Word: caller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roger Goldberger was relaxing at home after work when the phone rang. As soon as he answered, an unfamiliar voice blurted out a string of obscenities, then the caller hung up. Goldberger, a department-store manager in Harrisburg, Pa., calmly pressed *69 on his telephone, triggering an automatic return of the call. A phone rang; the same male voice answered. "You just called my house, and I don't appreciate what you said!" shouted Goldberger. The stunned teenager mumbled an apology and then asked, "How did you know it was me?" "It was easy," Goldberger replied. "My telephone is smarter...
Talbott said yesterday that BB&N officialsreceived an anonymous phone call last winter inwhich the caller suggested that Washburn mighthave engaged in sexual misconduct with students atthe school...
...other rooms, with equally quirky recordings, people phone only to hear the answer machine. Sometimes when Nick P. Davis '87 answers his phone, the caller says, "We just wanted to hear the message" and waits until Davis obligingly plays...
...everyone appreciates the tunes. Listening to a recording of a Beatles song, one caller hung up and said, "I prefer Bach," says Ned M. Seaton...
...callers began to speak, the recording interrupted with "what did you say your name was?" and another beep. Then the message requested the caller to "speak up and maybe a little louder," and again added a fake beep. It ended with "If you're not going to speak up you can just go"--another fake beep--"yourself," Siegal says...