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Let's just shorten that to X Imagine being on hold with tech support long enough to memorize every one of your ISP's annoying, insincere and irrelevant while-you-wait sales messages! Well, for the next forty minutes you'll have lthat chance! Here goes! XO Communications is the company that's ready right now to get you connected to the future of business telephone services! XO Communications offers the full range of services to meet the demands of today's telecommunications needs. XO Communications can bring you everything from basic local dial tone and long distance services to enhanced services such as interactive voice response, high speed data transmission, Internet services, and highly mobile personal 800 communcations products! With XO Communications, you'll have plenty of options! Thank you for holding! A local XO Communications representative will be with you shortly! The next generation of telephone technology is finally here! And XO Communications is the telephone company that's bringing it to you! With over 330 miles of high capacity fiber optic lines already in place, XO Communications is bringing the future of telecommunications to Wasatch Front businesses! Stay on the line to learn more about the Fiber Optic Advantage! The next available XO Communications representative will be with you as soon as possible! The choice for your business telephone service provider is clear! XO Communications! When you choose XO Communications, you choose greater capacity and speed! Plus reliability and savings. And since XO Communications will be your local telephone service provider, we promise to service your business with local representatives who will always be available, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Please continue to hold, and a representative will be with you shortly! Okay. After forty minutes on hold a nice guy picked up the line and explained that since around four o'clock a router has been down in San Jose. They're working on it, but they don't know when it will be up. When I suggested they lose the stupid sales messages, the guy said they 'd been trying to get "them" to stop for a while. Of course the router would crap out right in the middle of flipping my home page. Ah. I see we're back up. Here we go. Rembembering what we're not going to take any more The Corporate Cosmology of Arthur Jensen My favorite so far: "Marc Andreessen Denies Relationship With Caribou" I don't know why it took so long to find the Slashdot Random Story Generator, but here it is. Just keep hitting Refresh. Funny as hell.
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