Tuesday morning funnies

Here’s one for you phone people: An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called – and that on the few occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady. He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his...

September 27, 2005 · 1 min · 189 words · Matt G

Friday Funnies – The Psychiatric Hotline

Hello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship. If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Please stay on the line until we can trace the call....

September 9, 2005 · 2 min · 292 words · Matt G

My Little Howto for Polycom IP500 Ringtones

First I scoured the internet for as many cool ringtones I could think of that my users would get a kick out of and play with on their lunch-hours. Note that I’m not sure of copyright on all of these, so use them at your own risk. Ringtone files must match the following criteria: – Bit Rate 64kbps – Audio Sample Size 8bit – Channels 1 (mono) – Audio Sample Rate 8 kHz...

July 30, 2005 · 2 min · 285 words · Matt G

Here’s a list of pretty annoying hold music for your IVR’s – stolen from asterisk-users :)

Hold music Annie Lennox: Waiting in Vain Eurythmics: When Tomorrow Comes Moody Blues: Go Now PSB: Saturday Night Forever Pink Floyd: Time Tom Robinson: The Frozen Man Eurythmics: Forever Rolling Stones: Time Is On My Side Tommy Tutone – 867 5309 Kim Wilde – 36580 Blondie: Hanging on the Telephone ELO: Telephone Line Empire Records – Money (that’s what I want) Pink Floyd: Money Blondie: Call Me ELO: Ma Ma Ma Belle...

July 23, 2005 · 1 min · 130 words · Matt G