I would like to take this opportunity to say, I DON'T LIVE IN NORTH DAKOTA ANYMORE! WOO-HOO!!

Also, John Hoeven is an asshat. Also, his wife's name is Mikey. Also, what kind of a dumbass governor sets up an emergency hotline and doesn't block all non-emergency calls?

"Would you like twisty bread with your anthrax?"

"will you like to try our double crust pizza? Its half off if you order now"
:::click:::

P.S. Whatever happened to Little Caesar's and the PIZZA PIZZA dude?

OMG LOL THAT IS SO FUNNAY OMG PIZZA A TELEMARKETER rofl lol omg 911 help HELP HELP, ambulance-police-lady !!-- there's a hole in my butt! Give me 500mg of ass-spackle with extra brickmason spatula!!

this proves it! no number is safe from telemarketers.

This article isn't very good. It doesn't even tell you if he ordered the pizzas!

You gotta love this one.

"Would you like some National Disaster Pizzas with some FEMA Rolls?"

People call and offer you pizza? I'm glad they've never called me. I would probably say yes. I have never heard of pizza telemarketers.

And also, this is the best reason to not have a home telephone. All I use is my cell phone, and I get no telemarketers.

I guess the gov. should've signed up for the North Dakota "NO CALL" list.

Trace the call, fark the caller, teach these asshats a lesson.

CruJones With Yahoo mail, I get NO junk mail except maybe 3 in the BULK folder a week.. and it's a free account!

Oh sure, he had a perfect opportunity to banish all telemaketers to the bottom of a frozen lake, and do everyone a favour, but does he do it?
Nooo

He gets some fancy blocking feature that the rest of us can't get.

/mini-rant

All i have is a cell phone, and you know what they do now? They fax my cell phone and leave fax messages in my voice mail advertising stupid crap

Wonder how many attemted secure connections are made to www.whitehouse.com or the ftp, if there is one?

Maybe this is why the FBI and the CIA and the rest of those snoopy clowns have such a hard time communicating?

*cough*

FOR JUSTICE!

how do you fax a cell phone?

/bewildered

WAKE UP PEOPLE!! there is no such thing as Pizza Telemarketers! this was a secret operation to mess up our national security done by a disguised Pizza man! OMG HELP!!

I hope more telemarketers spam farking senators and public officials though, maybe they'll make it illegal.

hmm.. a disguised pizza man would actually be just a pizza man wouldn't it? :|

Another missed opportunity! They could have declared telemarketers terrorists.

can't these guys take some freakin PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Instead they just go around blaming the pizza guy. Probably smoke pot too.

This qualified as "Strange News?"

What's strange about being annoyed by people trying to sell crap? Happens all the time where I live.

03-09-03 06:32:51 PM VwlssWndr
This qualified as "Strange News?"

hmmm.. but noone has ever tried to sell me pizza over the phone, or any other kinds of food for that matter - and I get shiat load of telemarketers here daily.

CruJones

You use your fax machine/computer to fax it. The number is the cell phone's number.

I'm with CruJones on this one.

I thought a fax by definition was a piece of paper that shat out of a machine. Unless you have a cute little printer attached to your cell phone, you couldn't technically get a "fax." SMS message, yes, but not a fax.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

"If Your Ambulance Isn't There Within 30 Minutes, Your Uneral Expenses Are Free!"

what do YOU want on your Tombstone?

"If Your Ambulance Isn't There Within 30 Minutes, Your Funeral Expenses Are Free!"

what do YOU want on your Tombstone?

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One of my friends works in Research and Development for a telephone company. Occasionally, he orders phone lines for test purposes -- just standard phone lines, fresh off the switch, unlisted, billed to the telco itself.

Almost immediately those lines start ringing with telemarketers.

"I WORK IN AN UNDERGROUND CONCRETE TEST LABORATORY FOR THE TELEPHONE COMPANY! I DON'T NEED NO FSCKING SIDING, ASSHATS."

I'm not at all surprised the Governor's Uber-Sekrit Terrorist Hotline of Doom is getting telemarketed... not in the least.

Heh...twice I got a call from Sprint trying to advertise something...both times I was playing WrestleMania X8 on GameCube...both time I just set the receiver down and went back to my game...hope they got an earful. :)

Yes, and some busty cuns.....

YeahRight...umm, why teach the caller a lesson; why not the person in charge of ordering/implementing the blocking ofnon-emergency calls?

LOL Helicopter7...

I dunno, do they do pizza-telemarketing in ND?

Thank you for calling the National Disaster Hotline.

For a weapons of mass destruction attack press 1.

For a natural disaster, press 2.

If you are a telemarketer selling pizzas, press 227435339345568934576392356284356105601256340762056106450431564756145691465914 651465141984354365763458642569485612956235643514576417516450714561094561984561 9285715614270956

For all other disasters, please hold and an operator will be with you shortly.

I lived in ND for most of my life, and I never got telemarketed by pizza places.

Although the last governor of ND does commercials for a pizza place in Fargo, so maybe it was just Xtreme Pizza offering Hoeven the Governor's Special (that's one of their pizzas).

They have pizza in North Dakota?

Yeah, but you have to eat it at the pizza place. Otherwise it freezes before you get it home.

"We're trying to figure out what kind of a disaster is taking place, and it's some guy trying to give the governor a two-for-one."

Something about this line cracks me up.

This is a step in the right direction. Once telemarketing becomes a hassle to government as much as it is to the rest of then then we'll see legislation that will actually do something about it.

From now on my phone number in all sorts of raffles and websites will be emergency services or my representative.

I had a pizza joint call me once, but it was a wrong number (apparently they were trying to reach an ex-employee).

DiCkGoZiNyA
"We're trying to figure out what kind of a disaster is taking place, and it's some guy trying to give the governor a two-for-one."

Something about this line cracks me up.

I'm with you on this one. Sounds a little kinky, doesn't it? :D

You would think that on Monday the first thing they would do is pass a no-call bill. Geez, if the Governor can't keep telemarketers off the National DISASTER Hotline....

NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM A TELEMARKETER - PASS THE WORD!!! IF IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING YOU MIGHT WANT TO BUY, HANG UP ON THE GUY AND ORDER IT DIRECT. WHEN THEY ASK YOU HOW YOU HEARD OF THEM, SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE NEWSPAPER.

it's all very well blocking the calls, but what if the national disaster starts in the pizz guys place!!!!