> For Mother's Day I got my mom a little device that plugs into your phone line. Whenever you hear a telemarketer, you press its button and hang up. This device plays a polite, recorded message asking the telemarketer to take your phone number off of their list. It is really fun and my mom swears her number of telemarketer calls has been cut in half.

I think it was my Finnish teacher who told me a pretty good way of ending an annoying call. When you hear it's a telemaketer, just say "I'm going to leave the receiver on the table. Talk as long as you like.". And do so.

Juho