# The Telemarketer Speaks. I Respond. **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [December 16, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861 "2000-12-16T04:12:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 10
### Author: ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/181 "2004-01-15T16:10:15Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Because everybody needs a giant Z. > > 😕 You obviously don’t have webdings enabled. It’s a bunch of flowers. ---
### Author: ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/182 "2004-01-15T17:07:34Z")
Y’all are welcome! 😃 C’mon, I’ve gotta take _some_ credit for the resurrection. 😛 ---
### Author: ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/183 "2004-01-15T17:18:18Z")
Oooooh. You want proof, do ya? Fine: > [@](#): > > 01-08-2004, 07:43 AM > Nutty Bunny > Member Join Date: Nov 1999 > Posts: 738 > > \*\*Oneyogini, > > Here you go, [The telemarketer speaks, I respond](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=974729#post974729) > > Classic.\*\* ---
### Author: ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/184 "2004-01-15T17:21:50Z")
Oh. Resurrected on 12/13/03 and 1/4/03? A day late and a dollar short, as usual. I’ll have my desk cleaned out by the end of the day. Here’s my ID card and my keys to the executive washroom. ---
### Author: ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/185 "2004-01-15T20:22:23Z")
Y’know, **Cervaise** could have just given Claudia [Bun-Bun’s](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031014) [number](http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031016)… ---
### Author: ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/186 "2004-01-15T21:14:31Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > You obviously don’t have webdings enabled. It’s a bunch of flowers. Nah, I’m just using a real OS. One which has nothing to do with Microsoft. 😛 ---
### Author: ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/187 "2004-01-15T22:20:47Z")
\ ***IT LIVES! IT LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!** “NRRRGGNNGGHH!” --stagger stagger–\* ---
### Author: ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri) #### Post date: [January 15, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/188 "2004-01-15T22:48:49Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > \ ***IT LIVES! IT LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!** > > “NRRRGGNNGGHH!” --stagger stagger–\* It’s an immortal thread, **Cervaise**. And IMO deservedly so. ---
### Author: ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf) #### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/189 "2004-01-16T01:12:16Z")
> [@Gadfly](#): > > _bestows a “Rant of the Year” ribbon on the OP_ Rant of the year? That OP deserves a **Rant of the New Millennium** award! Ah, it’s so nice to see this thread reappear so that all may appreciate it’s wonder anew, sort of like Halley’s comet. Except that it comes back slightly more often than that. ---
### Author: ![Southerner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Southerner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southerner) #### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/190 "2004-01-16T20:17:31Z")
Thanks to those responsible for bumping this thread back to the top. I have been lurking around the SDMB for about 2 years and have never seen this thread before. Eat your heart out Dennis Miller. ---
### Author: ![herownself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8baadc/32.png) [@herownself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herownself) #### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/191 "2004-01-16T21:45:35Z")
Just so **Gremlyn** and the rest of y’all know: the claim on **Cervaise** ’s hand in marriage, as well as custody of his, erm, genetic matter, has already been resolved. 🆒 ---
### Author: ![coop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@coop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coop) #### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/192 "2004-04-07T14:45:21Z")
I have just spent roughly 4 hours jumping from post to post and ended up with this one. I must add my applause to the already overwhelming rounds that **Cervaise** has received and bump this back to the top. You are BRILLIANT!!! Remind me never to be a jerk in your presence… ---
### Author: ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/193 "2004-12-10T01:59:11Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > As long as there are telemarketers, this thread will never die. > > I bow down to you, eternal thread. Here’s a worrying thought. Perhaps Claudia VonL posts on the SDMB because she is in fact the most ‘intelligent’ telemarketer… ---
### Author: ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/194 "2004-12-10T06:00:08Z")
She posted exactly 8 times in all, all of which were 4 years ago as of this month. This is one of the most legendary threads ever and therefore deserving of the occasional bump, but you may want to look at the dates first before you do so. The idiot isn’t here to argue with you anymore, as much fun as that might be, so picking a fight with her again is futile. Although if we’re lucky some other telemarketing idiot will rise to the occasion. 🙂 ---
### Author: ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/195 "2004-12-10T06:31:19Z")
This thread is FOUR DAMN YEARS OLD??? Holy crap, but I’ve been around here a long time. I remember when this was started. I need to go get a life. ---
### Author: ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/196 "2004-12-10T07:26:55Z")
I tried that once. It’s really not all it’s cracked up to be. 😃 ---
### Author: ![Oilcan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Oilcan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oilcan) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/197 "2004-12-10T08:40:37Z")
Form 9.9 Content 9.7 Conviction 9.2 Tremendous effort. Entertaining and erudite, but ultimately wasted. She is (like Pound’s “man of inchoate thought”) not conscious and her employers are without conscience. In a short lifetime, it takes too long to load a cannon for every amoeba. ---
### Author: ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/198 "2004-12-10T18:46:02Z")
I heard on NPR this morning that an individual received a threatening letter from a telemarketer stating that the telemarketer knows where the individual lives and that she better watch out and be more considerate to telemarketers. Can you imagine that? But the “individual” had not placed her name on the Do Not Call List, which is just plain stupid, not that this would prevent all such calls, but certainly eliminates 90% of them. ---
### Author: ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/199 "2004-12-10T18:53:32Z")
**Cervaise** , since I didn’t get a chance before let me pipe in now that this is one of the masterpieces to be found here. Classic. ---
### Author: ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427) #### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-telemarketer-speaks-i-respond/45861/200 "2004-12-10T18:55:30Z")
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