The
800 Club was a
spinoff--or I should say
adversary of the famous
700 Club. It was probably
instigated by
the Discordians, or at the very least definitely someone who was into
Operation Mindfuck. Whether they knew it or not.
Here's the idea of the 800 club: You collect
800 numbers of various
Churchian money-grubbing hate groups, and you start making calls. Every call you make that they answer, even if you just
hang up the phone, costs them a few cents. The longer you
stay on the line, the more it costs them. If you
order pamphlets and whatnot (it's fun to have them sent to
enemies, preferably
en masse), it costs them a
couple bucks. One guy got
ambitious, hooked up a
modem, and cost those bastards
over ninety grand in only a few months.
Fun aside, this was our quiet
protest to what those of us in the 800 Club (and
we were many; hell, we still may be many...) saw as a disgusting
rape of spirituality. Oh, and they were
usually assholes, too...we had
lots of fun with
Pat Robertson and all the other
hate-monger sorts who are always going after the
Teletubbies or
Halloween or
gay marriages or whatever was up their
collective ass that particular week.
You know, I haven't been in on the 800 club in
years, but now that I think about it, it really was a good idea. If money is what's so important to these
greedy offerers of
deliberately misleading advice in the realms of what is supposed to be
holy, let money be what it costs them, right? Hmm...and I know a
little more about modems now, too....*eg*