It's Sunday. So have Optimus Prime phone your friends.

October 14, 2007 9:02 AM

Have Optimus Prime phone your friends.
posted by patr1ck (32 comments total)

Just like the now defunct Snakes on a Plane phone call site. Get it while it's hot.
posted by patr1ck at 9:03 AM on October 14, 2007

God, this is so lame.
posted by BeerFilter at 9:06 AM on October 14, 2007

Long pauses between segments, bland dialogue, not even a hint of humour... I wouldn't even bother sending this people I hate.
posted by furtive at 9:14 AM on October 14, 2007

This thread is useless without the President's phone number.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:19 AM on October 14, 2007 [3 favorites]

Heh, thanks for this. Sent one to my roommate.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 9:20 AM on October 14, 2007

I sent one to a big TransFan I know, thanks.
posted by grouse at 9:22 AM on October 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

That sucked - it couldn't pronounce any of the names I entered...
posted by FeldBum at 9:32 AM on October 14, 2007

I know it's lame & marketing & blah, blah, blah, but I did this immediately upon seeing the post and it worked great for my co-worker who is a Transformers dork. Thanks, patr1ck!
posted by jonson at 9:50 AM on October 14, 2007

"This thread is useless without the President's phone number."

202-456-1414
posted by Mcable at 10:01 AM on October 14, 2007

Yesterday, I took my brand-new bike out for its first ride and got into an accident, forcing me to ride eight miles on a sprained ankle. Then the transmission failed on my car, stranding me in a shopping mall parking lot with groceries and a sprained ankle. Then I saw the Transformers movie.

The movie was the worst part. I hate you, Michael Bay.
posted by ardgedee at 10:05 AM on October 14, 2007 [8 favorites]

I have Optimus Prime so I could get all of the soccer channels.
posted by wfc123 at 10:13 AM on October 14, 2007 [2 favorites]

It would be so much better if they had Jazz from the movie do it in his jive talk. Or at least Megatron.
posted by CG at 10:14 AM on October 14, 2007

I think I would be murdered by any friends I sent this to. They're a bunch of violent bastards.
posted by Talanvor at 10:31 AM on October 14, 2007

I wonder if Rush will auction off the voice mail recording I just left him from Hillary?
posted by srboisvert at 10:32 AM on October 14, 2007

It IS Sunday, after all.
posted by hermitosis at 10:48 AM on October 14, 2007

Thank you so much for posting this. My friends and relatives will be pissed.
posted by vorpal bunny at 10:58 AM on October 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

I would only have Optimus Prime call my friends if I could make him personally apologize for selling out their childhoods to Michael Bey.
posted by webmutant at 11:09 AM on October 14, 2007

Is nothing, not even the rabid marketing and mass-produced crap thrown at us when we were easily impressed children, sacred?
posted by hermitosis at 11:23 AM on October 14, 2007

WTF? This great! Except for that the part that Optimus Prime has a major system fault that precludes him from speaking most non-Western names...other than that, great!

But the absolute best part? Thoughtfully giving out my (so-called) friends personal details to Paramount Pictures parent company, global mega-corp Viacom.

Wow! It's like I am really a participant in my own demise!
posted by humannaire at 11:42 AM on October 14, 2007

My Transformers-obsessed friend will love this even if it is blatant marketing etc.
posted by Ricky_gr10 at 2:13 PM on October 14, 2007

This is blatant marketing, but still cool. I turned my huge-transformers-geek friend back into a little kid for a few seconds. He said he actually froze for a moment after it said his name, and then responded "Optimus?"
posted by agentofselection at 4:02 PM on October 14, 2007 [2 favorites]

TransFan

That might not mean what you mean it to mean.
posted by oats at 4:41 PM on October 14, 2007

yeah yeah, pepsi blue.
i just like making optimus prime say amiga.
posted by es_de_bah at 5:09 PM on October 14, 2007

Hmm, let's see what the privacy policy says
Whatdya know, there is no privacy policy!
posted by Citizen Premier at 5:18 PM on October 14, 2007

I don't care that it's blatant marketing, I love these things for whatever reason, especially Optimus.
posted by BackwardsHatClub at 5:20 PM on October 14, 2007

Would it be wrong if I had him say "I died for your sins"?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 7:26 PM on October 14, 2007

I wish I lived in an American State, rather than this Semi-American state I do live in.

Then maybe, just maybe I too could receive a humourous telephone greeting by some text to speech engine out there.

I can only hope and dream....
posted by mattoxic at 8:05 PM on October 14, 2007

"...your so-called lover..."

I wouldn't piss on the movie if it was on fire but I'll mess with this all day long. Thanks!
posted by samh23 at 8:13 PM on October 14, 2007

can i get this optimus prime to call me on my special 900 number so i can charge him $50/minute to hear my duck jokes?
posted by bruce at 9:38 PM on October 14, 2007

I have heard that this movie, which should be about robotys hitting each other, contains next to no robots hitting each other. DO NOT WANT.
posted by Artw at 10:27 PM on October 14, 2007

Does it have a 'comedy' sequence in the middle that seems to go on for about four years that kills any slight enjoyment you might have had stone dead. And is every single action sequence filmed in shakey-cam blurovision so YOU'VE GOT NO IDEA WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!!! BAY, I HATE YOU! HATE YOU!... sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:45 AM on October 15, 2007

Aw, no late night calls from Optimus. It restricts when it can call. And I was looking forward to Optimus After Dark...
posted by ALongDecember at 9:09 AM on October 15, 2007