My kids can barely remember a time before caller ID. If it
wasn’t for Bart Simpson and Weird Al Yankovic, they’d probably have no idea
what prank calls were. When I was eleven or twelve they were a chief form of
party entertainment. You’d call a random number and ask whoever answers if
their refrigerator was running. When they said it was, you’d say, “Then you’d
better go catch it!” Or you’d call a store and ask if they have Prince Albert
in a can. If they did, you’d say, “Let him out before he suffocates!” Yes, I
know it’s moronic. That’s sort of the whole point. Before caller ID, you could
do completely moronic things like this in total anonymity. Today you can place
a blocked call by dialing *67, but your victim would see the caller ID was
blocked. I guess anyone who answers a blocked call deserves to be told to go chase
his fridge.
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