Re: Chimps outsmart college students

peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Anim8rFSK wrote:
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>> In article <xX8dj.3068$NL5.473@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>Merrick Baldelli wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:29:05 GMT, peachy a****e passion
>>>><exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Give us your phone numbers and we'll see if we can't come up
>>>>>>>> with something.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, there's a technique nobody's ever tried on ME before.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>	*laughing*  I actually had (404) GET-BENT for a number.  My
>>>>>>friend Janelle had 333-****.  The calls she used to get at 3 in the
>>>>>> morning on weekends were priceless.  
>>>>>
>>>>>  It'd be fun except they are all likely to be from underage males. 
Bleh!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>	Well, now..  But this was back in the 80s, and adults did make
>>>>such calls more routinely...  Now?  The adults are like the kids and
>>>>trying to find a mark on the Internet.
>>>>
>>>
>>>     ROFL - I don't think I knew adults ever made those calls.
>>
>>
>> A friend of mine's older brother moved to Germany as an adult in the
>> 70s, to make a bunch of money, and he and his roommate used to have
>> parties where everybody would get sh*tfaced and dial the prefix for
>> Japan and then start punching buttons until they'd hear a voice on
>> the other end of the line going 'herro herro herro' and laugh
>> hysterically, hang up, repeat, and the next month wonder why they'd
>> get $500 phone bills.
>>
>
>     That's just... well, seriously pathetic.


Well, that happens when you give Americans access to German beer. 

On a more serious side: Why would a Japanese say "Herro" on the phone?
Don't they usually say "moshe moshe" or something like that?