My friend had her phone number listed under her cat's name ... "Sylvia Poontang". Can you imagine? "Hello? May I speak to Ms. Poontang?"
I am always polite to telemarketers. Why? I was a telemarketer when I was a teenager. I sold the Chicago Tribune over the phone back in 1980 to go to my very first Science Fiction Worldcon . It took the entire summer and I quit as soon as I had enough money.