Hello From WiredTiger

[WiredTiger]

1. Your real first name
2. Your favorite baseball team
3. How you found the NetShrine Discussion Forum
4. What you enjoy most about the forum
5. State something else about yourself (job, hobbies, school, etc.) which is not the same as the 1st four items above.


1. Glen
2. Detroit Tigers (Yikes!)
3. Through Lee Sinnis' emails via Peter Gammons
4. The intelligent baseball talk. It is rare to find a group of minds as collectively intelligent as this one.
5. I am an internet programmer by trade. I am a huge sports fan and participant. Soccer and basketball have been scrapped due to bad knees but I still enjoy softball and golf.

[Max Power]

I have to ask this - - formally, my name is spelt "Stephen" - but, I use "Steve" and when people see it sometimes as "Stephen" they kinda spaz on the spelling of it - - - which has lead to a fancination of naming spelling and peoples issues with it - -

the "Cathy" group seems to be the most impacted - - Is it a "K" or a "C" is it short for Katherine, or Kathleen, etc. And, just about every "Cathy" I know gets pissed if you call them the wrong thing or spell it the wrong way.

Anyway, back to Tiger - - your name is "Glen" - - anyone ever try and spell it "Glenn" on you? Bother you? No issue with it?

All asked in the continution of my asciniation with the name spelling thing.

[moose]

I often get tobey or tobi or even tobie

[also, my real name is tobias. you'd be surprised how many people mispronounce it. especially telemarketers - then again, if they didn't use "tobias" in the first place, how would I know they were telemarketers? :)]

[WiredTiger]

Originally posted by Max Power

Anyway, back to Tiger - - your name is "Glen" - - anyone ever try and spell it "Glenn" on you? Bother you? No issue with it?

All asked in the continution of my asciniation with the name spelling thing.
I do get Glenn all the time.

It doesn't really bother me too much since I get the wrong spelling all the time.

It was my grandfather's name and they didn't like the Irish spelling I guess. When it got passed to me my parents just kept the spelling.

PS
It's hard to get used to your new nomenclature. Max Power doesn't register in my mind as you yet.

[Skip]

The first thing I tell every class is that I am Skip, not Skipper, not The Skipper, not Skippy, not Skippy Peanut Butter, not Skip-to-my-Lou, and not Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Either cracks them up or throws them off completely. Heh Heh.

[Max Power]

Originally posted by moose
my real name is tobias. you'd be surprised how many people mispronounce it. especially telemarketers - then again, if they didn't use "tobias" in the first place, how would I know they were telemarketers?

Next time they call and say "Good evening, Tobias?" you should reply with "Sure, any night is good, how much do you want for your ass?" and then hang up.

[Max Power]

Originally posted by WiredTiger
It's hard to get used to your new nomenclature. Max Power doesn't register in my mind as you yet.

By the time it does, I'll be off to the next one probably - don't kill yourself. ;)

[moose]

Originally posted by Max Power


Next time they call and say "Good evening, Tobias?" you should reply with "Sure, any night is good, how much do you want for your ass?" and then hang up.
no and then, after someone badgers me about a credit card and I keep saying no, i finally say "ok" and let them take me through the whole thing.

then when they say, "ok, sir, all I need is your social security number to authorize this," I refuse. They hate that. But, as I always explain, if I say no three times, I don't expect to be asked a fourth... :D

[Skip]

:D :D I've done that exact thing. Also with mortgage/refinancing companies.

[WiredTiger]

I have always wanted to try Jerry Seinfeld's way of getting rid of phone solictors. Paraphrasing...
"I'm busy right now, why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you at home."

"I don't like being bothered when I am at home"

"Exactly"

[nyy26wc]

I've been known to make some pretty obscene remarks to unsolicited phone calls, most of which aren't appropriate for a family forum like this.

[WiredTiger]

The only problem is that your not usually dealing with the sharpest minds. A lot of the humor is lost in the translation.

[hmrsf]

Telemarketers are always looking for my husband. I usually tell them he is dead and fake crying.

They feel really uncomfortable and take him off the list.:stinker:

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by WiredTiger

I do get Glenn all the time.

It doesn't really bother me too much since I get the wrong spelling all the time.



The Coen Brothers spelled their infamous character in "Raising Arizona" Glen.


Say that reminds me....

[nyy26wc]

Originally posted by hmrsf
Telemarketers are always looking for my husband. I usually tell them he is dead and fake crying.

They feel really uncomfortable and take him off the list.:stinker:

The line in my room is unlisted, so nobody specifically asks for anybody by first name. But, I have frequently told telemarketers that the man of the house was dead. I've also told them I just got back him his funeral and I've never seen so much celebrating at a single party before.

Also, if someone dials the wrong number, there's also likely to be told the person they're looking for is dead.

[moose]

Originally posted by nyy26wc
Also, if someone dials the wrong number, there's also likely to be told the person they're looking for is dead.
you mean cousin timmy is alive?!

[hmrsf]

OMG Lee, you are as twisted as I am. No wonder we get along so well.


WiredT, sorry your thread has been highjacked.


In this forum we can get off topic and like it!!!:D


Would not be right unless you told us what you do to torment telemarkets. SPILL, WT!!:whip:

[WiredTiger]

I have caller ID and that seems to work pretty well. If I do get a telemarketer and I feel like messing with them, I ask what the deal is and then just put down the phone and let them talk. It's amazing how long they go without realizing their isn't someone there.