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Its 16 tracks pinball between answering-machine messages New Orleans Saint Usama Young says hi!
Album review: RA the MC, "Victory Lap" Allison Stewart 2011
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Its 16 tracks pinball between answering-machine messages New Orleans Saint Usama Young says hi!
RA the MC's 'Victory Lap': There's filler but also sweet beats on latest Post 2011
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*** The Madoff/New York Mets saga has inspired traders to dream up a new answering-machine message for Citi Field: Hi!
Overheard 2011
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Google Voice -- the call-management/answering-machine/Internet-dialing service that Google launched as a closed preview in March 2009, about two years after buying a service then called GrandCentral -- is now open for anybody in the United States to try.
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Google Voice -- the call-management/answering-machine/Internet-dialing service that Google launched as a closed preview in March 2009, about two years after buying a service then called GrandCentral -- is now open for anybody in the United States to try.
Faster Forward: Google Voice now open to all in the U.S. 2010
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Isidro Chavez alleged that a real-estate agent working for the company threatened in an answering-machine message to evict him unless he agreed that day to a cash-for-keys offer or to buy the house.
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But the one that I thought worked pretty well was The Rockford Files: with just the answering-machine message followed by the last few notes of the theme song, it has the most important part of the intro intact and still has musical punctuation for the joke.
Shorter Main Titles (No, This Isn't a "Shorter..." Post, It's Really About Making Things Shorter) Jaime J. Weinman 2009
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USA Today editorCesar Soriano, after finding that he had published items that were sent out as part of an April Fools 'gag by Grist, an online magazine affiliated with the Earth Day Network "They can land a man on the moon, but they can't get their answering-machine message right."
Perspectives 2008
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He kept getting his answering-machine message, which included stock tips.
Money's Loud Voice 2008
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From an upstairs bedroom, he fetched answering-machine tapes full of praise, damnation and physical threats.
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