Leave a Message at the Beep — Twice But Nice Edition

In 2004, Scott “Starfire” Lunt amassed a collection of tapes from answering machines that ended up in thrift stores.

“These are spectacular glimpses into people’s lives and I can’t believe they get so casually discarded,” Starfire wrote at the time.

Today we resurrect the audio files from the answering machine of the old Twice But Nice store.

Outgoing message

Lamps

Disgusted

Las Vegas

Missy

Bettie Mae

4 Comments

  1. Lawrence Lee on April 10, 2014 at 7:28 am

    That was ten years ago? Wow.

  2. nicolai nicolai on April 10, 2014 at 7:49 am

    Please post more! These are great.

  3. Paul Lundgren Paul Lundgren on April 10, 2014 at 7:52 am

    There is one more installment coming up.

  4. wskyline wskyline on April 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    That is so Minnesota Nice to call to complain and say how disgusted you are that they aren’t open, and then end with “thank you.”

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