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Topic: Way off topic

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Alan Swank
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Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 1:03:16 PM

I'm working from the home office today and have now received at least a dozen "election calls." The last one was actually a live person asking me to vote for a particular candidate. I told him I'm registered on the do not call list and wanted to know how I could quit getting these calls. He said "get a chain saw and cut down your telephone pole."

I'll be glad when Wednesday morning comes.

Pete Chouteau
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 1:10:08 PM

Yes, interesting little caveat in the do not call list is that political solicitations are exempt from do not call lists, nor do they have to remove your name from their list if you so request it done.

Doc Bobcat
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 1:39:29 PM

I've decided to vote against every one who called me and told me to vote for them.

L.C.
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 2:46:52 PM

Doc Bobcat wrote:

I've decided to vote against every one who called me and told me to vote for them.

I remember back in the 70's hearing about Candidates "telemarketing", claiming to be for their opponent, but calling at odd hours, being rude, etc. I wonder if this is still done?

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

UpSan Bobcat
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 5:30:01 PM

It makes me glad I do not have a land line telephone.

oucs 1986
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 5:37:29 PM

L.C. wrote:

Doc Bobcat wrote:

I've decided to vote against every one who called me and told me to vote for them.

I remember back in the 70's hearing about Candidates "telemarketing", claiming to be for their opponent, but calling at odd hours, being rude, etc. I wonder if this is still done?

This youtube video put me in the same mindset, L.C....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKFAiMbm1Fc&feature=player_embedded

I can't imagine any political group espousing the "non-exercise of power" as a demonstration of "power".

It made me seriously wonder if this weren't in the "dirty tricks" toolkit.

-john

Go Bobcats!

Ryan Carey
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 5:46:53 PM

UpSan Bobcat wrote:

It makes me glad I do not have a land line telephone.

Don't say that too loud, my wife has gotten 3 calls on her cell in the last two days.

Ryan M. Carey
BBA 2001

Valley Cat
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 7:37:27 PM

Added to the Ballot in Ohio last minute is a petition to complain to Jim Schaus about the future Non-Conference Schedule and the football teams not beating teams badly enough.

Sorry couldn't resist. I figure every post on this board one way or another ends up being about either of those two topics. Just trying to save everybody time.

Bobcat Grad 86
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 8:26:40 PM

For those of you in Athens, be careful when parking tomorrow during voting!

Pataskala
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 8:52:15 PM

Valley Cat wrote:

They're Issues 1 and 2.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

Pataskala
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 8:55:20 PM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

Congress always takes care of their own. I'd at least like to see the law changed so that they have to stop calling if you tell them to not call again. During the '08 primaries we were getting about a call a day from the same candidate (won't tell you who; her husband used to be president).

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

Pataskala
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 8:56:32 PM

Doc Bobcat wrote:

I've decided to vote against every one who called me and told me to vote for them.

So you're going to vote against everybody?

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

Doc Bobcat
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/1/2010 9:58:58 PM

Pataskala wrote:

Doc Bobcat wrote:

I've decided to vote against every one who called me and told me to vote for them.

So you're going to vote against everybody?

No.....just the ones that called me before 8 am in the morning.

Football Jim
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/3/2010 1:33:15 AM

I have a friend who loves these calls. He abuses them for as long as they stay on the line. Not polite I know, but hilarious to hear the crap he dishes out to them.

Hanging in there!

GO BOBCATS!

Bobcatbob
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/3/2010 8:42:16 AM

I prefer to think of election season as an opportunity. I never take calls on the landline unless I know who it is - but now they all know that and use my cell. Hence, solicitors and pollsters assure me that my landline is still working and the Privacy Manager is functioning. It'll be at least six more months of guessing now.

L.C.
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RE: Way off topic

Posted: 11/3/2010 7:06:58 PM

Football Jim wrote:

I have a friend who loves these calls. He abuses them for as long as they stay on the line. Not polite I know, but hilarious to hear the crap he dishes out to them.

The meanest thing you can do to a telemarketer is to stay on the line and waste their time. It actually helps them if you hang up quickly. I always thought the ideal solution for dealing with telemarketers would be to invent a box that would keep asking questions. Whenever there was silence on the other end, it could ask questions like "Tell me more about your product" or "Why should I buy today?", or perhaps make statements like "I'm not really sure what I should do". It could just keep those up until the telemarketer figured out he was talking to a machine.

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

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