# Oh, joy!  The telemarketers are giving us a day off, in honor or 911

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-joy-the-telemarketers-are-giving-us-a-day-off-in-honor-or-911/127801>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 10, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-joy-the-telemarketers-are-giving-us-a-day-off-in-honor-or-911/127801 "2002-09-10T14:40:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-joy-the-telemarketers-are-giving-us-a-day-off-in-honor-or-911/127801/21 "2002-09-11T16:12:47Z")

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The charities didn’t get the memo, apparently. Just got a call from a very annoying, persistent charity that’s been calling me for years. Asking to be taken off their list does no good. And the one time I _did_ have some old clothes for them, they never came to pick them up. Dimwits…

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