Skype

February 23 2009, 12:00 AM  by Caleb Eggensperger
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Somewhere at Skype's main office, late at night:

Dude, dude come over here.

What is it?

Check it out. You know that call testing service thing we have?

What? No.

It's a bot that says some intro message and then records for ten seconds and plays back the recording for ten seconds, to let users see if they have Skype set up correctly.

Ok so what?

Someone wrote a script to keep all of those recordings. Look, there's gigabytes of this crap! I bet it's a riot. Let's listen to some

Aww, awesome man.

click Duuuuuuuuuhr...test? This is a test.... click

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Okay, here's the next one.

click Testing 1 2 3 testing 1 2 3 click

Aww pretty boring. I bet a lot of them are like that though.

click Test test teeeeeeeest test TEST test test kshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh click

Hahahahaha. Okay, next one.

click ......................................................... click

Well, I guess they didn't have skype configured correctly.

Hahaha, guess it's back to the settings menu for them. Next!

click LalalalalalAAAAAAAAlalalalaLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA click

Hahahaha, oh god man, these are great. We have to show the others tomorrow.

Yeah, okay, next one.

click and oh god, he's bleeding so much, and I don't know CPR, and I don't know what to do, what do I do. Please, help me. Please. Can you hear me? Oh god oh god oh god oh god what am I going to do click

...

What, what the fuck dude.

Aww, I bet it's a prank. Why would...there's no way.... anyway, here's the next one.

No, man, I

click I think I may be the reason she killed herself. And the only person I can tell is you, Skype Call Testing Services Lady. The only person... I just can't... can't bring myself to ... click

Okay dude you need to stop this now. This is not funny anymore

Come on man, they can't all be this bad. The first ones were funny.

When were these recorded? Maybe there's something we can do.

No, no man, these are from like four years ago, and anyway how would we find out who it is.

I don't know, I just feel like we should do something

Whatever, dude. Let's do some more.

What? No absolutely not. No, seriously, you need to sto

click I lost my scholarship, my boyfriend left me, and the only person who will listen to me talk about it is a skype bot. I can't go any lower. Goodbye.... chink... BLAM ... click

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  • Feb 23 2009, 12:00 AM
    ithinkin3d responded:
    This needs to be made into a PFSC-type comic and then sent in to John Campbell. I mean it.

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  • Feb 23 2009, 12:00 AM
    andrewshays.blogspot.com responded:
    I have often thought about this. It's very interesting of you to mention it now.

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