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• To help telecom-sters clarify just how humorous their postings are intended to be, here is a collection of the many faces of humor, emoticon-style.
  emoticon: n. a figure created with the symbols on a keyboard that is read with the head tilted to the left....
• Hi this is <name>. I'm sorry I can't answer the phone right now.
  Leave a message and then wait by the phone until I call you back....
• lt; Lick It...Stuff it in> <Lick it... Stuff it in> &l
  Lick it.. Stuff it in> As you can hear, John and Cathy are busy mailing letters, please leave a message at the ton....
• To the tune of "Heartbreak Hotel" with appropriate instrumental accompaniment) I just left home baby I'll be out fer a spell and if you don't leave a message baby you can go to &l
  BEEP>...
• Hello?" <pause for a few seconds> "Sorry, he's not here right now, but if you leave a message, he'll get back to you.
• ordinary message ending with a recorded BEEP and then silence for a few second
  HAHAHA Fooled you, here comes the real BEEP <real BEEP>...
• <<<<<<< It'll be in v1.2....I promise!!!! >>>>>>>
• A message from the depths of Hell!
• One voice: I didn't expect an answering machine. Another voice
  Nobody expects an answrering machine. Our chief use is to get your name....