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TIFU setting my voicemail greeting while watching NSFW TV

Around 10 years ago our office changed phone systems and we were required to set it up before we can do phone conferences. I figured I would do it while watching a TV show, The Good Wife, with my family.

Well it got to the point where the setup asked me to record my name for my voicemail greeting at the tone. At the same time of the tone, Alan Cumming delivered the amazing line "the thought of my semen mixed with Bin Laden's". Of course my family and I all started giggling at that horrible timing and I gave up and decided to put off setting up the voicemail.

Months later I got dragged to an HR meeting without my manager. The lady started with "well I think you know why you are here but I'm really troubled why you'd do it". It turns out, the first recording took effect. Not only was it used for voicemail but it's also used for our phone conferencing system. It had been announcing "semen mixed with Bin Laden has joined the meeting" to every call I dialed into, which was maybe 2 or 3 per day for months. Luckily I was able to clear this up and they were able to validate the story against the logs but I almost got fired by HR over this.

TLDR: Recorded my work voicemail greeting while watching The Good Wife, and my name was "my semen mixing with Bin Laden's" followed by giggling

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