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Editor’s note:
Generally speaking,
the more ideas we
receive on a subject,
the more annoying
the subject must be.
Telephone hold
systems win hands
down. (Although, on
345reflection,talking
Create a scheme that makes use of the hours wasted
spent holding in telephone queues for help desks and
the like. When put on hold by companies subscribing to
the scheme, the user’s telephone number would be
recognised by a centralised computer and a previously
requested talking book, classic album or even language
lesson would be broadcast. When the call was
books may not be so eventually answered the computer would bookmark the
very far behind!) broadcast to be continued the next time the same caller
was put on hold.
James Grainger
16 January 2002
Design special Christmas price stickers for children’s
presents such that stocking gifts given as if from Father
Christmas would appear to have been bought in the
‘Lapland General Store’ rather than, for example, British
Home Stores, thereby removing the pressure on aged
relatives to remember to remove the labels.
346ChasBayfield
17 January 2002
