“ For two ( 2 ) dollar I will call your friend or enemy or boss or whoever and profess to be a turtle for up to two ( 2 ) minutes . I am the first and best company for your turtlecall needs — the copycat may be cheaper but they barely even voice like literal turtles . ” This is the sales sales talk for a totally real table service calledturtlecalls.com . Think of it as a time - limited , targeted prank call . Below is an example , in which “ Skip in Texas ” receives a turtlecall paid for by a friend ( or enemy , or employee — who knows ) . Skip is a wildlife cinematographer who has more significant thing to do than verbalize to a fake polo-neck , though he does hand out some very reasonable diet tips regarding turtleneck eat at Wendy ’s .

Here ’s a sample line . profess Turtle : “ Dude , you could lave your camera after , you only get one chance to talk to a turtle . ”

In addition to the regular $ 2 turtlecall , there is a $ 3 cheadlecall , “ where i will call and pretend to be a turtle pretending to be Don Cheadle ” ( the turtle has also done at least one call as Beyoncé Knowles ) ; and a $ 10 super turtlecall : “ this turtlecall has advanced features like that I will keep calling until I do not get a voicemail , even if it take away weeks . ”

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There aremany , many moreon turtlecalls.com . This is one busy turtle . In my persuasion , the best thing about the turtlecalls is that most turtlecall recipients rather go with it . There are cleared stage to most conversations : first , endeavor to key out who the phoner is ; secondly , dealing with the clear fact that this is not really a turtle talking ; third , small talk as the pretend turtle tries to operate the recipient in two min of conversation ; finally , the recipient role judge to get the pretend turtleneck off the earpiece , with the primary excuse being some ill defined job responsibility .

( ViaWaxy.org . )