favorite ways to answer....

" it's your dime......spill it!"
" washington fire dept..... you light'em we fight'em"
or the all time fall back " who 'dis?"

The next telemarketer that calls will talk to me doing my best impression of this guy.

Oh the fun that will transpire

This is after I answer the phone, actually, but whenever I get a telemarketer, I say, "Could you hold on a sec?" and then set the receiver down (not hanging up) and walk away.

"Hello, and thank you for calling MovieFone!"

I usually say "Big Pappa's Pizza Palace this is Hector how may i help you"

Just pick up the phone and say, "Ringing Telephone." That stops them dead in their tracks every time.

My ex said Wanna Macka Fiji. Yeah, people hung up a lot. I kinda thought of it as qulity control.