Get help NOW!!!

HERE ARE SOME TRICKS TO HELP YOU GET A REAL PERSON WHEN YOU'RE CALLING CUSTOMER SERVICE:

#1.) If you're having trouble getting through, try calling the Retentions Department, the New Service Department . . . or the Collections Department. Why?

--People in these departments tend to answer calls quickly. And when they transfer you to the department you actually need . . . you'll automatically jump to the head of the line.

#2.) If you get caught in a maze of computerized phone prompts, hit "zero", the "star button" or the "pound sign" over and over . . . and you'll probably be routed directly to an operator.

#3.) Learn to speak Spanish. Why? Because the Spanish option usually has shorter wait times . . . and your operator will probably be bilingual anyway.

#4.) Mumble or speak nonsense. The logic is that if the voice robot on the other end of the line can't understand you . . . it'll be forced to transfer you to an actual person.

#5.) Some Interactive Voice Response systems are programmed to put anyone who uses PROFANITY at the front of the line . . . so you might want to try cursing.

#6.) Many companies allow customers to schedule a customer-service call time on their website . . . so you won't have to wait on hold. And if your problem isn't urgent, you might consider sending an email instead of calling on the phone.


#7.) Or just don't pay your bill. That way, the company will call YOU.


(Voip News)

Is that a hopscotch on your roof? Or are you just happy to see me?

Roof Prank
A student made a secret addition to his family's mansion home - by painting a 60ft penis on the roof. Andy and Clare McInnes were delighted when builders finished the new flat roof on their $2 million house. But it gave their son Rory, 18, who had just watched a documentary about Google Earth, an idea to make the property stand out. He grabbed some white paint and climbed up to the roof, where he spent half an hour reproducing a giant penis! For the next 12 months only Rory knew about the giant manhood on the roof near Hungerford, Berks, but his secret was out when a helicopter pilot spotted it. McInnes a company director, initially thought it was a wind-up when The Sun contacted him about the painting. He said: "It's an April Fool's joke, right. There's no way there's a 60ft phallus on top of my house." McInnes then spoke to all four of his children. When he phoned Rory, who's in Brazil , he burst out laughing, and said: "Oh, you've found it then!" He added: "When Rory gets home he will be given a scrubbing brush and white spirit and he can go and scrub it off."

I received this e-mail today and thought it would be a good idea to get behind one of our students from Wisconsin. Pittsville is located in Central Wisconsin, not far from Wisconsin Rapids and Marshfield. Please do me a favor and cast for vote for Colleen!

Rick


Good Afternoon! My name is Kris Doering; I am the head of the Pittsville School District Art Department. My students participated in the Heinz Ketchup Creativity Contest to design a ketchup packet. Heinz called me last Wednesday and out of 45,000 entries one of my second grade students, Colleen Lassa, was selected as a finalist by the artist Burton Morris. The public will selected the winner through online voting March 20th through March 25th @ http://www.ketchupcreativity.com/voting.aspx. Her design is a ketchup bottle swinging on a swing. If her design wins she will receive $1000, I will receive $1000 in art supplies, the kitchen will receive $1000 in ketchup, the design will be printed on 200 million ketchup packets, and the design will be made into a poster to hang at our school. The state of Wisconsin has never won this contest. Please vote and have everybody you know vote. Seeing how Pittsville is the smallest city in the center of Wisconsin, Colleen’s design would not be able to compete with the other finalist from larger cities without your help. I would deeply appreciate it if you would help publicize this on you radio station, and encourage your listener to vote online between March 20th and March 25th. Adding the link to your webpage would make the website accessible to your listeners.


Thank you,
Kris Doering
Pittsville Art Department
5459 Elementary Ave.
Pittsville, WI 54466

Airpod car

Here is a story from the website switched.com. This thing sounds pretty cool. It does not look as cool as the Tesla but at two bucks every 62 miles it is a bargin!

RA

While outfits like Lightning and Tesla are attempting to make eco-friendly cars sexy, MDI is taking things in a completely different direction. The recently-made-official Airpod looks practically nothing like anything seen on American roadways today, which is probably why it's apt to hit the streets of France and New Zealand first. The oddly shaped automobile will reportedly reach a top speed of 70kmh (44mph) and cruise 100-kilometers (62 miles) on just $2. The secret? A minuscule compressed air-powered engine on each of the rear wheels, both of which get instructed by the car's joystick (Atari fans, rejoice!). We're told that reloading the engine with hot air takes less than two minutes, and if all goes well, the first of the urban vehicles will hit the cobblestones in the spring of 2009. Is that the sound of Tata's NANO feeling threatened, or what? [Via EcoGeek]

Largest Stingray caught!

A BRITISH GUY CAUGHT A 771-POUND FRESHWATER STINGRAY:

Recently, 45-year-old Ian Welch of Aldershot, England (--about 40 miles southwest of London), was in Thailand to help with a fish tagging program . . . when he reeled in a stingray that turned out to be the BIGGEST FRESHWATER FISH ever caught.

--Check out the specs on Ian's behemoth catch . . .

--The stingray weighed 771 POUNDS. That's 125 pounds heavier than the previous record-holder, a 646-pound catfish caught in 2005 . . . and it's even heavier than a typical silverback gorilla. (!!!)

--The stingray was seven-feet long by seven-feet wide . . . plus a ten-foot tail.

--It took 13 men a total of 90 minutes to hoist the fish onto the boat.

--According to Ian, the stingray, quote, "dragged me across the boat and would have pulled me into [the water] had my colleague not grabbed my trousers. It was like the whole earth had just moved. I knew it was going to be a big one."


(Sun)