Random thought for the day

Gwolf said:

Don't sound much like Simon and Garfunkel, but not bad. I have heard worse trying to sing it.

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I really like Pentatonix, but that arrangement just does not match the song. Not one little bit. I like this one a lot better:

Anyone can listen to whatever version they like. On most songs that were released while I was in high school or soon after, I prefer the original version that was being played on all the AM popular music stations at that time and performed by the artist who wrote the song. Just something more familiar about them and they are connected with memories from a earlier time. I was not in the United States from 1970 - 1973 and most of that time only had access to Armed Forces Network or recorded music. The version playing back then was one of the few connections we had to where we were from. Particularly true of some rock music that was banned by Armed Forces Network and somebody would get a copy in the mail from home. Those were copied a hundred times and passed around. The only other place we could hear banned music was from Hanoi Hannah broadcasting from Radio Hanoi. There was no such thing as the World Wide Web or Satellite TV. On the long over water flights, mostly at night, you could pick up many foreign broadcasting stations playing the popular American or British music. From 10,000 plus feet in the sky the navigator could lock on to a station broadcasting American or British music and route it through the intercom to make the hours just burning fuel less boring.

RogerC60 said:

I really like Pentatonix, but that arrangement just does not match the song. Not one little bit. I like this one a lot better:

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I really like Disturbed's version of this song, but I'm a lifelong metal-head.

Gwolf said:

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Great choice of background

Cobranut said:

I really like Disturbed's version of this song, but I'm a lifelong metal-head.

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I think that the original is the BEST.

Yeah, that is supposed to be a joke, but it is not all that funny. Nobody is supposed to record your phone calls without your knowledge, so the recording gives you a load of horse crap for a reason to record, and if you want to complete the call, you have to accept their meadow muffins.

Don't really matter to me. I was denied access to a store manager and they hung up on me, left me on hold for long time and other crap. I didn't have a bit of trouble getting somebody to listen to me at the Southeastern Regional Office up in Atlanta, Georgia. They took my complaint and asked if I wanted to remain anonymous. I told I didn't care one way or the other, because I wasn't afraid of them nor their local store. I gave them my name right there. The local store had corrected their on line website and changed the phone practices within a week of the call to Atlanta.

Maybe they did use my phone call for training purposes.

Or is it possible that I completely misunderstood what they was going to use my recorded phone call for?

Gwolf said:

Yeah, that is supposed to be a joke, but it is not all that funny. Nobody is supposed to record your phone calls without your knowledge, so the recording gives you a load of horse crap for a reason to record, and if you want to complete the call, you have to accept their meadow muffins.

Don't really matter to me. I was denied access to a store manager and they hung up on me, left me on hold for long time and other crap. I didn't have a bit of trouble getting somebody to listen to me at the Southeastern Regional Office up in Atlanta, Georgia. They took my complaint and asked if I wanted to remain anonymous. I told I didn't care one way or the other, because I wasn't afraid of them nor their local store. I gave them my name right there. The local store had corrected their on line website and changed the phone practices within a week of the call to Atlanta.

Maybe they did use my phone call for training purposes.

Or is it possible that I completely misunderstood what they was going to use my recorded phone call for?
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Actually, in many states, including mine, only one party needs to be notified that their call is being recorded.
As long as they're in one of those states, they really are not obligated to tell you they're recording the calls.

Cobranut said:

Actually, in many states, including mine, only one party needs to be notified that their call is being recorded.
As long as they're in one of those states, they really are not obligated to tell you they're recording the calls.

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But do they have any place in your state where they are Training Porpoises.
Lotsa places in my state where that is going on.

SeaWorld Orlando, Miami Seaquarium, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park, and Theater of the Sea. Some smaller centers, like the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet, also have marine shows.

I have been to that place in the Florida Keys where they have the wild dolphin shows. They got a big natural inlet where the water from the Gulf makes a large pool in the island. It is connected to the Gulf and never closed off. The wild dolphins swim in there and do shows for the tourists. They are paid off with buckets of fresh fish. The shows are on a regular schedule and the wild dolphins know exactly when they can go to the little inlet, jump up and do a few flips, or dance on their tails to get food.

Meanwhile, back to "Beyond The Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummings.

Gwolf said:

Yeah, that is supposed to be a joke, but it is not all that funny. Nobody is supposed to record your phone calls without your knowledge, so the recording gives you a load of horse crap for a reason to record, and if you want to complete the call, you have to accept their meadow muffins.

Don't really matter to me. I was denied access to a store manager and they hung up on me, left me on hold for long time and other crap. I didn't have a bit of trouble getting somebody to listen to me at the Southeastern Regional Office up in Atlanta, Georgia. They took my complaint and asked if I wanted to remain anonymous. I told I didn't care one way or the other, because I wasn't afraid of them nor their local store. I gave them my name right there. The local store had corrected their on line website and changed the phone practices within a week of the call to Atlanta.

Maybe they did use my phone call for training purposes.

Or is it possible that I completely misunderstood what they was going to use my recorded phone call for?
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Just last week, a caller told me he was recording the call for "training" purposes. I said: "That's ok 'cause I'm recording you too!"

Why not tell the caller to hang up and have a 'trained' agent call back?