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Captain_Tenille — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:22:53 -0800

*Boop* *Boop* *Boop*! We're sorry, but the phone message you have called, is dead. Please hang up and dial again. Yes, Jane Barbe, the woman on phone messages, has been put on hold while she waits for St. Peter to take her call at the age of 74.

By: Captain_Tenille

Captain_Tenille — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:29:12 -0800

Sure, she may not be as famous as Bob Hope, but I'm willing to venture that everyone, at least in the United States, has heard her voice at one time or another. You've probably heard her within the month, even. I know I have. I can't think of the last time I watched anything starring Bob Hope.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:43:33 -0800

Agreed, Captain_Tenille, but it will be a tight race for me to figure out which one of the two has caused me more annoyance over the years. :)

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:50:19 -0800

I'm amazed she didn't die of exhaustion decades ago.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:33:59 -0800

Her number is no longer in service.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:40:56 -0800

Her phone is off the hook

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:42:53 -0800

If you believe you have reached this afterlife in error, please hang up and try again. She may be dead, but I'll still hear her voice dozens of times a day. Joke's on me!

By: kindall

kindall — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:40:45 -0800

It always bothered me that she said "The number you have reached, 555-1212, has been disconnected." Well, if it's been disconnected, I haven't reached it, have I? I suppose she didn't write it, though.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:04:38 -0800

That's not true, kindall; she wrote all of her own material. The legend is that she was brutally self-critical and often couldn't write for weeks on end. "The Number You Have Reached" was actually written with a mascera wand on a jelly doughnut. You gotta give genius room to be.

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