Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Answering Machine Rhetorics; or, "Believe it or not, George isn't at home...."

Those at all familiar with Harrogate on a personal level understand that the use of a home answering machine to screen calls has hardly died out in the age of cell phones. If ye would reach Harrogate's mother, ye must speak into the machine with the inevitable: "Anybody there?.... Hello?...."

So:

1)Because all these years later, George continues to delight Harrogate whenever he catches a syndicated episode;


2)This clip is funny;

and

3)In tribute to his Mom,

Harrogate offers the following for some light entertainment:


1 comment:

Oxymoron said...

George picks a great song here.

The original was the theme song to "The Greatest American Hero." I loved that show. He lost the users' manual for the suit and never figured out how to land--hah!