Comments on: Avoid such old-fashioned, time-wasting answers as

Avoid such old-fashioned, time-wasting answers as

anastasiav — Thu, 27 May 2004 08:04:34 -0800

How To Make Friends By Telephone :: a useful how-to book from the 1940's

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Thu, 27 May 2004 08:25:48 -0800

Nifty! Very business-oriented, which I suppose would make sense.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 27 May 2004 08:28:55 -0800

GLUB-GLUB-MO-BLON

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Thu, 27 May 2004 08:38:55 -0800

Damn, PG, you beat me to it!

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Thu, 27 May 2004 08:57:26 -0800

this is a priceless treasure

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 27 May 2004 09:18:26 -0800

Comment adorable.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Thu, 27 May 2004 09:24:15 -0800

I'm changing my voicemail greeting to GLUB-GLUB-MO-BLON.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 27 May 2004 09:30:27 -0800

The "scribbles" are fascinating too: little staircases going through nearly every paragraph. Why?

By: carter

carter — Thu, 27 May 2004 09:39:49 -0800

Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

By: GaelFC

GaelFC — Thu, 27 May 2004 10:00:20 -0800

I love this! I remember in the early 70s in second grade they showed us all one of those classroom guidance type films about how to use the phone. Even when I was 7, it seemed so affected and ridiculous. I'd love to see that film again.

By: euphorb

euphorb — Thu, 27 May 2004 10:13:13 -0800

GLUB-GLUB-MO-BLON

By: drezdn

drezdn — Thu, 27 May 2004 11:13:30 -0800

GLUB-GLUB-MO-BLON I smell SUCCESSFUL MEME!

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Thu, 27 May 2004 11:22:44 -0800

Hopefully not.

By: squealy

squealy — Thu, 27 May 2004 11:57:38 -0800

Thanks anastaviav. Or should I say GLUB-GLUB-MO-BLON? Probably not.

By: Faze

Faze — Thu, 27 May 2004 11:59:57 -0800

I want to make friends with that chick on the cover.

By: jheiz

jheiz — Thu, 27 May 2004 12:07:38 -0800

Hopefully not. That's adorable! I'd date him! I mean, if my current boyfriend didn't object..

By: woil

woil — Thu, 27 May 2004 13:37:20 -0800

Can I get a shirt with that on it? -- Facinating how far we've come in our social intellect. For example on page 4 it says to "speak to the person at the other end of the line, not to the telephone." the interesting thing here is that I'd never really thought of it any other way...

By: arto

arto — Thu, 27 May 2004 14:48:55 -0800

I'm gonna have to try it the other way. "Yes Mr. Telephone, could you tell them that I said 'okay'?"

By: terrymiles

terrymiles — Thu, 27 May 2004 15:37:28 -0800

put it on ebay! British Telecom used to have a booklet that advised you to stand up when speaking to people or organisations that might make you nervous. It works for me. These days there should be a booklet about how to deal with menus and call centre robots

By: mojo80

mojo80 — Thu, 27 May 2004 16:56:09 -0800

IVRs/phone menus: just press 0 for an operator... it works almost every time! of course, you may not get to the right department but you'll be speaking to a real person! and that's a heckuva lot more reassuring than taking that extra fifteen seconds to go through a phone menu!

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Fri, 28 May 2004 06:15:11 -0800

Here you go, woil.

By: carter

carter — Fri, 28 May 2004 07:43:04 -0800

Heh. *looks for credit card*

By: Pink Fuzzy Bunny

Pink Fuzzy Bunny — Fri, 28 May 2004 11:28:07 -0800

British Telecom used to have a booklet that advised you to stand up when speaking to people or organizations that might make you nervous. Probably the same reason most workshops make you stand up if you are using anything dangerous like polishing machines or grinders. Standing up makes you more aware and alert, probably something about the brain making sure you aren't falling over.