>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:42:06 -0400, Doug Freyburger wrote
(in article ):

> Duggy wrote:
>> 
>> I once had Obi-wan's description of Mos Eisley spaceport intercut with
>> the beginning of Voodoo People as my start up sound.  Until recently I
>> had the Window's start up sound, interupted by a record scratch sound
>> and Homer saying "No time for that now, the computer's starting."
> 
> Back in the era of cassette tape answering machines there was a group
> who got together Star Wars sounds.  Shooting and beeping.  We can't
> answer the driod now; the Stormtroopers are attacking.  More
> shooting and beeping.  Leave a message and if we survive the attack
> we'll return your call and leave a message on your driod. More
> shooting and beeping.
> 
> When I got my first cassette answering machines someone waited until the
> middle of the day so I would be at the office and called me to leave a
> message on my machine.  When I got home that evening and played my
> messages the first one was Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the
Machine".  Best
> voice mail message I have ever received other than certain very personal
> ones from my wife. <<

Cassette tape answering machine: we had one on which I put the section from 
Laurie Anderson's "Oh Superman" that goes: "(ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha 
ha ha ha ha ha) Hi...I'm not home right now...but if you want to leave a 
message, just start talking at the sound of the tone....ah...ha-ah."  That 
was great because we were six of us living in one house, so it made more 
sense than trying to get all of our names onto the message ("Hi, you have 
reached the home of Amy, Paul, Paul, Jerry, Dave, and Rachel...").  Well, 
okay, maybe it wasn't any shorter, but it was much more fun.

Amy
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