dave1949
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Karen? What happened to Amy? :laughing:
Weird Telephone Call
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Karen? What happened to Amy? :laughing:
Welshman
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Funny you mentioned that. My sister was just hear and corrected me - it was "Rachel".
dave1949
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Yep, I've heard from Rachael too. :laughing:
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2LaneCruzer
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Don't understand the VOIP part, but our phone is part of a bundle with Cox Cable...Internet, Cable TV and telephone.
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2LaneCruzer
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He's probably still using a "party line"
We finally got rid of the party line. That was our entertainment before we got our new fangled TV; I really miss it and the alcoholic, bipolar English language expletive deleted expert who thought he had priority over the rest of us.
Bundled with cable, it will be VOIP based.
Voice over IP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I was just curious..... while hackable, old school telco systems and software were pretty bulletproof (in some cases, literally)....... about how hardened these VOIP applications are.
As long as you aren't losing arguments with yourself on the other end of the phone
I wouldn't worry too much....Rgds, D.
kcflhrc
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I guess I'll weigh in here, being a phone man for 35 years. It could have been a telephone tech testing your number, dialing a code and having it ring back to him. People can make their caller ID say what ever they want with the right equipment. My test gear allows me to do all of this. Power outages have nothing to do with your phone unless your local phone in your house requires electricity like a cordless phone. Electrical outages and phone outages have nothing to do with each other. Now all this is based on a typical land line from your local telephone company. Cable companies and the like run your TV, Internet and phone all over one high speed data connection, data is all IP based, VOIP is Voice over IP, meaning your voice is translated to a bit stream of 1's and 0's and then assembled back at the far end buy another piece of equipment to turn it into voice again. Kinda complicated but that's the dime store version.
That does sound way more innarresting than what's on TV these daze.....
With the right representation, we could probably get that guy a network deal..... you might have a winner there !
Rgds, D.
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2LaneCruzer
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Hah. Sharn Jean reported him to the telephone company, and they told him that any further reports of profanity and they would revoke his telephone privileges. I think he was so humiliated that he O.D.'d on Lithium...or maybe Thorazine.
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It's okay to talk to yourself. It's even okay to argue with yourself. The real problem is when you lose the argument!
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Thats the truth!
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2LaneCruzer
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That would about do it for me; I've had a couple "Twilight Zone" moments!
TCJatko
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Back in the early 70's I could dial a certain 4 dig.number and quickly hang up, The phone would ring back, Drove my sister crazy:confused2: I don't remember if I ever told her about that trick
good thing for me wasn't a caller ID back then
That's interesting. I remember back in the very early seventies, the wife and I lived in an apartment about a quarter mile away from my father-in-law's place, but somehow he (local volunteer fire chief) was able to get us an extension on his line to take calls for local fire (outdoor burning) permits. As I recall, you could hang up the line, dial a four-digit number, and it would ring again so we could answer it. Probably not possible these days.
oldpilgrim
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I could have written that post two weeks ago, except for the storm part.
We have VOIP with Comcast.
It is puzzling.
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The same thing just happened to me.
And the very next thread I open is this one! Talk about timing.
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Verifying billing!:laughing:
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Next time, go ahead and pretend that you're answering the call. Open your eyes really wide, drop your jaw, and in a subdued little voice say, "You were partially right dear. It is God calling, but it's for you!"
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Same thing has happened to us too on Comcast VOIP in the last two weeks.
Same lightning story when growing up in PA in the late 60s - stone farmhouse, my dad was on the phone in the kitchen, yes party line, and lighting hit nearby and almost knocked him down - never again would we answer a phone during a thunderstorm.
Same lightning story when growing up in PA in the late 60s - stone farmhouse, my dad was on the phone in the kitchen, yes party line, and lighting hit nearby and almost knocked him down - never again would we answer a phone during a thunderstorm.
