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S.A. Woman Charged $32 For Opinion (one born every minute - and she is blond...)
http://www.clickonsa.com/ant/money/12onyourside/stories/12onyourside-166661920020913-110936.html ^

Posted on 09/15/2002 5:38:36 PM PDT by chance33_98



S.A. Woman Charged $32 For Opinion
Fax Company Profits From Controversy
Posted: 11:46 a.m. CDT September 13, 2002
Updated: 12:08 p.m. CDT September 13, 2002

SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio woman was recently charged $32.45 for her opinion on a hot topic.

Susan Lyman-Krom (pictured, left) said she decided to respond to a poll from an unsolicited fax whether the phrase "One nation under God" should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.

"I felt strongly about that question," Lyman-Krom said in an interview with KSAT 12 News.

After writing down her vote, Lyman-Krom faxed her opinion to a 900 number.

According to the fax, calls cost $2.95 a minute. The average fax takes about two minutes in standard mode, the fax stated.

"We figured it would cost $6," Lyman-Krom said.

But when Lyman-Krom received her bill, she said she was shocked to see that she was charged $32.45 for an 11-minute fax by Right2Vote Limited, a Canadian company.

"I think it's a scam," Lyman-Krom added. "I think its a way to hit a nerve with the general public on a heated issue. They are turning right around and collecting all this money on a phone call."

Lyman-Krom said that AT&T told her that the 900 number she called belonged to British Fax Directory.

British Fax Directory is a subsidiary of 21st Century Fax, a London-based company that was fined $1 million by the Federal Communications Commission for junk faxes.

KSAT 12 News tried to contact Right2Vote, but there was no telephone number listed. A phone number to remove a fax machine from the company's list was constantly busy.


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To: RepublicanHippy
Blonde Jokes
61 posted on 09/15/2002 6:38:49 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: RepublicanHippy
I'm a lawyer, and I've noticed a few unkind jokes about my profession, only they're generally a lot nastier than blonde jokes.

In your jokes, you don't generally end up DEAD.

Now, lighten up.

62 posted on 09/15/2002 6:39:48 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: chance33_98
She may be blond, but it aint natural. :-}
63 posted on 09/15/2002 6:39:57 PM PDT by Great Dane
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To: RepublicanHippy
Okay, well you people know how I feel about being insulted by your "dumb blonde" jokes. I have been an avid fan of Free Republic for a couple years now but I guess it's time I find a new hang out. I thought I had something in common with you people because I am a life-long conservative but apparently not. Before I say good-bye can I ask you if any of you have young blonde daughters? Would you like it if they were constantly offended and poked fun of like you are doing to me on this thread?

btw, welcome to FReeperWorld ...

64 posted on 09/15/2002 6:40:29 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Publius6961
Did you hear about the two blondes who walked into a building?

Clever. A joke that has its punchline built into its set-up.

65 posted on 09/15/2002 6:40:48 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: Brad C.
If they put up with it, it must be they got their genetics from you.
66 posted on 09/15/2002 6:40:50 PM PDT by RepublicanHippy
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To: Ben Ficklin
Oh, man, in directing her to that site she has more fodder for her "lawsuit."
67 posted on 09/15/2002 6:41:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Alissa
Oops, looks like I did get confused. Thanks for clearing that up.

Hope that doesn't lead to any dumb Texan jokes.
68 posted on 09/15/2002 6:41:17 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Dog Gone
I'm a lawyer, and I've noticed a few unkind jokes about my profession

Biting my tongue extremely hard...

69 posted on 09/15/2002 6:42:26 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Dog Gone
I'm a lawyer . . .

In fact, lawyers know the best lawyer jokes and are often loathe to share them outside the profession.

70 posted on 09/15/2002 6:42:40 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: Kevin Curry
Shhhh.
71 posted on 09/15/2002 6:44:42 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
Being a lawyer is not genetic, you could have chosen another profession.
72 posted on 09/15/2002 6:45:22 PM PDT by RepublicanHippy
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To: RepublicanHippy
They may not care now, but they will some day after years of being tormented and insulted.

They're 24 and doing way better than you are in this area.

"Tormented"?

BWAHAHAHA!!!...Take a pill, Roboblonde.

FMCDH

73 posted on 09/15/2002 6:45:26 PM PDT by nothingnew
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To: Dog Gone
Sue to prove that jokes are no laughing matter.

youbetcha !
we take our fun seriously 'round here ...


74 posted on 09/15/2002 6:45:45 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: RepublicanHippy
Q. What's the difference between a brunette and some household garbage?

A. The trash gets taken out once in a while.

75 posted on 09/15/2002 6:45:46 PM PDT by TheMole
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To: RepublicanHippy
Ah but there it is. Being teased for something that one has chosen is worse than for something you are born with. For the latter, you can just shrug it off as something beyond your control. It doesn't reflect on you. But the former, it can lead to self-doubts about one's own judgements and decisions.
76 posted on 09/15/2002 6:47:15 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: eddie willers
And I am series

ROFLMAO!

77 posted on 09/15/2002 6:47:18 PM PDT by Critter
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To: Rebelbase
You are pretty arrogant aren't you?
78 posted on 09/15/2002 6:47:21 PM PDT by RepublicanHippy
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To: RepublicanHippy
"Why should blondes have to tolerate being discriminated against when it is illegal to discriminate against others?"

I'm sympathetic to your feelings, but you must understand that many on FreeRepublic are WHAM's, the one group that is discriminated against by virtually all non-WHAM's and the WHAMs seem to have no recourse, legal or otherwise.
79 posted on 09/15/2002 6:47:24 PM PDT by Chu Gary
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To: RepublicanHippy
A Blond is driving down a country road running adjacent to a golf course. She looks out her car window and see's another blond sitting in a row boat and paddling furiously on the green of the seventh hole.

She is incensed and shouts at the Blond in the dry locked boat, "It's People like you who give Blonds a bad name."

Then after pausing for a moment she adds,"And if I could swim I would come over there and kick the snippets out of you!!"

80 posted on 09/15/2002 6:48:15 PM PDT by carpio
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