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Author Topic: What does your voicemail say? Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-25-2004 07:59 PM                     I'm pretty sure most of you have a basic, possibly professional voicemail on your home/cell phone. But I know that there are others like me, that dont care what others think about the professionalism of something like a voicemail. Its not like its for a business, its my cell phone. Here is my new one.. quote: Hey, I didn't answer the phone because I am trying to avoid a phone call. So, leave me a message, and I'll call you back. If I dont call you back, then guess what, it was you that I was trying to avoid...Yeah..oh well. Bye. I realize that, cell phones have caller id, and I could just not answer the call I am avoiding, but people dont realize that when they hear my message.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-25-2004 08:30 PM                  Some I occasionally use: "Hello. I'm not home. Or, I can't come to the phone. Or, I'm not alone. Please leave a message at the tone." "Hello. I'm sorry I'm not available to accept your call right now. Please leave your number and I'll get back to you just as soon as I damn well please. Thank You!" " Hi! You have reached 976-PHIL. Your phone number will be charged $25.00 for this call. Thank You!" >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-25-2004 09:24 PM                     One year at christmas I put a recording of Alister Sims "Are there no prisons, are there no workhouses....." At new years I put on " Our new years resolution is that we are changing our circle of friends at the moment so if we don't get back to you well......." boy did we get a lot of hangups  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-25-2004 09:36 PM                     I have the short and direct "I'm away from the phone, leave a message" quip. For fun, I had one outgoing message that simply said "Bingo!" It was funny to hear the dumbstruck pauses from callers ahead of their messages.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 07-25-2004 09:43 PM                     For a while my voicemail was a song. "Soulglo" from Coming to America.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-25-2004 09:51 PM                        The current machine (my roommate's) uses a synthesized voice that cannot be changed. But my machine answers in Japanese with a woman's voice, or my own out-going message which says "Speak."  |  IP: Logged Ryan Luby Film Handler Posts: 70 From: Minneapolis, Minnesota Registered: Jun 2004 posted 07-25-2004 11:14 PM                     My current voicemail carries out a 35 second conversation with the caller before suggesting that they leave a message at the beep.  |  IP: Logged Robert L. Fischer Expert Film Handler Posts: 145 From: Montreal, Quebec Registered: May 2004 posted 07-25-2004 11:19 PM                    Hey, it's Robert. Leave me a message, or, uh, leave me alone. Either way, I don't give a damn. *as quoted by Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, with the requisite name change*  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-25-2004 11:22 PM                        My work voicemail tells people to leave a message. My home voicemail tells people who are calling for restaurant reservations that they have the wrong number. This is the result of a restaurant which apparently advertised my phone number as theirs a few months ago. I really should change the message back to the boring one because the calls have subsided since then.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-25-2004 11:41 PM                     What's wrong with leaving a professional outgoing greeting as the restaurant (but don't name the actual name, just mention "than you for calling the reservation line for your dining pleasure" and such like that)? Tell them that no one is available to take their reservation at this time, but to please leave their name, desired date and time, as well as number in their party and contact phone number, and if there is a problem with their reservation they will be called back. Oh yes, and be sure to mention some kind of FANTASTIC deal on a very expensive dish.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-25-2004 11:45 PM                     May I suggest the Soylent Green?  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-25-2004 11:54 PM                     I can't post what my outgoing message says because it might offend people. So I will remain silent. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-26-2004 12:31 AM                        I used to do something like that back before I had an answering machine. At one time a local Pizza Hut's phone number was one digit different from mine, and we used to get lots of wrong number calls trying to place take-out orders. Once in a while I would take an order and tell the fat-fingered fool that the order would be ready in 15 minutes. Then my roommate and I would drive down to the place to watch the ensuing comedy of errors. Very satisfying.  |  IP: Logged Andy Aggieri Film Handler Posts: 34 From: Las Vegas, NV Registered: Apr 2004 posted 07-26-2004 02:28 AM                     Paul I tried to call pizza hut once here in Vegas and a guy yelled at me for calling the wrong number, maybe it was you. You must have been getting a lot of calls from pizza hut customers if the phone number was only one number off.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-26-2004 04:19 AM                        in college my dormroom phone was the same as the copley plaza (i think) hotel, except it was the local area code, not 800. supposedly a former occupant actually took a reservation. i just never had enough wits about me. carl  |  IP: Logged

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