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title: "The Conference Call We’ve All Been On"
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excerpt: "David Grady covers all the angles here except calling out and repeating the same bug number multiple times."
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# [The Conference Call We’ve All Been On](https://johnpoelstra.com/the-conference-call-weve-all-been-on/)

David Grady covers all the angles here except calling out and repeating the same bug number multiple times.

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September 1, 2010

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1. [Thom Milson](http://www.sellingthewind.tumblr.com) [December 10, 2010 at 4:31 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/the-conference-call-weve-all-been-on/#comment-325) [Reply](#comment-325) If you think this is funny you will probably enjoy playing this game during your calls, we definitely do down in my office (well I do). It’s essentially Bingo, but instead of numbers being called out you are presented with a board that has common conference call occurrences. During the duration of your call you tick off what has happened trying to get lines or even a full house. You can also share your score with all of your work friends. It’s really fun to get some friendly competition on the go and it also really helped me concentrate from having to listen to all the little things people may say or do. If anyone likes the sound of this you can find it here – [http://www.lifesize.com/bingo](http://www.lifesize.com/bingo) [Reply](#comment-325)

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