Phones are starting to ring incessantly here at CrabAppleLane mainly at supper time. Radio and television commercials are even worse. Loud, loud, loud. All politics all the time. Most of the callers hide their identity from caller ID and some of them even hide their phone number. Some of them hang up as soon as the answering machine picks up and some of them spew their recorded message one machine to another. Six more days of this, I'm afraid. They're exempt from the National Do Not Call Registry but not from the CrabAppleLane Do Not Bother Registry.
About today's QOTD: What would you do with something like that?
Quote of the Day
Kyodo says the luxury car features 300,000 pieces of Swarovski crystal.
USA Today
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "The poll is simple. I have chosen ten of the more high profile remakes of seventies classics that have been released in the past decade for the poll. Simply pick your favorites and ignore the ones you can't stand. I think a few of these are really solid films in their own right, while some are okay, and some are just plain garbage so the results should be interesting."
I rec'd a call way back when there were many canditates for the presidency. It was an automated system asking if I'd mind taking a survey about the issues. I figured, what the heck, this could be fun. The questions clearly had a slant to them that was contrary to my own slant, so as my spoken answers went on, I laughed more & more as I spoke. I hope whoever listened to it enjoyed my dismissive laughter.
You're much more generous than I, Lana. I took a unsolicited phone survey once. By the two minute mark, I was impatient and aggravated. I lasted until the end somehow but I haven't submitted to that nuisance since.
I've already voted, so all phone calls and advertising are more than lost on me. They would be anyway.
We'll be voting on election day, Kim. Kinda funny how the candidates I'm voting FOR haven't tried to leave a message but their opponents have. How do they know? :)
They're exempt from the National Do Not Call Registry but not from the CrabAppleLane Do Not Bother Registry.
Yes, you do end up having to set up your own. They're driving me up a wall and leading to the ringer being switched off more often than not. The robo-calls aren't so bad, but the lady who would not leave me alone about the importance of early voting, no matter how many times I explained to her that I LIKE voting on Election Day, cheesed me off pretty bad.
I like voting on Election Day, too. I have never voted early.
By the way, that missive I mentioned at your place is here: http://www.crabapplelane.net/blog/2008/09/supply-demand-and-threats.html
I know it's not that crazy by big blog standards but 9 of those 14 had never commented here before. There might have been more but I closed comments on it after half a day.