June 10, 2003

We're the Phone Company

I've always loved this Lily Tomlin sketch from Saturday Night Live, perhaps because I've worked in the industry for (mumble) years. Every so often I'll trot it out when the opportunity arises - or indeed for no reason at all.

Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year, serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make. We don't care. Watch this -- just lost Peoria. You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.

Posted by Pixy Misa at June 10, 2003 02:53 AM | TrackBack
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LOL--that reminds me of the old James Coburn movie called The President's Analyst, where the phone company was the evil bad guy.

Posted by: Susie at June 10, 2003 02:32 PM

I do hope you do not work for Valor Telecom. Oh wait, if you had to mumble the years, I am sure you are not working for this upstart third-world phone company.

Posted by: Tiger at June 11, 2003 01:38 PM

I've never heard of Valor Telecom - and by the sound of things I should be thankful. I live in Australia, which might explain this.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 11, 2003 06:52 PM
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