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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)
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    "Who was it, honey?" "It was Bob. They had a baby. It's a boy."

    Man, commercials just used to live in your head like that. This was for 1-800 collect or one of the many, many copycats, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It was a Geico ad which took advantage of it being the era with all those competing collect-call services everyone knew about.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'm pretty sure the commercial was before my time. I managed to catch the very tail-end of collect calls and payphones, though. I definitely used this trick all the time to get my parents to come out and collect (heh) me from school or the mall as a broke tween. It annoyed the shit out of them haha

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