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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 9:14 AM Ive toyed with the idea of making this bogus call but i live on the east coast and am not usually up too late Someone should call in and have a smoke detector chirp going off in the background..... but have the time between chirps be variable........ eg 32 seconds for the first delay, 40 for the second, then 28 and so on...... it would drive corolla nuts trying to pace it........... —maestro |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 10:56 AM What about two smoke detectors? They're pretty cheap. You could start close to one of them, then move so you're equidistant. I think the absolute best smoke detector call was fairly recent, the woman who said her smoke detector had always been doing that since she moved in, and that the one where she grew up did that too. That was something. Myself, I'm just waiting for someone to change their battery on air. It's not too hard to stand on a chair and pop in a 9 volt. I could do it while cradling the phone. —Dubious Merit |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 11:17 AM Myself, I'm just waiting for someone to change their battery on air. It's not too hard to stand on a chair and pop in a 9 volt. I could do it while cradling the phone —Dubious Merit
No kidding! I mean, jesus, what is wrong with some of these people?
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 11:48 AM Maybe they don't have spare batteries lying around. I think one of the ways you can tell Loveline callers apart from normal people is that they live in a kind of eternal "now" where nothing they do will have consequences and, apparently, batteries don't run down. I used to live in an apartment where they put a sticker over the back of the smoke detector so you couldn't monkey with the battery - there was some huge fine threatened if you did. Just my luck, I was there for the death of the 5-year battery, and was pretty much forced to call the landlord to replace it, even though I had the batteries, the ladder and the desire. It took them three days to show up and, with great ceremony, replace the battery and sticker. Three days. I just took the whole thing down and jammed pillows on top of it at night and died an ironically fiery death. —Dubious Merit |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 11:49 AM What about two smoke detectors? Or MORE... *cackles maniacally* —Dark Laith |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:26 PM Dubious Merit, They also tell you not to rip the tag off of your mattress. Come on now. Lets break it down! Get a hand in. —Juanus |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 12:45 PM Juanus, dude, while there is no post-consumer mattress tag police force, I would not have put it past my last landlord/bastard to charge me $500 for tearing a stupid sticker. Laith: that is a great idea. You could have a dozen detectors ready to go and an associate putting near-flat batteries in a new one every thirty seconds. It'd end up sounding like crickets!
Oh, man, that'd be awesome. Alternate bogus call idea: the smoke detector actually going off in the background. It'd have to start during the call, though. —Dubious Merit |
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maestro |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 1:16 PM oh i like the idea of the smoke detector going off as if there was a fire!!! —maestro |
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Dark Laith |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 1:50 PM
Edited Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 1:51 PM Alternate bogus call idea: the smoke detector actually going off in the background. It'd have to start during the call, though. Just get someone to overcook some food or something, and the hold the smoke detector right over it while it's still on the burner. It wouldn't be as funny as a dozen low-battery detectors going off, but it would be a hell of a lot easier to pull off. —Dark Laith |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 10:22 PM Why not just clip one from a Loveline call like Anderson did, and play it on the computer while calling? —Kevin U. |
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Dark Laith |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 10:39 PM Excellent! Simplest solution of all. Now, who wants to actually try to do it? He or she would become a Loveline legend! Step forth, o brave one! —Dark Laith |
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Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 9:48 PM
Edited Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 9:49 PM Just get someone to overcook some food or something, and the hold the smoke detector right over it while it's still on the burner.
Even THAT much is unnecessary. Just have someone press the "test" button.
I remember very clearly, by the way, the first time I myself heard Adam go off on a "detector-tard." I was listening on my bedside clock radio, in my bedroom, directly outside of which was a smoke detector that was old, and of which it was my landlord's (not my) responsibility to change the battery. I was frequently subjected to the "would drive a reptile insane" chirp, as my landlord was not known for his punctuality with such matters. Anyway as the tar--er..caller was describing her problem, I began to hear the infamous chirp, and thought to myself "fuck, Fuck, FUCK!!! I wonder how long it's gonna take [landlord] to change the battery THIS fucking time!!! I THOUGHT he just DID it recently, and here I am hearing this goddamn noise AGAIN!!! Just then, Adam said "[caller] I'm going to come over there and rip that goddamn smoke detector off your wall!" I then laughed hysterically, realizing that the irritating noise was coming from the radio, NOT from the hallway. I then felt like a complete tard, but what else is new. —Dusty TheHick |
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