School Answering Machine

[baregreg]

This is the message that the Maroochydore High School, Queensland, Australia, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephoneanswering machine.

This is the actual answering machine message for the school.
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[tiger79]

This is the message that the Maroochydore High School, Queensland, Australia, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephoneanswering machine.

This is the actual answering machine message for the school.
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[maliakei]

We know this is a joke! Although the public school system sure has changed over the last couple of decades, times were alot simpler before touch-tone telephones. Glad sis' & I went to school way back before automation. Technology can be a good thing, but in lots of ways it is an annoyance, time-consuming, and less personal. In some ways I miss my rotary telephone now..

[Fitz1980]

There's a police department one too. It was featured on an episode of "The Shield" with the cops sitting around listening to it and laughing. I couldn't find the video, but here's the text. It's from a season 3 episode called 'Riceburner.'

Hello, you've reached the Police Department's main switchboard. Please listen carefully to the following options. To be connected to a supervisor, because one of our jackass thugs mistreated you, and you want his ******* badge, press one.
If you committed a crime you think you can bull**** your way out of, press two.
If you're shirtless and threatening your girlfriend with a knife, and don't want one of our officers interfering with you your "love," press three.
To report an act of inter-racial profiling, put down your crack pipe and press four. If you can't locate one of your seven unsupervised, fatherless children, press five.