I was listening to a Weird Al song about prank calls and realized you can’t really do them anymore now. Also it was funny that he mentioned dialing 7 digit numbers instead of 10
frank rizzo needs to eat did you think of frank rizzo?
Damn if that wasn’t a resurrection of the most forgotten memory.
Hello ramble81, I am calling to check if your refrigerator is running… It is? Oh my goodness you better run faster and catch it!
my phone has been on silent mode since 2012
People get really upset that I don’t check my phone often and keep it on do not disturb…
They can just keep on being upset. Their reaction kind of reinforces why I have the damn thing mostly disabled from its primary function anyway.
primary function
I thought we were talking about voice calls here.
Because of my job I have to answer unknown numbers. My God is it ever irritating
Same here internet comrade. Gotta answer every call because my number gets passed around. At least my work pays my phone bill.
Yes, I’m looking for an “exten dedwaranty” is there an “exten dedwaranty” here?
The natural evolution of prank calls is rickroll links.
Speaking of, did you know that there’s a Chrome extension that turns random links into rickrolls?
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rickroll-extension/ljkcmgibdnmdjdfpbggohpophnkiajfmOr, if you’re a firefox user, maybe:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rickrollifyI haven’t tried either of them, but I think the concept is neat. I’m a fan of doing a little self-pranking now and then.
I miss The Jerky Boys…
Wit that silly little sauce ya got there I got it all up on my nuts.
I see someone has never worked in telecom
Or a food delivery place
We just called businesses instead, during lunch time at school, since they don’t block unknown numbers. We were starting on algebra and they showed us how to calculate the radius the area etc. So to us it was the funniest thing to call a pizza place and order a 4-2x(12π) sized pizza or something like that. That and calling completely unrelated businesses and ordering a pizza also
As someone who managed a ridiculously busy pizza place. Fuck you from the bottom of my heart. I’m convinced that job took years off my life from stress and the constant prank calls totally fucked up production.
Really though you were just a kid and couldn’t have known. But I cussed some kids out in ways they’d never heard.
I later worked at McDonald’s, and I understand and I am sorry
Can I get uhhhh boneless pizza
Yeah yo mama was boneless for years then I added my bone to her hair pie.
Imma just leave this here: prankcast.com
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RIP Jerky Boys
Al mentions 7 digits and not 10 because back in our day you had to pay long distance charges if you dialed a number outside of your area code. Therefore only the 7 digits were required because no one was dialing 1-xxx to get to another area code and have charges show up on their parents bill and then have to explain who you were calling and why.
My younger brother and me used to call prostitutes and pretend to be clients. Not very proud, but to 13 year old me it was hilarious.
In the US *67 still works, but people hardly answer unknown numbers anymore. It’s telemarketer’s fault
Who has voicemail? Lulz
One day you’ll grow up big and strong.
When I was a kid, we would spell out “dirty words” in people’s phone numbers and call saying we were from the “Telephone Number Decency League”. We’d say the naughty word thier number could spell and encourage them to call the phone company to ask for a new phone number.
Love it. We used soundboards. The Schwarzenegger one was a blast. You get them paying attention with the lines from kindergarten cop then start going wild on them with lines from predator, etc. My personal favorite was “I hope you left enough room for my fist, because I’m gonna ram it into your stomach!” One memorable woman tried to save Arnold’s soul with gospel music. I think she enjoyed the whole thing.
Who is your daddy, and what does he do.
I used soundboards with my friends. My favorite was Betty Grovenstein, she was a sex hotline worker with a nasally New Englander accent.
Hahaha, I would have loved to listen in on those. Arnold quotes are a favorite language a la ‘Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra’ in this house.
