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John Dean
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:18 am
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R H Draney wrote:
| Quote: | don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense
mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
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John Dean
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:18 am
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Joe Fineman wrote:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs <chriggs@comcást.net> writes:
No shit.
Don't give me that horse maneuver. The age of cavalry is dead.
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Not as long as I feed my horse on corn and beans
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John Dean
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:18 am
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Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | R H Draney wrote:
[...]
Disney movie "Hawmps!", a fictionalized account of the pre-Civil-War
US Camel Corps....
More serious works on the subject describe the soldiers involved in
this odd experiment as "cavalry", but I wonder if this is
misleading...seems to require horses..."gamalry", maybe?...r
The usual British term was "camelry". I can't remember where I've
read it, but I'm sure it's been more than once: T.E.Lawrence and
ancient history texts seem likely. The word appears to have been
coined by Liddell or Scott for their 1854 Greek Lexicon. (One of our
maths masters had been in the Camel Corps, and had that
prematurely-age-spotted look of some old tropical hands: perhaps he
used the term.)
Lawrence does use the term. I recently watched "Lawrence of Arabia" |
again on DVD and was hugely impressed with O'Toole and Sharif on
camel-back. O'Toole spent months learning to ride before the film
started shooting apparently. Anthony Quinn was wise enough to stick to
horses.
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:19 am
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Skitt wrote:
| Quote: | R H Draney wrote:
I do hope she didn't say "Calvary Portfolio Services, please
hold"....r
Not right like that, but I did wind up on hold for at least five
minutes. One of those "next available flunky" things.
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My theory is that the "your call will be answered by the next available
representative [or associate or whatever] in the order it was received"
is just a phrase that means "there is one person to answer questions. He
or she is right here and will get to you when he or she feels like it.
Right now, chump, he or she is deciding whether to pick up the phone
(which has a "caller waiting" signal flashing) or to have another sip of
coffee and maybe call home first." Or, it could mean "there's no one
here. They are all out to lunch. If you want to wait another 30 minutes,
someone will talk to you and will ask you, first, for the information
you've already keyed into your phone keypad."
And don't forget: "Your call is important to us" means "why are you
calling now, you stupid jerk? I've got better things to do than listen
to you whine."
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Skitt
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:41 am
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Maria Conlon wrote:
| Quote: | Skitt wrote:
R H Draney wrote:
I do hope she didn't say "Calvary Portfolio Services, please
hold"....r
Not right like that, but I did wind up on hold for at least five
minutes. One of those "next available flunky" things.
My theory is that the "your call will be answered by the next
available representative [or associate or whatever] in the order it
was received" is just a phrase that means "there is one person to
answer questions. He or she is right here and will get to you when he
or she feels like it. Right now, chump, he or she is deciding whether
to pick up the phone (which has a "caller waiting" signal flashing)
or to have another sip of coffee and maybe call home first."
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You might be right on with that one. Once I reached "Larry", we had a
conversation, and then he told me to hold on. I waited and waited ... then
the call was disconnected. I called again, got into the "next available"
mode, waited, and lost the connection. I called a third time, and after the
due waiting procedure was connected to -- you guessesd it -- "Larry". We
then concluded our conversation in a semi-satisfactory manner. This time I
got "Larry's" direct extension number, which might help.
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:31 am
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Skitt filted:
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You might be right on with that one. Once I reached "Larry", we had a
conversation, and then he told me to hold on. I waited and waited ... then
the call was disconnected. I called again, got into the "next available"
mode, waited, and lost the connection. I called a third time, and after the
due waiting procedure was connected to -- you guessesd it -- "Larry". We
then concluded our conversation in a semi-satisfactory manner. This time I
got "Larry's" direct extension number, which might help.
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Either that or they're all "Larry" ex officio...dance studio I used to go to ran
newspaper ads asking people to call a "Miss Bonnie"...the receptionist
originally *was* named Bonnie, but whoever answered the phone still answered to
that name...at some point the original Miss Bonnie left, but the ads continued
to run unchanged for several years, until a real "Miss Jill" took over the front
desk and the ad was changed accordingly...as far as I know whoever picks up the
phone there still tells callers she's Miss Jill....r |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:55 am
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R H Draney wrote:
| Quote: | Skitt filted:
You might be right on with that one. Once I reached "Larry", we had
a conversation, and then he told me to hold on. I waited and waited
... then the call was disconnected. I called again, got into the
"next available" mode, waited, and lost the connection. I called a
third time, and after the due waiting procedure was connected to --
you guessesd it -- "Larry". We then concluded our conversation in a
semi-satisfactory manner. This time I got "Larry's" direct
extension number, which might help.
Either that or they're all "Larry" ex officio...
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No, it was the same guy, as he remembered our previous conversation and had
done some research on it since then. I also recognized the voice.
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:43 am
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On 23 Jan 2005 11:31:22 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net>
wrote:
| Quote: | Skitt filted:
You might be right on with that one. Once I reached "Larry", we had a
conversation, and then he told me to hold on. I waited and waited ... then
the call was disconnected. I called again, got into the "next available"
mode, waited, and lost the connection. I called a third time, and after the
due waiting procedure was connected to -- you guessesd it -- "Larry". We
then concluded our conversation in a semi-satisfactory manner. This time I
got "Larry's" direct extension number, which might help.
Either that or they're all "Larry" ex officio...dance studio I used to go to ran
newspaper ads asking people to call a "Miss Bonnie"...the receptionist
originally *was* named Bonnie, but whoever answered the phone still answered to
that name...at some point the original Miss Bonnie left, but the ads continued
to run unchanged for several years, until a real "Miss Jill" took over the front
desk and the ad was changed accordingly...as far as I know whoever picks up the
phone there still tells callers she's Miss Jill....r
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A neighbor's wife worked in a telemarketing program selling campground
time-shares. She sat at the "Barbara" desk. Anyone that used that
desk was "Barbara". Files were kept at the desk, and anyone that
called back for information or purchase and asked for "Barbara" was
routed to the desk where the files were. The company did not use
computers, so files were created by hand.
The neighbor's wife lasted about two months on the job. Most of the
leads were retired people, and she got tired of shouting into the
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don groves
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:13 am
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In article <o768v09prdmlvdujncrq1l6fg1v3s1rvbf@4ax.com>, Tony
Cooper at tony_cooper213@earthlink.net hath writ:
| Quote: | On 23 Jan 2005 11:31:22 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net
wrote:
Skitt filted:
You might be right on with that one. Once I reached "Larry", we had a
conversation, and then he told me to hold on. I waited and waited ... then
the call was disconnected. I called again, got into the "next available"
mode, waited, and lost the connection. I called a third time, and after the
due waiting procedure was connected to -- you guessesd it -- "Larry". We
then concluded our conversation in a semi-satisfactory manner. This time I
got "Larry's" direct extension number, which might help.
Either that or they're all "Larry" ex officio...dance studio I used to go to ran
newspaper ads asking people to call a "Miss Bonnie"...the receptionist
originally *was* named Bonnie, but whoever answered the phone still answered to
that name...at some point the original Miss Bonnie left, but the ads continued
to run unchanged for several years, until a real "Miss Jill" took over the front
desk and the ad was changed accordingly...as far as I know whoever picks up the
phone there still tells callers she's Miss Jill....r
A neighbor's wife worked in a telemarketing program selling campground
time-shares. She sat at the "Barbara" desk. Anyone that used that
desk was "Barbara". Files were kept at the desk, and anyone that
called back for information or purchase and asked for "Barbara" was
routed to the desk where the files were. The company did not use
computers, so files were created by hand.
The neighbor's wife lasted about two months on the job. Most of the
leads were retired people, and she got tired of shouting into the
phone and repeating herself.
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Hey, great idea for getting rid of them. The no-call list is
easier though.
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Jitze Couperus
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:29 pm
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:35:05 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Calgary....r
I'll have to Mull that over.
Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?
Some instances are appalling.
A rum remark.
Muck (artney), actually. Forgive me if I broke cover unnecessarily,
but sometimes it's hard to tell whether I'm one step ahead or one
step
behind.
A man can get eigg on his face that way. But I can't be the firth to
thay tho.
Go forth - or scarper with the flow while you can |
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