#848 – Ahoy
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Like email spam, getting pestered by telemarketers is something that doesn’t really happen to me any more. They thankfully didn’t migrate over to my cell phone number. Now that we only use the landline for our internet connection they just magically vanished. I don’t miss them.
Tags: bathroom, phone, shower
I’ve been there…just this morning as a matter of fact. I know firsthand that your body can operate with only half a brain, until your lungs start filling with water or something like that.
There’s a bath spout, where on earth is the tub, or the curtain for that matter.
Regardless, biff must have had awesome hearing…before he pumped his brain full of water, did it come out the other end?
i’ve answered the remote instead of my phone once… they look a lot alike ><
You definitely chose the best caption!
Biff… oh biff……
If that was anywhere else hed get water all over the floor.
What we do at our house is wait for the answering machine to pick up, if they leave a message it’s usually someone we want to talk to, unless it’s someone trying to get our vote of course…or donations…
Caller ID would be a great help I suppose, but I don’t want to pay for it and I’m not in control of our phoneline.
They recently passed the most marvelous law in Ontario (Or maybe it’s a federal law… Not quite sure). You can have your number added to a no-call list, and you will never again be annoyed by telemarketers. Even better, there’s one hell of a penalty for violating this law. Best damn thing ever.
The Duck Has Spoken.
I think this happened in a Tintin comic once to Captain Haddock. The Red Sea Sharks, I think.
Landline? Dialup?? Seems rather 20th century to me . . . isn’t it difficult uploading your work thru dialup? We got rid of our landline years ago, when we retired and I realized how many junk calls we rec’d daily. Hubby & I each have our own cellphone plans; neither of us has to listen on a machine to each other’s messages from folks we don’t want to listen to . . . third-best decision we made (first was to marry; second was to retire soon after).
Haven’t had a land line in over 5 years. Still got telemarketers on my cell a few times. That stopped after I filed complaints with the FCC.
@Andrea – DSL
We went on a do not call list, which was awesome, but I hate those promotional SMS’ you get from phone companies. The number of times I’ve had my phone confiscated because of those…
Telemarketers…. And yet, I still have to glance at the caller ID to find out if it’s someone I need to answer the phone for. “National Survey”… no thanks. “Mom work”… How many days until payday? Ok, I’ll see what she wants.
Voice mail is one of my best friends, call screening ftw.
My Mom, rest her soul, put a greeting on her answering machine that starts out in Comanche. You would be suprised how many live telemarketers get thrown off their groove by something like that. One guy called twice in one day so a co-worker could hear it. She said that it means something like, “Greetings! Who’s trying to talk to me on this thing? Can you understand me?” Then she says in English, “Tell me what you want.” It really works for cutting down the number of calls from the boiler room operations.
I don’t want a ‘Do Not Call’ or an answering machine. I want to be able to redirect the output of my shower nozzle to the earpiece of the telemarker’s headset.
I tend to take icy showers…
They need to install a button on everyone’s telephones that allows the user to remotely shock telemarketers. Shock therapy for persistant buggers.
Telemarketers are only trying to earn a buck…Cell phone and wireless have eliminated them from my day. Biff obviously isn’t too alert when he first gets up so the obvious solution is power washing his face. Bet his brows are drooping afterward…
Oh, those telemarketers. Some foriegn lady keeps calling my phone. I’m not racist, but I can’t understand a word she says. I want to hang up, but I’m not rude. I would buzz her or spray her though the phone if I could though xD
I did that once, it was early in the morning, still had that sleep showers don’t wake you out of, phone rang and I reached for the jet stream, thought I hit the talk button and then, AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHH
hahaha, poor biff, he reminds me of me in the morning, i frequently walk directly into walls or closed doors and answer any questions directed at me with a completely nonsensical and unrelated response… poor guy
What’s more fun is staying on the line long enough to get their mailing address… then send them a bill for the use of your leased phone line. $10/min rounded up to the next full minute, $20/min if they call after 6pm.
With the Caller ID functions that my phone and TV are equipped with, we no longer get bothered by telemarketers
Had someones fax machine calling my number every 5 minutes once with what must have been set to 99 retries. If I had the ability I would have sent them back 1000 solid black pages after a note to stop calling.
I’m not sure why, but Biff’s pose in this one just struck me as odd.
Then I read the caption, and I was rolling in laughter for a good couple of minutes.
I used to hear the phone ring everywhere I went. I decided to tell this to my parents when we were in the car. We stopped at a red light and from the garage across the street, we all heard a phone ring. Much laughter was had. xD