[Chad C. Mulligan]

I put my self on the no call list and that totally got me more calls.

I did too. Frequency dropped from 15 a day to 4 or 5. Maybe from auto-dialers in foreign countries. I still don't answer the phone.

One hypothesis I hold is that the auto-dialers give up after getting the machine a dozen times or so, but if they even once get a live human, the floodgates open wide. Takes discipline to not pick up when I know it's my wife or daughter calling.

[cgbg]

We have a dog toy that is a stuffed animal.

I think it is a hedgehog.

If you squeeze it you get a sound that sounds exactly like a human fart.

When I get a telemarketer on the lines these days I squeeze it.

If they say anything else I squeeze it again.

Fun for the whole family!