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Somebody called me from Canada last night. They are going to be sending me a DVD of some comedy pilot to watch next week.

That's very cool, as long as they didn't ask for your social security and bank account numbers.

Seriously, Keep us posted as to what it's about.

Wasn't me.

I knew that it had to be some sort of telemarketer, but since they were calling from Canada, I was polite.

The woman that I was talking to had the most delightful accent.

Did you give saucy your phone number?

I still want to know why no one cares about me and my opinion and my money and asking me for help.

peacock2121 wrote:I still want to know why no one cares about me and my opinion and my money and asking me for help.

You know, it really sounds like you want to be placed on those spam lists. That's easy to do, but I wouldn't recommend it.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I still want to know why no one cares about me and my opinion and my money and asking me for help.

You know, it really sounds like you want to be placed on those spam lists. That's easy to do, but I wouldn't recommend it.

I don't really want to be, I just want to know why I am not.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Somebody called me from Canada last night. They are going to be sending me a DVD of some comedy pilot to watch next week.

I did one of those once, about 3 or 4 years ago. The pilot was awful, a show that would never be seen, one that I was surprised even got on tape. What they wanted to know was my reactions to the commercials. Excedrin, IIRC.

Rexer25 wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Somebody called me from Canada last night. They are going to be sending me a DVD of some comedy pilot to watch next week.

I did one of those once, about 3 or 4 years ago. The pilot was awful, a show that would never be seen, one that I was surprised even got on tape. What they wanted to know was my reactions to the commercials. Excedrin, IIRC.

That is an interesting set up.

I was at a craft show once. These people asked me to watch a video about some car. I did. Then I answered some questions about the video and the car. Then they asked about a Denny's kinda restaraunt. I think that is what it was about and they did the car video thing to have me be free to answer the questions they really wanted answered.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I still want to know why no one cares about me and my opinion and my money and asking me for help.

You know, it really sounds like you want to be placed on those spam lists. That's easy to do, but I wouldn't recommend it.

I think that if you wrote back to one of the spam letters that we posted, they would certainly write back to you and probably sell your name to a mailing list.

peacock2121 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Somebody called me from Canada last night. They are going to be sending me a DVD of some comedy pilot to watch next week.

I did one of those once, about 3 or 4 years ago. The pilot was awful, a show that would never be seen, one that I was surprised even got on tape. What they wanted to know was my reactions to the commercials. Excedrin, IIRC.

That is an interesting set up.

I was at a craft show once. These people asked me to watch a video about some car. I did. Then I answered some questions about the video and the car. Then they asked about a Denny's kinda restaraunt. I think that is what it was about and they did the car video thing to have me be free to answer the questions they really wanted answered.

Sheesh!

A couple weeks ago, I got called for a survey. It became apparent from the questions that this was about a patent lawsuit somebody has against Cornell (Do I know anyone on this long list of names which included Cornell administrators, etc.) The guy conducting the interview denied that he was trying to find sympathetic jurors (I had to answer an official jury eligibility survey not too long ago, so I think my turn is coming again). If that was true, he was certainly trying to gauge local opinion in connection to that.

And it so happened that the topic reminded me of a lawsuit this company is involved in, so I became uncomfortable answering vague hypotheticals and terminated the interview.

But with only mild prejudice.

Those Video Surveys can be fun. I got to Review HBO's Lucky Louie before it was put on their schedule 2 years ago. I kind of liked the Pilot and then I tried to que it up again for Mrs. DS and discovered that the DVD had selfdestructed. "Good morning Mr. Phelps".

peacock2121 wrote:I still want to know why no one cares about me and my opinion and my money and asking me for help.

They can't find you - a good thing about living in the sticks (or is it the boondocks?)

At least you're not in Podunkville.

dodgersteve182 wrote:Those Video Surveys can be fun. I got to Review HBO's Lucky Louie before it was put on their schedule 2 years ago. I kind of liked the Pilot and then I tried to que it up again for Mrs. DS and discovered that the DVD had selfdestructed. "Good morning Mr. Phelps".

That's very interesting. I will have to make sure that everyone watches the DVD at the same time.

gotribego26 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I still want to know why no one cares about me and my opinion and my money and asking me for help.

They can't find you - a good thing about living in the sticks (or is it the boondocks?)

At least you're not in Podunkville.

Poughtown, Standstillville, Pine Box.

"Some" just call it a whole lot of white space on the map.

I got the pilot to "Prison Break". I never watched it nor have I watched the show since it has been on TV.