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  Record someone's answering machine message as you hear it, and then play it back to them as your message to them....
• The IBM purchase of ROLM gives new meaning to the term "twisted pair".
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  -- Answering machine madness - machine theme...
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  ) All our answering machines are... (CLICK) This is the answering machine of....
• Hi. I'm probably home, I'm just avoiding someone I don't like.
  Leave me a message, and if I don't call back, it's you....
• We can't get to the phone right now because we were killed in the earthquake.
  Tragic, isn't it? But, leave a message anyway, someone is sure to get it eventually....