Today's Topics:
Prank phone call contest
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Subject: Re: Prank phone call contest
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 89 18:04:19 PST
Message-Id: <4109.629863459@hplnpm>
From: "Niels P. Mayer" <mayer%hplnpm@hplabs.hp.com>
> Long denied its rightful place as one of the great, indigenous
> American artforms, the Prank Phone Call appears ready to emerge
> triumphantly as a vital form of artistic expression for the
> communication era. In order to expedite the inevitable, we (me) here
> at EIGHTBALL are proud to announce the OFFICIAL EIGHTBALL(tm) PRANK
> PHONE CALL CONTEST! To become a contestant all you need is a tape
> recorder, a telephone, and a healthy disrespect for the privacy of
> others.
This has already been done, more artistically than could ever be imagined,
by Mr. Insane Misanthrope Himself -- John Trubee....
If you ever come across his album "The Communists are Coming to Kill Us" by
"John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America" get it, and check out some
of the great prank-art he's done. The one I particularly like is called
something like "Call to a mortuary at Midnight" where he's asking them
about getting a job there while piping in the noises of sheep bleating into
the phone. He also does a good job of confusing his prey by using an
echoplex to tweak his or his victims voice and feed it back into the phone
line.
I had a tape of the album once, but I lent it to someone and he lost it...
"I'll vomit on your hair and you'll get high" -- John Trubee.
-- Niels Mayer.
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