giza | Fun with telemarketers (Reply)

A really cool idea I saw on Slashdot...

Telemarketer: "Hi, my name is Sara, and I represent ___ mortgage company."
Me: "I don't believe your name is Sara."
Sara: "What? Er.. hmm... well.. Why don't you believe my name is Sara?"
Me: "Well, okay. I guess I didn't mean it that way. I'll believe your name is 'Sara'. But I don't believe you're a real person. I think you're a computer program."
Sara: "Huh? What? Why would you think I'm a computer program?"
Me: "Because I'm on the do-not-call list, so I can't believe a person would actually call me. You'd have to be a computer program."
Sara: (laughs .. has a place to get back on the script) "The do-not-call doesn't apply to us. So I'm not a computer program."
Me: "That's what a computer program would probably say."
Sara: "Okay, well I guess I won't waste your time tonight." (hangs up)

Maybe if I'd actually hang up my modem once in awhile, I'd get some telemarkters to play with, too. :-)