Friday, October 1, 2010

Poor copy-editing or most elaborate prank ever?

Over the last few days, I have received multiple calls asking about the room I have for rent. I have no such room. In fact, I don't rent out anything except my services as a consultant. I asked the last caller more about why they called me. Apparently, there is a flier posted in the student center of a school which is many states away that has my phone number on it.

So what, oh what, is going on here CM readers? Is this just bad copy-editing by a snowflake many states away or is this an elaborate prank that a snowflake is playing on me?

8 comments:

  1. Do all of these students want to move to your state? Or do they not have enough sense to realize that there is a typo in the area code?

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  2. That's what you get for getting involved with Farmville. I knew that stuff was trouble.

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  3. So what if the area code's wrong. The rest of the number is right. That's at least 70%. That's passing isn't it. Yaaaaaaaay!

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  4. Oh, it's not a prank. A prank would involve craigslist and nude garden gnomes and someone called "the Gimp."

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  5. With cell phones and their student owners from many different states (or just states with multiple area codes, like mine) I see area codes from who knows where. Thus, an odd area code doesn't phase most students...

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  6. I would argue "prank disguised as human stupidity"....there's a group of phone phreaks called the Phone Losers of America and for years they crank called people miles from where they lived, or hacked into hotel phone lines, or screwed with people calling into Wal-Marts. There are some people who belive in the random joke.

    www.phonelosers.org

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  7. Your students do not have the abstract reasoning capacity to do this deliberately.

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  8. Now I wish to put up adverts. Can I borrow someone's number?

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