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The Phone Message. " The Phone Message " is the ninth episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, and the fourth of the show's second season. [1] The episode concerns protagonist Jerry Seinfeld ( Jerry Seinfeld) dating a woman who likes a commercial for cotton Dockers he dislikes. Meanwhile, his friend George Costanza ( Jason Alexander) leaves an ...
Dial-a-joke. A dial-a-joke (or a joke line) is a telephone service that users can call to listen to previously recorded jokes. Jokes are recorded on an automatic answering machine. In the past, many jokes were recorded on cassette tape and then played sequentially, each caller hearing the next joke on the tape. Modern touch tone phones allow ...
Rejection hotline. A rejection hotline is a phone number which delivers a pre-recorded message telling the caller that the caller is rejected by the person who gave the caller that number. This project was set up as a practical joke by Jeff Goldblatt in 2001. [1] Goldblatt says that after observing an awkward situation where a man approached a ...
In a pre-recorded episode of The Russell Brand Show broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 18 October 2008, comedian Russell Brand and presenter Jonathan Ross made prank calls to actor Andrew Sachs that courted controversy in the United Kingdom. Brand and Ross called Sachs to interview him on air; when he did not answer, they left lewd messages on his ...
Funny Quotes. “My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.”. — Garry Shandling. “People can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys ...
Prank call. A prank call (also known as a crank call or a hoax call or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person answering. It is often a type of nuisance call. It can be illegal under certain circumstances. Recordings of prank phone calls became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette ...
ISBN. 9780786851966. OCLC. 61458359. It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. [1] Ned Vizzini later died by suicide [2] on December 19, 2013. The book received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the ...
Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.It tells the story of abrasive, selfish, young wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt (), who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed virtually all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant of whose ...