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Don Chisholm's avatar

>who is paying money to a phone line to be insulted?

So.... back around '86 or so I was in high school and home sick. For some reason I was getting calls from random weirdos all day, and since I was a LOT less patient back then I'd let them know how I felt about their calls. Quite vociferously. Couldn't figure out why I was getting these calls until I went back to school and found a "Dial Abuse" card with my number on it. A friend made them and as passing them around the school. So yeah, for a limited time folks could have had this for free....

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Retroist's avatar

Your friend is a jerk, but you gotta admire that level of creativity. Not sure I would be able to match that prank.

Were you in some sort of prank war or was this just the normal? (I had some friends where this sort of stuff was how we interacted)

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Don Chisholm's avatar

Well.... this is just how he is. He does standup and some acting now. (Go fig.) He did sorta make it up a month later. I had an extra copy of Grimjack #1 he coveted and I offered to trade it for 50 souls. So he went around the school and got 50 (55 after removing the jokesters) people to sign their souls over to me. (This was years before the Simpsons episode.)

If there is an afterlife, I may have some explaining to do....

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