{"id":18110,"date":"2014-11-26T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18110"},"modified":"2014-11-27T00:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T08:27:59","slug":"thanksgiving-phone-calls-and-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/thanksgiving-phone-calls-and-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Phone Calls and Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ltom2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the busiest calling days of the year is Thanksgiving, when people talk to loved ones. They talk traffic, turkey, jobs, kids, sports&#8230; the usual stuff. Seldom does anyone ever talk to an operator for call assistance or directory information, but that wasn&#8217;t always the case. It used to be that operators made the essential connections so you could talk. Nearly 40 years ago in 1976 actress\/comedian Lily Tomlin appeared in a parody\u00a0as Ernestine, the nosy, condescending telephone operator who proclaimed, &#8220;We don\u2019t care, we don\u2019t have to&#8230;we&#8217;re the phone company.&#8221; Some things never change.\u00a0Here are a few gems that\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/happy-thanksgiving-to-telephone-operators-everywhere.html\">REAL operators have shared<\/a>. If you&#8217;re short on phone conversation and can&#8217;t think of what to say during Thanksgiving\u00a0phone calls, here are a few jokes tested on national audiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JOHNNY CARSON: Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.<\/li>\n<li>ERMA BOMBECK: Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not coincidence.<\/li>\n<li>JIMMY FALLON: A new survey found that 80% of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense when you hear they consider saying &#8220;that\u00a0\u00a0smells good&#8221; to be helping.<\/li>\n<li>CONAN O&#8217;BRIEN: Walmart announced that they are\u00a0opening earlier than\u00a0they ever have. Because what better way to celebrate the pilgrims&#8217; arrival in America than buying crap from China.<\/li>\n<li>ROSEANNE BARR: Here I am at 5\u00a0o&#8217;clock in the morning stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird&#8217;s butt&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>LOUIS C.K.: The meal isn&#8217;t over when I&#8217;m full. The meal is over when I hate myself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the busiest calling days of the year is Thanksgiving, when people talk to loved ones. They talk traffic, turkey, jobs, kids, sports&#8230; the usual stuff. Seldom does anyone ever talk to an operator for call assistance or directory information, but that wasn&#8217;t always the case. It used to be that operators made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}