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• Hello, this is Dr. Pangloss. If this were the best of all possible worlds, I could come to the phone right now, but I can't, so if you could leave your name and number.
  .....
• imitating Mr. Rogers] "Hello. I'm in the Magic Kingdom right now, so I can't come to the phone.
  Can you leave your name and number when you hear the sound of the tone?...
• Hello this is the (Last Name) residence, we're in the middle of a family fight right now.
  Leave your name a number at the beep and whichever one wins will call you right back....
• The Canonical List of Telephone Answering Machine Messages "Hi!
  I don't exist at the moment, but if you leave your message, name and number, I'll call you back when I am....
• My wife and I can't come to the phone right now, but if you'll leave your name and number we'll get back to you as soon as we're finished.
• The message I currently have on my recorder is the output from my Amiga's speech sythesizer.
  It's set up as a dialog between two distict, but recognizably artificial voices....
• Steve: Hello. Steve and Matt aren't here right now but if.
  .. Matt: Steve, what are you doing? Steve: I'm leaving a phone message since we aren't here....
• Hello, this is John's refrigerator, his answering machine's not working right now, so leave a name and number and we'll get back to you.
  (uses a back-woods slow drawl type voice)...
• One voice: I didn't expect an answering machine. Another voice
  Nobody expects an answrering machine. Our chief use is to get your name....