| Topic: |
Sociology > Depression |
| User: |
"Virgo Cluster" |
| Date: |
04 Feb 2004 09:27:15 AM |
| Object: |
Re: Lonliness Hotline |
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news:<b5ae9d68.0402030419.5d0dab30@posting.google.com>...
Hi, if there is anyone out there who is lonely, depressed, or even
simply shy, there is a new hotline where a live person will talk to
you for free and try to help you sort through your problems.
212-479-7990 (New York)
310-217-7638 (Los Angeles)
It's a toll-free call (only long distance charges will apply if you
are not in the area code you call the number to).
[Reply cross-posted to other groups
where a version of this post was made.]
Why not just talk to telemarkers when they call you?
*** excerpt from my 2003-09-12 post at <http://tinyurl.com/ow0v> ***
My wife doesn't like talking to strangers on the phone, so she hardly
ever answers the phone until the answering machine picks up, while
I'm the kind of person who'll talk to a tele-marketer until they tell
me they need to go. I talked with a Gateway computer guy on the
phone several years ago for about 40 minutes. I called to get some
information about laptop computers, current prices, and some other
things but I wasn't ready to order at that time. After about 15
minutes I asked him if he got any commission on sales and he said
yes, so I told him that I wasn't ready to buy something yet but
when I was I would get it through him if he had a way for me to
get back to him. He gave me his extension number, and I called
him about a year later when I was ready to get a second computer.
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Virgo Cluster
"[10 Members of the Animal Kingdom Least Likely to Star in a
Disney Cartoon Film] (#1) The candiru is a tiny catfish which
lives as a parasite in bigger fish in the Amazon, and is
attracted to the smell of human urine in water. Unfortunately,
it often mistakes male humans for big fish, and it will enter
the swimmer's body through his anal passage, burrow its way into
the penis and stick out a set of spikes. The pain is excruciating:
the victim is best advised to get to a hospital quickly, before
the bladder bursts, and ask a surgeon to cut off his penis."
<< Karl Shaw, "The Mammoth Book of Tasteless
Lists", Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998, p. 423 >>
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