The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 11, 2024

Did you pay the bill, Brutus?

I had two missed calls show up on caller ID with no name. Called one out of curiosity. Recorded voice: That # is not in use. Into the blocked number list with it.

Ooops!

They knew you’d call.

Reminds me of “The Telephone Call” by Kraftwerk !

I need more memory for all the blocked calls just from this morning!

The scam calls seem relentless this month. BTW, Trump, Biden are not texting in-spite of the message title….

I guess Veeblefeste got the company cellphones locked out of personal calls.

An idea for an answering machine message?

Oops! Mother Gargle is at it, again.

hang up and dial again!

I don’t know why he can’t get service. He’s wearing a shirt.

Who you gonna call?

Brings to mind: “Have I Reached The Party to Whom I Am Speaking?” – Lily Tomlin as Ernestine.

hope that person you tried to call wasn’t important.

Hey! I pay good money to keep this brick connected to limited service.

Didn’t hear that coming huh Brutus ?

I was at a local store some time ago and encountered a friend. We were talking when his phone rang. He took it out of the belt clip and showed me the Caller Id. It showed that he was calling himself. He answered the call and it was a scam call telling him fraud had been detected on his social security account and unless he sent money, he would be arrested. He hung up.

If they don’t leave a message – it’s not from God or important. I don’t waste my time answering the unknown. Not even when I die. Call forwarding to St Paul, Damascus Road.

“You are calling from… The Twilight Zone”…

I have gotten a call from my own phone number. Aren’t we all thankful to Congress for passing the number portability law that allows this to happen. And how we respect Congress for holding hearings to determine how to stop this, yet they don’t do the one thing that they should, repeal the law.

Did you forget to pay the phone bill, Brutus?

Brutus looks dumb founded!!

Then how did it call you?

This is better than the mailing I received this week from my doctor’s office which was addressed “To the Estate of Brent Rosenthal”! When I called the doctor’s office the lady asked me if I am the executor and I said “actually I’m the deceased.”

Thorny makes a side trip to the Twilight Zone.

Thank you?…..

Android update and you can’t be sure what isn’t working.

My phone is set to block any calls I get from numbers that are not in my list of trusted numbers. Yesterday, I got a call from a number not in my list. In looking at the number, it was a local number, so I decided to call it. When I did, I got a recorded message saying, “The number you have dialed is not in service.” Phishing and/or spoofing, I suppose.

“Greatest Prank Call Ever! TomMabe (dot)com Murder Scene”. Best ever prank comeback to a telemarketer call, on YouTube. Change the word dot, to the period/dot symbol. One of the best by comedian Tom Mabe !!!

Kind of like when you use a PBX and forget to dial 9