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mkultra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:54 PM
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I just got a call from the RNC
Unknown Caller: "Hi, this is Rob Blahblah with the Republican National Committee"

Me: "Your with the Republican National Committee?"

Unknown Caller: "That's correct"

Me: "Go fuck yourself" **click**



Do you think i was civil enough?
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:55 PM
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1. Don't be so coy next time.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:58 PM
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24. may they please call me, call me, call me.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:55 PM
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2. You were just quoting
one of their favorite guys, Dick Cheney. Good enough for Dick, good enough for you. :thumbsup:
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:55 PM
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3. Well, you didn't throw the phone down,
so you were more reasonable than I would have been.

I would have just laughted and laughted till they were forced to hang up.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:56 PM
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4. You should have told them what you REALLY think!
:rofl:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:56 PM
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5. Boy did they get a
WRONG NUMBER!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:56 PM
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6. I wish they'd call me.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:57 PM
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7. Oh God, I would have LOVED to get a real live RNC caller. I would have gone of a lot of points
And then told them to go fuck themselves and hang up
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MissDeeds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:57 PM
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8. OMG, I wish they'd call me
Please, please, please god, let them call me. :evilgrin:

All things considered, I think you showed admirable restraint.
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mkultra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:10 PM
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17. thank you and it was truly a dream come true for me.
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meeshrox Donating Member (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:58 PM
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9. Too bad you didn't have an airhorn handy...
that would have been only a tiny more hilarious than what you did! LOVE IT!
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:58 PM
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10. I'd draw it out as long as possible and totally tease him, wasting his time all the while.
But yours was good too.
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:03 PM
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16. I do that with telemarketers. "Oh, could you hold on just a second?"
Then I put the phone down and leave it there for about 10 minutes.
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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 06:36 PM
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26. I'm a college student who has worked as a telemarketer
And I can you, I used to love it when people would do that. It meant I got to sit there and read my book or text my friends. It was like having an extra break. If you ACTUALLY want to piss off the telemarketer your best bet is to let them read the entire script, and then act like you dont understand and ask them to repeat it over and over.
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 02:48 PM
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33. i was thinking the same thing.
prolong it until he hangs up.

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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:59 PM
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11. LOL! Couldn't have said it better. n/t
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:59 PM
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12. Just a thought...
...I most likely would have done with that call as I do with most annoying calls:

I would have told them that I was just visiting and they needed to talk to the homeowner who I thought would be really interested. I then put the phone down and ignore the call thereafter.

:evilgrin:
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:00 PM
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13. I would have said a whole lot more.
Like how every single one of them is human garbage for inciting people to harass and threaten their elected Representatives for voting for this health care bill and they should be ashamed of themselves.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:00 PM
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14. I would've stayed on the phone and had a nice little chat like
I won't even consider donating until you tell Beck and Palin to tone down their rhetoric.

Play along next time and use your talking points...that's what I would do anyway.
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greencharlie Donating Member (827 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:01 PM
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15. well...
Edited on Thu Mar-25-10 04:01 PM by greencharlie
the sad thing is... the guy who called is probably contracted by the RNC and scrapes out 25K per year and probably supports Obama/HCR. It's just his job, man...
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mkultra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:13 PM
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18. 25K is not enough to be that heat shield
If he wants to work for satan, let him pay the price.
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avebury Donating Member (455 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:23 PM
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19. Wish they would call me
I would have told them that I don't support terrorist organizations!
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ncteechur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:24 PM
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20. I wish you wouldn't cloak your message so much. Just come out an say what you want to say.
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Tippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:27 PM
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21. Why didn't you tell him what you really think..? ..
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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:33 PM
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22. I would've offered my deepest condolonces...
THEN told him to go fuck himself.

KNR
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tabbycat31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:35 PM
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23. I wish they would call me
I'd ask them why they are giving domestic terrorists a platform for their thoughts and actions
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 04:59 PM
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25. Can I quote you?
The next time those assholes call me?
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mkultra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 12:15 PM
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35. you may
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 06:38 PM
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27. You are to nice!!! LOL
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political_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 06:47 PM
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28. Bravo!
Edited on Thu Mar-25-10 06:50 PM by political_Dem
I only wish those a-holes called me. I would have had plenty to say to those seditionists and barbarians.
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 07:10 PM
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29. Yeah, yeah whatever wimp. You
Edited on Thu Mar-25-10 07:20 PM by Guy Whitey Corngood
forgot to talk about how you wished he died of ass cancer while being disemboweled with a dull spoon. Then you move on to his family and how you're going to eat their livers with some fava beans and chianti.... no wait that's gay..... OK eat their livers with some grits and Wild Turkey. After that, you drool on your phone for 10 to 15 mins then run outside butt ass naked howling at the moon while rambling incoherently about the constitution and Jesus.

And that my friend is how any good god fearing man does it.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 01:35 AM
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30. well put
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LatteLibertine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 11:48 AM
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31. LMAO
Edited on Fri Mar-26-10 11:49 AM by LatteLibertine
I can't say I blame you. They disgust me as well.

I would have said, "You have the wrong number. I am proud Democrat with a Progressive orientation." *click*
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live love laugh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 02:37 PM
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32. That's hot. nt
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 11:00 PM
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34. I LOVE getting push-polls from Pubs! I tell them everything that's on my Dem mind while letting them
... think I am just a deeply disappointed Repub.

For awhile I got calls from some religious anti-abortion group and I put on my slightly-hick voice (you know the people on tv who always say they "feel so blessed" that their kid was only maimed for life and not killed in the train wreck? that one) -- and let 'er rip on the subject of how many abortions Planned Parenthood *prevents* by supplying contraceptives and accurate information. I preface by saying I am a praying woman. Well I am, I just don't say to WHOM.

:evilgrin:

Hekate has a sense of mischief sometimes.

Hekate

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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 12:36 PM
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36. A little harmless mischief is exactly what we should be doing with these calls.
Edited on Sat Mar-27-10 12:37 PM by calimary
Mainly - TIE THEM UP ON THE PHONE FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN STAND.

VERY civil. VERY "innocent." Keep them on the line. The longer they're stuck trying to explain themselves to you - like Clintonista2 describes upthread in post 26 - the better. That's fewer of their own ilk whom they can call and from whom they might be able to extract donations. The more you keep them tied up - AWAY from their objective (because they think they might be able to win you over or "educate" you as a "wavering 'republi-CON'" the better. REALLY like the idea of letting them run through their entire script (don't stop 'em - that's maybe when you can text somebody or go dry a dish or play with the cat or something) and then saying you don't quite understand and could they please go over that again? Or maybe could they go over that part about (fill in the blank here) just once more - 'cause you're not quite sure. That is BRILLIANT!!!! If you just hang up immediately or tell them off, they'll simply move on to the next call and eventually (probably sooner than later with the lists they're working with) find friendlier turf and a more open checkbook (we do NOT want this!!!!!).

Tie 'em up. Waste their time. Keep them from moving on to the next prospect who will likely be more receptive than you were. Rack up those minutes and grow that phone bill - THEY called YOU, after all.
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