On Monday, busy signals greeted callers trying to reach Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
He arranged Dial-A-Poem, which greeted callers with recorded works by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and John Cage; he was filmed by Warhol; his AIDS Treatment Project initiative organized benefit concerts and LPs from artists like Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson.
The city's information line, 311, greets callers in Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Creole.
Late Summer 2002 A few answering machines still greet callers with the victim's voice.
When I am on it, get away,' " said Sullivan, whose office staff greets callers with a chirpy "Hello, irregular warfare".
Bermudez still lives in the home she shared with Marsh, and his voice still greets callers on the answering machine.
The recorded voice of Brian Kelley, the senior assistant director for athletic communications, greets callers wanting to leave Driben a telephone message.
He assembled his team, started group meetings with the 9,000 county workers and revamped everything from the organization chart to the way switchboard operators greet callers.
Another employee was recorded telling the trucking executive that a woman should answer the phone at the front company's job-site trailer, and directing how she should greet callers.
Stanley, you might say, have specialised in being broke since they were forced out of the Football League in 1962 – fans still sing about never forgetting that year – and the broad east Lancashire burr which currently greets callers to the club tells the story of the place they're now at.
He said that "the ladies who answer the phone" used to simply grunt, "Nassau County," and did so in such a glum tone that "it sounded like, 'We're dying here, they're sticking pins in us.' " Now, after a bit of coaching by Mr. Suozzi, they greet callers cheerfully: "Good morning.
