Almost normal again.

[Perry Rose]

For the last six weeks I haven't had a robo call. I just had one for the medical alert thingy. $400.00 value for free. You only pay $39.90 per month. After about 5 minutes of this at the "lets get you signed up" phase I gave them the "I'm not interested" and hung up. I missed torturing those people.  On top of that I got a message that the batteries I ordered March 31 have left Hong Kong. It don't get any better than that.

[Steve Helmick]

I just lay the phone down and let them keep talking. When it starts beeping, I hang it up. It's pretty rude of them to use the phone I pay for to try to sell me chit and make their living with it. Sometimes, I press the number to talk to a real person and start to tell them to take my number off their list and don't bother ever calling me again...they seldom wait for me to finish, which I think is rude as hell.  Steve

[Andre Ming]

Mar-SOO-see?

[pmackenzie]

Mar-SOO-see?

Mar - koo - chee ?

(I cheated on the koo, googled it )

[Andre Ming]

I'll bet you're right, Pmac.

[Dan McEntee]

I love it when they try to say my last name. I tell them no one by that name lives here....

      Like you, I have probably had my last named butchered more ways than what seem possible. What people some times say doesn't even match the letters that you can see! Like Marcucci, it is pronounced the what it's spelled, Mac-En-Tee!! What is so hard about that? I have never heard anyone mispronouncing McDonald's!

  And it like my Daddy done always say, "I doesn't cares what ya call me, as long as ya doesn't call me late for supper!"

   Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee

[John McFayden]

Dan, it must be the Mc that is the issue. I am 65 now and no one has ever said my name correctly when they first addressed me, from grade one until now. McFayden. Like Dan said, three syllables. Mc Fay Den. Seems easy to me but .....

Even better is how they write it after they hear it.

[Tim Wescott]

My nephew's script, when he was 12 or so, was:

"Oh, you need to talk to my dad.  I'll go get him."

(Holding the phone away from his face and shouting) "Dad?  Dad!  Where are you?  Are you in the garage?"

"OH MY GOD!! DAD!!  OH GOD THE BLOOD!  DAD!! DAD!!"  (hang up).

[John Rist]

I would thing ROBO calls would go away because I would think they don't work.  I guess I underestimate how many stupid people are in this country.   

[john e. holliday]

My cell phone rings and I answer.  If no ID I hang it up.  Most times after answering I just put it back in my pocket.

[Larry Renger]

Try Ranger, Wrenger, Ringer, and a few other mangled versions. 😥

[pmackenzie]

In my head I have always thought it would be pronounced "Wren-grrr"

I don't know if anyone recalls the US  Olympic marathon runner, Joan Benoit. She pronounced her last name "ben - oh - eat"
But it is clearly a French name and  it should be pronounced ben-wah. But lots of examples of mangled pronunciation of French words, even here in Canada where we should know better.

[Mike Scholtes]

An English family of my acquaintance is named "Belvoir." They insist it is pronounced "Beaver." Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch with Graham Chapman waiting for his name to be called at the doctor's office. They call out, "Luxury Yacht, Mister Luxury Yacht?" Chapman pops up and says, "Oh, its SPELLED "Luxury Yacht" but its PRONOUNCED "Throatwarbler Mangrove."