Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some callers don't "want to speak to us, but just want to hear the trivia question," says Augustin A. Paculdar '87-'88, whose rooming group tapes a different trivia question weekly. The answer is included on the next week's recording...
Callers to Arany's Currier room will hear "Surprise!" and a recording of a crowd of people singing "Happy Birthday," after which a voice tells callers to hang up because they are waiting for a phone call...
Some callers hear snatches of music on machines, from Madonna to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and even Paul Winter's whale music, a recording of a whale singing. One rooming group entertains callers with their own version of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; residents "chant-a-long" the message to the music, says Harry Chomsky...
...have a really good message, you'll get `I just called to hear your message,' "Fecher says...
Other messages can be downright annoying. One popular ploy to puzzle callers is recording a message saying "hello, hello? I can't hear you?" as though the speaker is actually on the other side of the phone...