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Apparently, there is this project in Norway where they put up what they call a Telemegaphone, basically a telephone loudspeaker sort of thing you can call, and then it broadcasts whatever you say over a whole valley and village.

Here's their website (http://www.unsworn.org/telemegaphone/index.php).

I've stumbled upon this with this website (http://oddstrument.com/2008/08/06/call-this-number/), and the comments section made me post it on NSG.

What would YOU do, had you the financial resources for a call to a Norwegian cellphone? Save the poor Norwegians from your noise? Refuse to believe this is real? Call and make your latest conspiracy theory known? Rant? Sing? Promote your band's latest album? Or do any of the various prank things suggested on that site (feel free to post any other you can think of here - loving many of them)?

I'd sing them a song in Cree.

I'd sing them a song in Cree.

Why do you treat some random Norwegians to a song in Cree, and all I ever got was English and Spanish songs Huh? HUH?

Id encourage them to invade Sweden.

Does anyone live near it? Surely they can't have agreed to be interrupted by random telephone calls booming around the area?

Why do you treat some random Norwegians to a song in Cree, and all I ever got was English and Spanish songs Huh? HUH?

Really? I never gave you songs in Cree?

I'm sorry! Here!
http://media.putfile.com/nikiwapamaw-59
http://media.putfile.com/sahkitowin
http://media.putfile.com/Faisons-la
http://media.putfile.com/kisakitin
http://media.putfile.com/wiminihkweskiw

I'd encourage them to invade Sweden.
One of the comments suggested announcing to nthem that Sweden had annexed them.

Does anyone live near it? Surely they can't have agreed to be interrupted by random telephone calls booming around the area?

Yes, there is a village near it that is supposed to hear it. They adjusted the volume so that you ca hear the calls and make out the words, but they claim it's not loud enough to wake anyone - oh, and that the villagers like it.

Really? I never gave you songs in Cree?

I'm sorry! Here!
http://media.putfile.com/nikiwapamaw-59
http://media.putfile.com/sahkitowin
http://media.putfile.com/kisakitin
http://media.putfile.com/wiminihkweskiw
Yay! I shall consider liking you again.

One of the comments suggested announcing to nthem that Sweden had annexed them.


Mine is better. Norway > Sweden.

Yay! I shall consider liking you again.

Good, as long as 'consider liking' actually means 'have sex with'.

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAMMITY SPAM, WONDERFUL SPAM!

either that or...

Hey Fred, I just called to say that the tests came out negative, you have nothing to worry about... Fred? Hello? Oh Sh!*... wrong number!!! (hang up.)

Yes, there is a village near it that is supposed to hear it. They adjusted the volume so that you ca hear the calls and make out the words, but they claim it's not loud enough to wake anyone - oh, and that the villagers like it.

I'm not sure what I find weirder: people who want to live in a place and listen to whatever tripe comes out of that megaphone, or people who want to speak to a whole village of their arrogance.

I really find that dumbfounding. Perhaps I just have a greater need to control what I am hearing than others.

Mine is better. Norway > Sweden.

Lies.

Good, as long as 'consider liking' actually means 'have sex with'.

Nah, then what's the "again" doing in my sentence? Please don't tell me I've missed a prior occurrence of intercourse with you?! My memory is bad, but how could I forget THAT?

I'm not sure what I find weirder: people who want to live in a place and listen to whatever tripe comes out of that megaphone, or people who want to speak to a whole village of their arrogance.

Yeah, theories have been announced to the effect that this is nought but an experiment to see to what cruel lengths people who think they can anonymously harass people somewhere will go.

*evil grin*

I'd look up several of the villagers name, and then call one of them and then say this in Norwegian.

"The following people have AIDs...."

Yeah, theories have been announced to the effect that this is nought but an experiment to see to what cruel lengths people who think they can anonymously harass people somewhere will go.

I suspected as much from those pesky Norwegians.

If it's actually real and not just an experiment, I hope they have some kind of moderation in place.

*evil grin*

I'd look up several of the villagers name, and then call one of them and then say this in Norwegian.

"The following people have AIDs...."

I'm not sure what I find weirder: people who want to live in a place and listen to whatever tripe comes out of that megaphone, or people who want to speak to a whole village of their arrogance.

I really find that dumbfounding.

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What do you think I'd do? There's only one possibility:

I would broadcast The Brown Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note

Anything less would be ungoofballian.

I suspected as much from those pesky Norwegians.

IIRC, it's been Swedish people who invented and set this up.

If it's actually real and not just an experiment, I hope they have some kind of moderation in place.
They don't.

IIRC, it's been Swedish people who invented and set this up.

I wouldn't trust them either, they are the nearest neighbours to the myth that is Finland.

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Hey, giving me access to a megaphone that the whole town can hear....well they're just asking for it!

I'll leave that as my call back number

Apparently, there is this project in Norway where they put up what they call a Telemegaphone, basically a telephone loudspeaker sort of thing you can call, and then it broadcasts whatever you say over a whole valley and village.

Here's their website (http://www.unsworn.org/telemegaphone/index.php).

I've stumbled upon this with this website (http://oddstrument.com/2008/08/06/call-this-number/), and the comments section made me post it on NSG.

What would YOU do, had you the financial resources for a call to a Norwegian cellphone? Save the poor Norwegians from your noise? Refuse to believe this is real? Call and make your latest conspiracy theory known? Rant? Sing? Promote your band's latest album? Or do any of the various prank things suggested on that site (feel free to post any other you can think of here - loving many of them)?

Website says they will stop "broadcasting" on September 6, 2008. We have sadly missed the boat. :(

Hey, giving me access to a megaphone that the whole town can hear....well they're just asking for it!

Yeah, like that slut in the miniskirt.

Website says they will stop "broadcasting" on September 6, 2008. We have sadly missed the boat. :(

Just temporarily, for the deer hunting season so a to not scare the deer away, IIRC.

Website says they will stop "broadcasting" on September 6, 2008. We have sadly missed the boat. :(

Curses! Foiled again! :mad:

Yeah, like that slut in the miniskirt.

Nice strawman, because we all know that a cruel prank = Rape...

The first site says it's a temporary closing , so the deer hunting season can proceed.

Mine is better. Norway > Sweden.

Better, you say. I disagree. If Norway would be stupid enough to invade Sweden, they would discover that the European Union, the greater collective of which Sweden is a part, would probably seize this opportunity to bring the last Scandinavion nation-state into the fold... with a proper amount of military muscle, of course. But maybe that's actually your secret agenda, eh?

Really? I never gave you songs in Cree?

I'm sorry! Here!
http://media.putfile.com/nikiwapamaw-59
http://media.putfile.com/sahkitowin
http://media.putfile.com/Faisons-la
http://media.putfile.com/kisakitin
http://media.putfile.com/wiminihkweskiw

You have a nice voice. Cree is a pretty sounding language, too. Or at least it is in the songs.

Better, you say. I disagree. If Norway would be stupid enough to invade Sweden, they would discover that the European Union, the greater collective of which Sweden is a part, would probably seize this opportunity to bring the last Scandinavion nation-state into the fold... with a proper amount of military muscle, of course. But maybe that's actually your secret agenda, eh?

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

All that nice stuff, right?

You have a nice voice. Cree is a pretty sounding language, too. Or at least it is in the songs.

Thank you....I'm definitely biased...I think it's the most beautiful language that exists:)

...so Norwegian villagers what are you wearing?

This absolutely made my day. One of my few pleasures in life at the moment is the public address system on my guntruck, so I often drive past truck stops and rest areas playing music (I played Got To Give It Up by Marvin Gaye for an Iraqi truck stop yesterday) or just saying random things (often in French) to people. Apparently the telemegaphone is only down for deer season so when it's back online I'll be playing Banana Phone for them.

Beyond that I may recite Jabberwocky for them. I did that the other day to an Iraqi traffic jam.

'Run, run for your lives' it's coming, it's comin....argggh'

Nice strawman, because we all know that a cruel prank = Rape...

Certainly not, but "There are a temptation and chance (to negatively impact someone to my amusement) that lie in that somebody's choices/behavior, and thus it is okay for me to not restrain myself because this way, they've been asking for it" is the same fallacious thinking in both situations.

This absolutely made my day.
I aim to please :]

Apparently, there is this project in Norway where they put up what they call a Telemegaphone, basically a telephone loudspeaker sort of thing you can call, and then it broadcasts whatever you say over a whole valley and village.

Here's their website (http://www.unsworn.org/telemegaphone/index.php).

I've stumbled upon this with this website (http://oddstrument.com/2008/08/06/call-this-number/), and the comments section made me post it on NSG.

What would YOU do, had you the financial resources for a call to a Norwegian cellphone? Save the poor Norwegians from your noise? Refuse to believe this is real? Call and make your latest conspiracy theory known? Rant? Sing? Promote your band's latest album? Or do any of the various prank things suggested on that site (feel free to post any other you can think of here - loving many of them)?

I've called them... A few months ago. Nobody answered my queries.

It's closed. This happened during the summer.

It's closed. This happened during the summer.

Funny how it appears you have not fully read the thread in which you appear to tell people they've not fully read the website.

I've called them... A few months ago. Nobody answered my queries.

GM has timewarped ahead of NSG. Or vice versa.

GM has timewarped ahead of NSG. Or vice versa.

We're the future, baby! :D

...or, you know, the past in a clever disguise...

"Snorri Magnusson, please report to the Telemegaphone immediately."

Heh! I used to work in a large warehouse and we had a PA system that had it's own extension so you could phone it up and talk to the entire warehouse on it. Which was fine until someone posted the number on a forum like this one..

Heh! I used to work in a large warehouse and we had a PA system that had it's own extension so you could phone it up and talk to the entire warehouse on it. Which was fine until someone posted the number on a forum like this one..

Awesome. Were you there during the aftermath?

Awesome. Were you there during the aftermath?
Kanabia!!!


..umm, carry on.

Kanabia!!!


..umm, carry on.

*wave* :)