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Once again an e-mail is circulating<\/a>, this time one claiming to provide a recording of an actual answering machine message from Maroochydore High School in Queensland, Australia<\/a>. It isn\u2019t (as one can learn on Snopes<\/a>, it is a rehash of an e-mail\/video that circulated once before some years ago).<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>So by all means enjoy the joke, and perhaps discuss the rather quirky notion expressed towards the end that one nation would consist of inhabitants who all speak a single language. But don\u2019t perpetuate the falsehood that it is a real answering machine message from a real school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5300107906785844361?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again an e-mail is circulating, this time one claiming to provide a recording of an actual answering machine message from Maroochydore High School in Queensland, Australia. It isn\u2019t (as one can learn on Snopes, it is a rehash of an e-mail\/video that circulated once before some years ago). So by all means enjoy the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Not The Answering Machine Message from Maroochydore High School in Queensland, Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Once again an e-mail is circulating, this time one claiming to provide a recording of an actual answering machine message from Maroochydore High School in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/not-the-answering-machine-message-from-maroochydore-high-school-in-queensland-australia.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not The Answering Machine Message from Maroochydore High School in Queensland, Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Once again an e-mail is circulating, this time one claiming to provide a recording of an actual answering machine message from Maroochydore High School in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/not-the-answering-machine-message-from-maroochydore-high-school-in-queensland-australia.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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