Mr Bartlett said patients were advised to call their GP in non-emergency cases and follow the answering machine message if the surgery was closed.

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The answering machine is Ray.

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There was no response to a message requesting comment, left on the home answering machine of a David Ostermeyer.

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Frustrated with the faulty answering machine in his new Compaq Presario, Dale Johnson clicked into an on-line bulletin board last July.

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On its website, PhoneTel says Henderson became the apprentice of Japanese inventor Dr. Kazuo Hashimoto in 1993, credited with producing the first telephone answering machine.

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For patients in need of services covered by Medicare, the typical wait to see a doctor was two or three weeks, and the appointments were made by answering machine.

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Who remembers when Duane "Dog" Chapman was caught using the N-word on his son's answering machine?

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He made these comments in private, was on his son's answering machine, wasn't in the workplace, and it didn't rise to the level of him losing his show.

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According to Bishop, his normal practice when effecting trades for his client was to leave a message on her answering machine when he could not reach her directly informing her of the trade he proposed to make.

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The McCourts let Porter know he was being let go after 28 years by leaving a message on his answering machine!

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