He is in the pit, with the snakes.

[tfabris]

We have caller ID display on the telephone handsets here at the brainpan. Frequently, we get calls where the caller ID simply displays "Toll Free", at which point we're pretty sure it's a telemarketing call.

Today, I got one such call, and instead of ignoring it and letting the phone ring, I answered it and started into the "hee ees een the pit, weeth the snakes" bit, just to see if it would work.

It got them off the phone quickly, but it didn't play out for very long. I was kind of disappointed. I wanted to do the whole thing. It is, however, satisfying, to get them to hang up on me, rather than the other way around.

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[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

The second-best telemarketer disturbance scheme I know of involved my father asking for credit cards that matched his wife's and daughter's eyes, in green and blue. She actually got her supervisor on the line before he gave up in "distress."

Telling the newspaper salesmen that you don't read, at all, is a pretty good one too.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I got a newspaper salesman to promise to print The Province in green ink just for me! I told him I'd pay for my subscription when my first all-green issue showed up, but alas, it never did.