I just have to love Meryl for finding such precious gems as the Top 42 Funny Ways To Answer Your Phone. Next time I get a call that has “Unavailable” or “Out of Area” listed, I think I might just try one of these. “911, What’s your Emergency?”
On a sort of related note, just last night I remembered the time when I was in high school and some girl gave out “her” phone number, promising that if they drove by she would do a striptease for them. My parents knew I wasn’t involved, I was camping at Enchanted Rock for the weekend with my Geology class studying with the new software here http://www.ctech.com/geology-software/. She had a phone ad on one of those personal phone services (1987, before the web as we know it…) and the number that she gave out all weekend long was my house! Someone finally told them what was going on, and after awhile (and LOTS of phone calls) my parents decided to have some fun with it – telling guys that she had been killed in an accident and they just couldn’t believe that they were calling her or something along those lines. I think my mom may have even gone so far to have told some of the guys that it was her. Or given out bogus directions. It was pretty amusing in the end. Then again, I’m always easily amused…