When I was 11 or 12, I used my little brother’s Speak-and-Spell
to make obscene phone calls.
You know the toy that says the letter out load in a rather electronic robot
voice way when you press the letter.
For the obscene phone calls I would call up one of my Mom’s friend’s from her address book and do something like press the letter “O” repeatedly.
Electronic voice:”Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh…..”
Just like some pervert moaning.
Typical mom’s friend response: “Who is this? How did you get this number?” Click.
Great fun.
Sometimes I’d start with a little bit of playful banter before launching into the moaning.
Electronic voice:” U R A B U T…Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh…..”
May have to say that one out load slowly to get the electronic voice effect.
Sounds kind of like one of those guys who has smoked too much or been shot in the throat and has to use one of those electronic voicebox things to talk through his throat.
The great thing too was that even if this voice were ever caught on a recording the most they could do is arrest the guy who did the original letter recording for the toy at the Speak-and-Spell factory.
Now I’m older and a lot more mature.
Also, technologies have improved with caller ID and *69 capability.
It would be unwise to make such calls from work.
I’m reasonably safe looking and generally don’t look like I’d kill anybody,
so when I stop by a stranger’s house and ask them if I can use their phone because there’s been a terrible accident they usually comply.
Probably doesn’t hurt that I dress-up like a fireman when I make such visits.
People are always puzzled when they hear me making the call using a Speak-and-Spell, but I reassure them by telling them that I left my electronic voicebox back at the firestation.
Here’s a Speak-and-Spell emulator on line: http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/
See what creative ideas you can come up for phone calls and share as a comment.
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Who needs a “speak and spell”? I just use my uncle’s mechanical larynx. If they try to track me down, they’ll just think it was the singing cowboy from the truth campaign…or Optimus Prime.
I still remember when the Oxygen channel was relativley new they had an ad campaign where a bunch of celebrities, or other people hired by Oprah, just moaned “Oh!” in succession during a 30 sec spot to emphasize the first letter of the name. They even had a Oh! logo in the right hand corner of the screen.
I think they decided to use the full name Oxygen in the ads only after realizing the double entendre nature of Oh!
“Honey were you having an orgasm in the living room or were you just watching too much TV again?”