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posted 10:30a, 04/21/11



DID YOU FORGET TO PRESS THE POUND KEY?


GOODBYE.

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I heard this too many times

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Wow..I completely forgot about this. I remember this day WELL

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You completely forgot something you remember well?

My first semeester at a JUCO was similar to what Mom talked about. You had your form, went to a table that had the class you wanted, they signed their list and your form and you were in. Then you went to the next table and realized all the sections were full except for the one that conflicted with the other class you just registered for, so you had to go through the other line again.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

But I could take 12-15 hours for $300 or less.

I took not less than 18hrs, room, and 5d board for about $300...books were usually $100 and I brought notebooks, pencils/pens from home. My Dad also gave me $20 month in spending money. I went my first semester without a car and he bought me a used but very nice VW bug...I would fill that up for THREE DOLLARS and spend $1 on a car wash!!!!

I used to have a tape that was made in the early 90s by some guys who had a phone # very similar to the registration number. They would get a lot of misdialed calls and would screw with the callers who thought they were registering. The guy on the tape did a pretty good impression of the automated registration voice.

They would tell the callers that the "key punch' system wasn't working and that they had to say everything (e.g. "Say POUND KEY", etc.)

It was amazing, not to mention hilarious, all of the stuff they got people to say, all because the caller was afraid they weren't going to get their classes if they didn't comply. By the end, they had people rapping, etc.

Wish I still had the tape. Sadly, it broke many years ago and I haven't been able to locate another copy.

that. is. allsome.

'number'

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the secret was actually using one of the 4 phone numbers given to student athletes to register.

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By the time registration for Spring '01 came around, these weren't so damn secret.

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I had a friend who was a sloot who "knew" a bunch of fooseball players. She gave me a special number they used to register. It took me five minutes to register and I even got Venture Dynamics as a freshman. Venture Dynamics was awesome BTW!

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queso1,
your friend must have been sleeping with the bench warmers, all athletes had to do was go to our personal counselor in Cain Hall and tell her what classes we needed....that was it.

Problem solved!

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I was up registering for classes when that salt dome/natural gas explosion killed the Blue Bell ice cream cows in Brenham. 92?

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I had a house-mate who would hit the snooze button on his alarm and oversleep - every morning. Then he'd wake up, yell "oh, ****" and run down the stairs. I could hear him from my room, and I knew I had 10 minutes until I had to get up.

That morning, the boom from the explosion came up the stairs. My initial thought was that this guy had fallen down the stairs and hit the front door....

It was a male voice that I can still hear in my head as if it were yesterday...

"WELCOME! To the TEXAS A&M! university, system..........enter an action code.............now"

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DID YOU FORGET TO PRESS THE POUND KEY?


GOODBYE

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THIS!

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I used to have a tape that was made in the early 90s by some guys who had a phone # very similar to the registration number. They would get a lot of misdialed calls and would screw with the callers who thought they were registering. The guy on the tape did a pretty good impression of the automated registration voice.

They would tell the callers that the "key punch' system wasn't working and that they had to say everything (e.g. "Say POUND KEY", etc.)

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I heard that tape too Old94. It was hilarious! After telling them to say "POUND KEY" he would trick it up later in the call and have them say "PPPPPPP POUND KEY"

First time they did it was Fall 1986. 845-TAMU, which meant that 845 exchanges (professors) had first priority to access. You should have seen the lines in prof's offices to get access.

Those of you 260-3212'ers dont' even know how bad it was initially.

Yes, I'm old.

Yep - I remember P-P-P-P-POUND KEY.

I would pay money for a copy of that tape...

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anyone else remember this system?

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****, do I...colossal pain in the ass.

Does anybody else remember the phone number screwup that happened at (I think) A&M-Corpus in the mid '90s? They published a number (1-800-PHONE REG) when it should have been 1-800-PHONREG...the first one was the number to a phone sex line.

I'd gladly take my years at A&M WITH an on campus bonfire over having class registration via internet. My senior year was the last one that burned.

this thread had me cracking up, well done everyone