Comments on: Samuel L. Jackson on your motherfucking phone!

Samuel L. Jackson on your motherfucking phone!

mathowie — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:53:51 -0800

Yes, it's another Snakes on a Plane promo but this one is different: it's fucking awesome. Drop in your friends name (hopefully it's semi-normal and they have it in the db), then fill out some info about your friend, then have it place a call to them. Watch friend freak out when Samuel L. Jackson calls them up and knows all sorts of shit about them. Trust me, it totally freaked me out when someone did it to me today.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:55:53 -0800

Here's my first-person account from earlier today. It's a brilliant fucking marketing idea, because once someone does it to you, you'll want to hit everyone you know.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:57:04 -0800

Got it in e-mail about two hours ago, and then sent it via phone to two friends. Pretty nifty.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:07:06 -0800

Doesn't seem to be working for me. I can input my name and my friend's name, but there's nowhere to go after that.

By: yeti

yeti — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:08:13 -0800

OMG. as if SoaP couldn't get any more viral, they go and up the ante. This is ingenious. Too bad there's a 10 PM curfew. I wanted to call a dozen of my friends, but I'm limited to those on the West Coast. Now I gotta wake the East Coast yeti fanclub ass up at 8 AM.

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:14:11 -0800

I think I'll send one to myself everyday. Makes me feel important.

By: daninnj

daninnj — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:14:56 -0800

I remember when they did this for a Lindsay Lohan movie. It was awesome. "Dude, Lindsay Lohan called me and she knew everything about me!"

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:17:06 -0800

Mel Gibson just called me and asked me to not boycott "Apocalypto." Then he started crying.

By: patr1ck

patr1ck — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:22:00 -0800

Holy shit, only 20 minutes into the day and the $30 is gone already. This is brilliant.

By: blendor

blendor — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:23:27 -0800

Sam couldn't pronounce my name or my friend's name. What the fuck, Sam?

By: bunglin jones

bunglin jones — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:23:33 -0800

Sam J calls me all the time anyway.

By: Ohdemah

Ohdemah — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:24:07 -0800

This thing doesn't recognize "Doug". In my day, you couldn't swing a snake on a plane without hitting a guy named...

By: puddinghead

puddinghead — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:24:07 -0800

That is so great. I'm going to freak out the spouse as soon as he gets in. Thanks for the link.

By: turducken

turducken — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:37:58 -0800

Awesome! Prob won't seem so supercool tomorrow -- after I've sent it to everyone I know and love/hate -- but right now it's the greatest thing evah. And props to Sam for having a sense of humor about himself.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:38:03 -0800

Oh, man. I'm not getting ANY work done tomorrow.

By: anjamu

anjamu — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:40:31 -0800

I'm going to have to send out a few of those tomorrow morning, I think ...

By: EnormousTalkingOnion

EnormousTalkingOnion — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:42:37 -0800

Samuel L. Jackson couldn't pronounce my name. :( Also, it won't call my friend's phone because of the area code even though he's in a later time zone...bummer.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:43:20 -0800

The second I realize it's an automated message, I hang up. You should too. If whoever calls doesn't have the decency to be on the phone when they call, that's insulting and offensive. I don't care if the voice is Samuel L. Jackson telling me about snakes on a plane or Winona Ryder telling me she wants to plane on my snake. If it's a recording, it's a waste of my time ringing my bell. The worst is when an automated message calls me and then has the nerve to put me on hold while the next available representative becomes available. Have her call me when she's fucking available. Click. The fact some of you guys DO stand there and don't hang up? That's why they keep doing it. Corporations are supposed to waste their money hiring actual human beings for us to hang up on. The fact they're substituting recordings means there's people out there losing jobs. And it's all your fault. So will you quit encouraging that behavior please? HANG THE HELL UP already! Some of us are tired of picking up the damned phone and getting a robot on the other end. Cut it out. Stop tolerating it for the love of God. The next time you listen to an automated message that called you from a company that chose not to hire an actual person for you to hang up on? Just remember I told you to curl up and die. Thank you.

By: nonmerci

nonmerci — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:43:44 -0800

This is awesome!

By: rsanheim

rsanheim — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:45:25 -0800

Zach: agree 100% about being put on hold to wait for a representative...but if it was Scarlett Johannsen telling me she wants to "plane on my snake" I might have to put up with it... Does it stall at "loading preview 0%" for anyone else?

By: xmutex

xmutex — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:47:50 -0800

Oooh ZachsMind just totally set us all straight.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:48:46 -0800

Zachs, you forgot to add: "HEY YOU KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN" to your post.

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:50:32 -0800

also "BACK IN MY DAY"

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:50:53 -0800

and then something about 3 feet of snow uphill both ways blah blah

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:51:26 -0800

Eh, if it's a recording of a celebery, I'm inclined to at least see what it's about.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:51:57 -0800

celeberty even. Or a celery. If a talking celery called me I might listen.

By: livii

livii — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:52:53 -0800

This is so fantastic. I just sent it to my husband who's sitting on the other side of the room, and bust a gut laughing when his phone rang immediately after I hit send. He didn't seem to find it as funny, but, man. Who else to send it to, though - has to be a cellphone or you could hit anyone in the house, and then the joke is toast.

By: Sibrax

Sibrax — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:53:51 -0800

Too bad there's a 10 PM curfew Ahh, thank you. I was wondering why it was complaining about time zones. Put me in the "brilliant" camp. I hope I can catch people tomorrow before they've heard about this.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:54:17 -0800

Only if it's a sexy green celery though, right?

By: verb

verb — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:54:24 -0800

Yeah, totally. There are Samuel L. Jackson impersonators out there who would kill for this job.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:56:46 -0800

"...but if it was Scarlett Johannsen..." ... If it was Janeane Garofalo, Amber Benson, Heather Donahue, Toni Collette, Gillian Anderson, that Maria chick in Harold & Kumar, or Audrey Hepburn back from the dead, I might hesitate a second, but it's an EFFING RECORDING.

By: SmileyChewtrain

SmileyChewtrain — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:59:12 -0800

It's also an advertisement, and isn't that worse? I guess you gotta pick your battles. That said, it's funny, and I'm planning on freaking my girlfriend out with it tomorrow. (She's not so easily freaked out. This will be a good test of her strength.)

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:02:47 -0800

"Oooh ZachsMind just totally set us all straight." ... I'm gonna go unplug my phone before hitting the sack, just in case one of you fuckers get my phone number off the 'net somehow, and try to wake my ass up with this in the morning. *smirk* Oh. And GET OFF THE LAWN! =P

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:08:39 -0800

the sequel will suck because snakes are definitely gonna be on the no-fly list pretty soon.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:15:01 -0800

Remember the time, August 2, 2006 at 9:43PM, when Zach totally lost his mothersnakesonaplanefuckin' Mind.

By: teishu

teishu — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:15:24 -0800

If a talking celery called me I might listen. the celery stalks at midnight mother fucker! and this is totally awesome.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:15:49 -0800

Every party needs a pooper.

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:15:57 -0800

This is the betterest of teh internets.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:18:55 -0800

This makes me glad I don't answer my cell phone. Or have any friends.

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:25:55 -0800

Matt, you should send Andy Baio the $30 if he's behind all your secret awesomeness.

By: gurple

gurple — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:33:04 -0800

Zachs, you forgot to add: "HEY YOU KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN" to your post. Heh, heh, I get it. Zachsmind is an old geezer, because he doesn't think this shiny thing is cool. Here's the problem with that analysis. This is really damn cool... exactly once. Oooh, neat, how'd they do that, wow, what great technology. In two years, when every new movie and breakfast cereal does crap like this, we'll all dismiss it as annoying marketing. Zachs is ahead of his time, not behind.

By: gurple

gurple — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:34:56 -0800

On the other hand, SOAP really does seem to be batting a million with their snazzy edgy underground marketing. The campaign is brilliant. If the campaign gets any more brilliant and edgy and snazzy and underground, though, I may not be able to detect the actual movie behind it any more.

By: Extopalopaketle

Extopalopaketle — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:38:48 -0800

Very cool listening to Sam J, but for heavens sake, isn't this another vector for spam? This and those stupid e-postcard craptaculae. Not just for the sender, but for the recipient too. Read the terms: At some other Time Warner sites, you can submit information about other people... personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number ...enable us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them. we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice. Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN. I HAD TO WALK 3 MILES IN THE SNOW, UPHILL BOTH WAYS TO GET THE FLAMING, TARANTULA COVERED SHOVEL TO CLEAR IT, BUT NOT BEFORE BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. AGAIN.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:43:44 -0800

I'm sick of this motherfucking PepsiBlue on my motherfucking MetaFilter.

By: twsf

twsf — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:50:07 -0800

and let's be honest, what motherf&*%in' good is this if Sammy J ain't gonna curse on the call...

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:59:03 -0800

Awesome. Just sent it to a friend of mine, but Samuel Motherfucking Jackson wouldn't say his name (one of those tools who goes by two initial, like O.J. or K.Y.).

By: fenriq

fenriq — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:01:07 -0800

Too cool. I'm still not going to go see the movie but this is viral marketing at its best. I do think you should be able to toggle him swearing or not though because that would be the fucking bomb!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:19:06 -0800

Awesome, although all the people I sent it to were not in Jackson's database of names. Damn it. Mine was, though! Yay!

By: slapshot57

slapshot57 — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:19:50 -0800

oh dear god this is awesome. not quite as awesome as if I could send "Yo, you need to grab your Mother$%^# friend Mark and go see me get these Mother$^*#*& snakes of this Mother#^$%# plane." but awesome non-the-less this will be the first thing I accomplish tomorrow morning

By: blacklite

blacklite — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:36:25 -0800

I think you got snakes on your internet!

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:55:17 -0800

someone ban this "mathowie" dude, he's starting to act like owns the place.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:03:03 -0800

Oooh ZachsMind just totally set us all straight. Well, yes, kinda. The RIAA, the MPAA, and Wal-Mart don't get a cent from me. I'm working out how to do this with AT&T also. The second I can cut myself from the petro-teat I will. You fret about how congressmen, under the influence of lobbyists, can pass laws making downloading or copyright infringement a felony, or how to preserve net neutrality. Here's your solution: choke them at the roots. Don't rent that movie, don't buy that album, don't hit the theaters. Pitch your TV. Find another ISP. I've done all that and it's cake. I will not see SoaP. Don't need to. The internet buzz has been far more entertaining than the movie will be. When it comes to your government, you can figure your vote at the booth on any given Tuesday is worthless. We are reduced to voting with our wallets. If you don't even have the spine to do that then please drink a tall, cool glass of refreshing antifreeze and get the fuck out of my way. By paying actual money to see Pirates Of The Caribbean you are robbing me of my liberty. I know, it sounds like an innocuous enough act, but trust me: You are weakening freedom and I'm better off with you dead. All for a fucking movie. Or song. Shit.

By: turducken

turducken — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:16:16 -0800

sourwookie = hilarious! You really had me going there for a minute. But then I got to the "POTC/robbing me of my freedom" part, and figured it out. Moderation is the key to satire, my friend. But good job nonetheless.

By: jonson

jonson — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:33:20 -0800

sourwookie, your elitist douchebag impression made my night! You really have all the touches down pat. Like turducken, I found myself believing you actually were a snotty undergrad with delusions of moral/intellectual/philosophical superiority until you brought up how you'd be better off if the vast majority of young America who saw Pirates of the Carribean was suddenly dead. A wee bit over the top, but otherwise, kudos to you sir, you've captured that "pathetic deluded snob" character to a T.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:54:55 -0800

sourwookie : "By paying actual money to see Pirates Of The Caribbean you are robbing me of my liberty." Liberty is a zero-sum game. I go see as many movies as I can, figuring that if I take enough liberty from you, a bit of it is bound to circulate back to me. ZachsMind : "If it's a recording, it's a waste of my time ringing my bell." Yes. It doesn't matter if it's amusing, interesting, or otherwise good. Recordings are a waste of my time. I also avoid mp3 players, CDs, and records. When I want to hear Mogwai, I get on a plane to Scotland and ring their doorbell until they play me a tune.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:57:27 -0800

sourwookie : "I'm better off with you dead. All for a fucking movie. Or song. Shit." Wishing someone death for watching a fucking movie or listening to a song is indeed shit.

By: sharksandwich

sharksandwich — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:28:34 -0800

I think the "snakes on a plane" meme is played out. Kind of stupid. Suckers.

By: danb

danb — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:43:46 -0800

In other news, Samuel L. Jackson is God.

By: mkhall

mkhall — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:09:58 -0800

[...] I may not be able to detect the actual movie behind it any more. Wait, there's a movie, too?

By: intermod

intermod — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:15:54 -0800

Doesn't work for me. It just sits on the SoAP logo. Looks like the rest of the world is finding out and, unless GlobalMegaCorp throws some more bandwidth/CPU at it, it looks like the fun is over :(

By: CRM114

CRM114 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:25:03 -0800

This worked from home for me last night but this morning at work I have been stymied by the content filter, who thinks it's a porn site.

By: Auz

Auz — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:30:01 -0800

"The second I realize it's an automated message, I hang up. You should too. If whoever calls doesn't have the decency to be on the phone when they call, that's insulting and offensive." I dunno... the last one I got was from my credit card company telling me there was an unusual use of my card the night before. Granted it was me using it, but it'd have been foolish to hang up if it hadn't been.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:35:54 -0800

I'm pretty sure that this is not really Sam Jackson's voice, by the way.

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:42:03 -0800

The RIAA, the MPAA, and Wal-Mart don't get a cent from me. I'm working out how to do this with AT&T also. The second I can cut myself from the petro-teat I will. You fret about how congressmen, under the influence of lobbyists, can pass laws making downloading or copyright infringement a felony, or how to preserve net neutrality. Here's your solution: choke them at the roots. Don't rent that movie, don't buy that album, don't hit the theaters. Pitch your TV. Find another ISP. I've done all that and it's cake. I will not see SoaP. Don't need to. The internet buzz has been far more entertaining than the movie will be. When it comes to your government, you can figure your vote at the booth on any given Tuesday is worthless. We are reduced to voting with our wallets. *clap* *clap* The only vote ANYONE has is their wallets. Woe be to the US of A when the rest of the world decides this is the case and US Dollars are not a worthy method of exchange for goods/services.

By: Ben Grimm

Ben Grimm — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:45:08 -0800

"I think the "snakes on a plane" meme is played out." The baby-goo goo word "meme" is what's played out.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:15:30 -0800

The baby-goo goo word "meme" is what's played out. I grant you, that it's a bit overused at this point, but it's a perfectly good and appropriate word for this sort of thing. As for me, I am looking forward to this movie coming out, so we can be done with this already. Seems like I have been hearing about it since last December or earlier. Good Lord! Is this the most over promoted POS movie ever in the history of cinema?

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:04:31 -0800

Quick, someone send a call to Ry Cooder.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:10:55 -0800

Needs motherfuckingsnakesonthismotherfuckingplane tag.

By: Mid

Mid — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:20:11 -0800

Is it broken now? Nothing comes up when I connect.

By: Nahum Tate

Nahum Tate — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:23:46 -0800

"I think the "snakes on a plane" meme is played out." The baby-goo goo word "meme" is what's played out. posted by Ben Grimm at 4:45 AM PST on August 3 Hear Hear!

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:41:55 -0800

Everyone else: blah blah blah Me: This is AWESOME. How long until the call goes through? I'm going to be on pins & needles all day waiting for my coworker to get that m*otherfucking call on the m*otherfucking phone.

By: Mid

Mid — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:42:00 -0800

OK, it works for me in IE, but not FF.

By: indiebass

indiebass — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:48:18 -0800

it worked for me in FF... I love this, btw. I get to hear Sam Jackson say my name. and if that isn't the bee's knees, i don't know what is. AWESOME!

By: drobot

drobot — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:50:10 -0800

Just to reiterate Extopalopaketle's point, in addition to sending your pals a super-awesome message from Samuel Jackson regarding the no-doubt fantastic new movie Snakes on a Plane, you're also signing them up to receive information from Time Warner on all their other great products. Exciting! We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.

By: onlyconnect

onlyconnect — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:02:09 -0800

Wait, are we sure this isn't some attempt by the department of homeland security to trick us into giving them personal information about our families and friends?

By: Grod

Grod — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:15:05 -0800

It can't pronounce the name "Dan" ‽ It doesn't have "employee" as a relationship, and it doesn't have "graphic designer" as an occupation. Lame.

By: thekilgore

thekilgore — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:47:30 -0800

I was mad about it not having "graphic designer" as an occupation, too. But I worked around it. And it couldn't say "Josh" but it did have "Joshua." Even with its faults I sent them to approximately 45,000 people this morning.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:18:21 -0800

Okay, it doesn't have "sales" either, so I opted for "sucking up to boss". Easy peasy. But then you also *have* to select a physical trait, and my friend has neither tattoos, a tan, braces, big muscles, dyed hair or, a weird hairdo. He's pretty boring really. I think he could really use a message from the Sam.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:18:44 -0800

No "Ben" but "Benjamin." No "Tim" but "Timothy." You know, if they just provided a list of names that would work, It'd be easier for me to figure out who to send this to. Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:20:08 -0800

The physical traits section is the most poorly designed.

By: witchstone

witchstone — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:24:29 -0800

Just pick the painted fingernails one. It's so random, it works for everyone. I used it on a male friend, who unfortunately was on the subway when ole Sammy called, so I don't think it worked. Curses!

By: blacklite

blacklite — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:33:01 -0800

You know, if they just provided a list of names that would work, It'd be easier for me to figure out who to send this to. Of course there are only full names. Samuel L. has to say them, and he requires impact to his words. "Tim!" doesn't carry nearly as much weight as "Timothy! This is Samuel L. Fucking Jackson! Snakes on a plane!" (I've already forgotten what he actually says.) There's no ZachsMind, incidentally, but there is Zachary. Zachary! This is Samuel L. Jackson! This is a recording, just to fuck with you!

By: muckster

muckster — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:47:19 -0800

Mildly amusing but still no excuse for spamming your friends.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:08:22 -0800

I got one to send, but the 2nd one has been stuck on "Sending" for like 20 minutes. I think its a great idea. Perfect? Hell no. Amusing? Hell yes.

By: woj

woj — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:15:13 -0800

I've just tried it on a couple of people, and their phone rings, but then no message from SLJ? What gives?!

By: turducken

turducken — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:16:17 -0800

I find it fascinating that the words "awesome" and "spam" are being used to describe this cultural blip. (Way more "awesomes," tho. I'll add another: Awesome.) It's cool, it's a commercial, it rocks, it's an invasion of privacy, soon everyone will know about it, soon everyone will be tired of it. One word: "Whassssuuuuppp!"

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:22:44 -0800

Whasssssuuuupppppp!

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:26:04 -0800

"By paying actual money to see Pirates Of The Caribbean you are robbing me of my liberty." That rant was beautiful, SourWookie! I think I'm gonna cry. *sniff* "Hear Hear!" I think the "Hear Hear" meme has been played out. Like, in 1873. "are we sure this isn't some attempt by the department of homeland security to trick us into giving them personal information about our families and friends?" Try these departments first before you worry about the hopeless insecurity department. Duh.

By: bilbo baggins

bilbo baggins — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:35:16 -0800

I sent one this morning, when I try to send another it lets me type in names but does not let me move foward. Anyone else having this problem?

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:42:37 -0800

Wow, Samuel L Jackson called me this morning and I was like wtf. Pretty_Generic is STILL making trouble!

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:19:39 -0800

I'm having the same problem woj is - the phone rings, but Sam isn't there.

By: scody

scody — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:21:09 -0800

sourwookie: By paying actual money to see Pirates Of The Caribbean you are robbing me of my liberty. Well, the liberty to take your nick from other Samuel L. Jackson movies appears to still be intact, so look on the bright side.

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:22:38 -0800

Not working for me either. It makes a call, but the message never plays... Anyone still having success?

By: Danf

Danf — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:03:34 -0800

just now happened to me. . .phone rang, no msg. . . maybe the snakes won.

By: Darkman

Darkman — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:20:57 -0800

Has anyone had any success with getting (DELETED) to call you with an offer to "plane your snake"? Really, that's kinda the main thing I've taken from this thread. That, and notes on how to rob people of their liberty.

By: joecacti

joecacti — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:32:45 -0800

ditto on the no message. I did laugh at the screen where Sammy says, "I think you have snakes on your internet!"

By: nlindstrom

nlindstrom — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:46:26 -0800

This meme has jumped the shark.

By: BackwardsHatClub

BackwardsHatClub — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:58:11 -0800

And you can't retry the number if they get a blank call. This would have been much better if they didn't have the curfew on it and I could have done it last night.

By: starman

starman — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:09:51 -0800

My favorite part of the phone call is that SLJ is threatening to murder you if you don't see the movie. In other news, Samuel L. Jackson has been charged with 531,684 counts of making threatening and harassing phone calls.

By: scrump

scrump — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:43:06 -0800

I don't give a crap about the FPP, the comments are making this thread for me. I now must work "FLAMING, TARANTULA COVERED SHOVEL" into a conversation as soon as possible.

By: metaname

metaname — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:06:34 -0800

The page does work for me right now either. Anyone who got it to work know if it lets you call numbers in Canada?

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:20:52 -0800

The dropown lists are interesting - show what kind of demographic they're after. No self-employed artists, apparently. And what my friend isn't bald but doesn't have a crazy haircut or like gardening?

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:37:13 -0800

I, uh, wouldn’t have sex with Audrey Hepburn if she were back from the dead. It’d be kinda terrifying. If you think about it.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:47:28 -0800

I got a successful call to a number in Canada at about 9:30 AM EST, but since then it's just dead air when SLJ calls.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:59:49 -0800

Did one in Canada just a few minutes ago and all I got was dead air. Disappointing.

By: allkindsoftime

allkindsoftime — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:17:43 -0800

If Audrey was back from the dead I'd gladly ride a plane full of snakes for the chance to do her.

By: lapolla

lapolla — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:52:25 -0800

so... you're sayin' snakes on a plane has jumped the sharksandwich?

By: Servo5678

Servo5678 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:55:18 -0800

I pulled this first thing this morning on a co-worker before the rush seemingly broke it. As soon as I pushed the "go" button, the phone rang. Co-worker picks up, Sam says "Hey [co-worker name]!", to which co-worker says "Hey" all familiar like. Then Samuel L. Jackson introduced himself and co-worker got freaked. After the call he turned to me across the office (where I was laughing) and asked "How'd you get him to do that?!" I should have said that Sam owed me a favor.

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:01:27 -0800

I did a call about an hour ago and it worked fine. So it's not necessarily broken.

By: ktoad

ktoad — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:55:06 -0800

Who cares if it gives phone numbers to marketers? They already have our phone numbers, and we should all be screening our calls by now anyway. I enjoyed this little timewaster. Thanks for the post, mathhowie.

By: bwg

bwg — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:30:28 -0800

I get to hear Sam Jackson say my name. Say my name again. SAY MY NAME AGAIN! I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker! Say my name one more goddamn time.

By: k8t

k8t — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:52:59 -0800

isn't loading :(

By: k8t

k8t — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:02:59 -0800

reloaded...

By: MrMustard

MrMustard — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:23:34 -0800

I'm late to the party - as per usual - but man, this is so cool. I just got Samuel L to tell a friend to 'for God's sake, stop fiddling around with those dorky glasses!'

By: Mid

Mid — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:47:54 -0800

I received one at about 9pm central last night, fwiw.