Barnum would love you! ??? ??? ????ÿ
What a quinky-dink.?ÿ My car warranty has also expired and the lady calls me everyday as a reminder.
This reminded me of the Tony Dorsett circumstance.?ÿ When he was a college football phenom he was Tony DOOR-sut but when he hit the pros he was Tony door-SETT.
Joe Theismann had the same thing happen. I had a doctor once stitch up my ear from a freak machete accident...conversation led to a story where he told me about how he went to school with Joe, but they said his name differently.
FWIW
On the iPhone, you can block any caller (number) you don't wish to receive calls from. Go into your recent calls and click the "i" then at the bottom click "Block Caller" and confirm.
@dmyhill The story here in Washington is that he started changing the pronunciation his junior year in college to make it rhyme with Heisman; came in second...Heisman doesn't rhyme with Plunkett either
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If the call appears to be coming from Meade, Syracuse, Copeland, and about a dozen other places in Kansas, I refuse the call.?ÿ Might miss a client, but, I'll never know it.
Many spam calls have a faked phone number, sometimes a legitimate number that belongs to someone else. That should be impossible and/or illegal, but it happens.
If they keep changing it, blocking will do no good and you might accidentally block one you would want to accept.
On my smart TV the incoming call will display, then the caller ID. A few times the number is the house phone number. I've never answered one of those.
I've mentioned this before, that back in our hometown there was a fellow with a quirky spelling of a surname and an equally quirky correct pronunciation of it. Everybody pronounced it the same way but that way was wrong. In the end, legend has it, said fellow got so sick of the mispronunciation that he changed, by deed pole, the spelling of his surname to match the way everybody mispronounced it. I thought that was hilarious.
?ÿstitch up my ear from a freak machete accident...
I'll buy the first round. That sounds like an interesting story.
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When is the next Beerleg.com mass gathering anyway?
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I would be the guy headed down the hall to open the door to see the Egress.
Many years ago I read a letter to Ann Landers from a minister's wife who was upset by people mispronouncing their last name.?ÿ She wanted her husband to change the name to something quite different from what it was.?ÿ Her reason was that when people attempted to pronounce the name they would say a vulgar word, unintentionally.
I've spent 50 years trying to determine what that name was.?ÿ My best guess has been a case where a "ch" is pronounced as being a "k" sound.?ÿ The composer Bach, for example,?ÿ I have seen a family name that ends with "chs".?ÿ The first letter ahead of the "c" is a "u".?ÿ Leaving off the first letter, which you may surmise on your own time, the "uchs" is supposed to sound like "yukes" but I can imagine it erroneously pronounced as "uks".
I've mentioned before how I had to approach a professor in order to be allowed to take his class and put a long "A" sound on the first letter on his name, which was Annis.?ÿ It was supposed to be "Ann-is".
By way of provenance I can verify that the reference in the snippet below is true. In about year 1995 I worked in a consultancy in Auckland, in the days of landlines and printed regional phone books, and one day I was advised to look up a certain name beginning with "I" and then look at the next name below it, and there it was:
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Honestly, I have the advantage of not getting many cold calls that are perspective clients.?ÿ
I silence the ringer and let them go to voicemail (don't reject/dismiss the call, that indicates that yours is an active number and they'll keep calling). If it's important, they'll leave a message.
