Always worried me that phrase!
Anyway, our school runs on a series of internal phones 📱
Anyone got any good answering ideas?
Today I've used 'Baton Rouge Morgue' and 'Gamma quadrant', yesterday was 'Ecuadorian Embassy'!
"How did you get this number? Please remain where you are! Special Branch will be with you shortly." .... no? ... yeah, maybe not! :D
I have an infernal phone. It keeps butt dialing people and taking lop-sided pictures of the carpet. Oh! wait! Never mind.
I tend to use the proper "ahoy-hoy!" if I'm in a good mood, and just my surname if I'm not.
That way, people know what they're getting.
"Strategic missile command, please enter coordinates and authorisation code." :d :d
Cheers - Phil.
(Thanks for the prezzie, Nobby.....I'll bung you a proper mail a bit later.)
Our senior tech used to always answer "This is the war office, who wants a fight?"
"Battersea Dogs Home, woof woof!"
"Charlie's Crematorium, you kill 'em, we grill 'em!"
'Speak, you phoned me!'
MickS
"Ah, Sturmbannfuehrer!"
good ones !
I sometimes use : "Vatican Sports Service, Hello ?" ( in french of course, but ... I may try it in english ..)
"erectile dysfunction clinic"
"Vajazzles are us"
"London Zoo, Geoffrey the giraffe speaking"
"Broadmoor psychopath ward"
Since I work in a lower school, with several members of staff who used to work as ZSL Whipsnade, three could be a enormous laugh!
"Nigerian claim line .. please hold ..."
"Hello, I'm glad I got through, I've been holding for ages, could you help me with my computer there a red light that ..."
"Before your call, I deign to hear,
a question you must answer,
upon which tank would you bank,
a Sherman or a Panther?"
Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 February 2017, 07:59:03 PM
Since I work in a lower school, with several members of staff who used to work as ZSL Whipsnade, three could be a enormous laugh!
Whoops I forgot you were a Schoolteacher - More appropriate ones to follow
"Hello this is Mr C Lion "
"Teaching assistants suicide help line"
"Michael Gove appreciation Society"
"My pencil is sharp and ready for action"
"Help Miss Jones has me in the stock Cupboard"
My all-time favourite was a very self-possessed little five-year-old: "5344578, I am Chiara Flockermann-Gaylard, who are you?"
Hello, STD clinic how may I help.
"Yellow" or "Turkish/Indian/Pakistani legation" - in an appropriate accent.
But be careful, answered with the second on a day shift and was talking to a director :( :(
IanS
QuoteI sometimes use : "Vatican Sports Service, Hello ?" ( in french of course, but ... I may try it in english ..)
Shouldn't that be in Italian?
A friend of mine used to have this (or something like it) on his answer phone, in a Marvin type voice...
"Hello, ...... this is the fridge, the answer phone is out at the moment but if you like I can pass on a message"
The best internal phone story I've come across is in Admiral Cunningham's biography
Some poor junior rating inadvertently called his direct line in his flagship and was greeted with "Cunningham"
Rating: "God!!"
Cunningham: "Only very locally"
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: DanJ on 08 February 2017, 09:29:16 AM
Shouldn't that be in Italian?
my knowledge is very limited ! ;D
( Pizza, signora, chianti )
Very good ideas here, folks... I will borrow some... :d