Spooooky

OK, not too spooky, but how often do you get an hour of a ghost on videotape?

Perhaps spookier: Imagine getting your PhD in linguistics. Spending hundreds if not thousands of hours writing a dissertation on... well, whatever sorts of things one writes linguistic dissertations on. Then you enter the job market. And you find yourself - your highly-educated linguist self - pre-recording excuses for people to receive on their cell phones so they can get out of bad dates:

When the cell rings, one of Cingular's eight "emergency" messages says: "Hey, this is your Escape-A-Date call. If you're looking for an excuse, I got it. Just repeat after me, and you'll be on your way! 'Not again! Why does that always happen to you? ... All right, I'll be right there.' Now tell 'em that your roommate got locked out, and you have to go let them in. Good luck!"

Spooooky.