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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (97)	4/4/2002 7:03:31 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6346

I thank you for your generosity with the gifts, but they are wrapped in paper which says: The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please try the following: If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. Open the www.brycecanyoncountry.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Click the Back button to try another link. Click Search to look for information on the Internet. HTTP 404 - File not found Internet Explorer I do not wish to appear ungrateful, but may I ask that you return these prizes and come up with something a little more, er, substantial?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (97)	4/4/2002 11:24:27 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6346

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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (97)	4/4/2002 11:52:28 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6346

By the way, I have some excellent fundamental analysis. You remember how we first met, right? I started a thread to try and figure out what companies would be bought out and you PMed me and told me to forget it, it wouldn't work. You were right. Anyway, my phone went off today. I mean nothing, no dial tone, nothing. I could hear my own voice in the phone, so the phone worked. I plugged a different phone and it didn't work either. Then I checked to make absolutely sure I had paid the bill. I had. Then I walked across the street and axed to borrow their phone. And then I called Veri-zon Customer Service 800 number! I make a point to pronounce Verizon "VERY-zon" because that is what their logo makes it look like with the red "z". It looks like Veri zon. I want them all to know that they wasted their dough on the advertising firm that pulled that boner on them. But, I digress. After a very lengthy wait, during which I was informed that my call was very important to Veri-zon, and also that at the point at which some human being got on the other end of the phone line from across the street (I mean me across the street, not Veri-zon across the street) that my conversation with that other human might [might] be recorded for the purpose of maintaining the highest quality customer service. To which recording I thought to myself, "Self, if you were that important, you would not be on hold, dood. And the part about maintaining the highest quality of customer support, you can just forget about that part because you see, you are on hold, as it were. You are being hoodwinked by these people. This is trickery, pure and simple." Then I got a person who asked me what the trouble was. I said that my phone was dead and I wanted to do whatever I needed to do to get it turned back on. The person put me on hold. My musical reassuring messages were interrupted and I got another person. This person was the "repair" person. She axed me if I was sure it was not my phone. I said yes I was. She axed me if I had checked the plug with a different phone. I said yes I had. Then she axed me if I had checked the test plug inside the box in the outside back of the house. I said, "Uh, actually, no. No, I am sorry to report that I failed to check the test plug in the box in the outside back of the house. As a matter of fact, the thought did not even cross my mind about checking the test plug inside the box outside behind the house!" She said, "Ah!" I became alarmed. I said, "Have I done something wrong?" She said, "Oh, not at all. It's just that if the trouble is inside your house, then to get our Repair Team to look at the problem is $40.00. And if they fix something inside the house after they look for $40.00, then that is an additional $40.00." I said, "This sounds like my first marriage." But I got no snappy giggle or anything. I continued by axing what it was that she suggest I do. She said she wanted me to go out in the back yard and check the test plug. So I said, "Yes, all right, I will do that, but what will you do in the meantime?" She said she would hold if it was not going to take too long. I said it might be a few minutes, since I was calling from across the street because the phone in my house was dead. [drums and cymbal] Then she said, (and this is the good part, because I was waiting for it and was ready): "Ah! Well then, can you go check the test plug and then call me back?" And I said, "Now this is really really sounding like my first marriage. Let me just say this before I hang up. I called you because my phone is dead. I said I wanted to do whatever was necessary to get it fixed. The result of this conversation, which included some goofy music and some recorded announcements about how important my call was and how it might even be recorded for purposes of maintaining high quality, is that I am now to go across the street, find a screwdriver, troubleshoot the Veri-zon phone line and then trot smartly back across the street, ax to borrow the neighbor's phone again, and call you back and report the Test Results. Unfortunately, I am reluctant to do that now without compensation from Veri-zon. What are you willing to compensate me in exchange for doing this repair troubleshooting work for Veri-zon?" But then I hung up accidentally before she could answer. And then I went back across the street and shorted VZ. Pretty good investigative work on my part, yes?