> From: Ronn!Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> OTOH, with different names, when someone calls and asks for 
> the father's 
> name when everyone who knows him knows he has moved, it's a 
> dead giveaway 
> it's a telemarketer, and you can either have some fun with 
> them or tell 
> them exactly what you think of telemarketers (which itself 
> may be your idea 
> of fun) . . .

Having your wife keep her name also works for that.  There's nothing like
being addressed as "Mr. Cleaver" to tip off that it is a sales call.

Of course, one time I went off in a case like that it turned out to be the
father of a friend of Anita's.  He, of course, had no idea that we had
different names.  And he was not amused.

 - jmh
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