During this hiatus, they began recording their songs onto an answering machine, and then advertising the phone number in local newspapers such as The Village Voice, using the moniker " Dial-A-Song ".

John Linnell stated in an interview in early 2008 that Dial-A-Song had died of a technical crash, and that the Internet had taken over where the machine left off.

Longtime listeners to Dial-A-Song have counted at least 500 distinct songs and variations recorded by They Might Be Giants, making them one of the most prolific rock bands in history in terms of published material.

Based in Brooklyn, NY, Dial-A-Song was often difficult to access due to the popularity of the service and the dubious quality of the machines used.

On November 15, 2008, the Dial-A-Song number was officially disconnected, though it has at times been used in a similar style by independent artists.

Much like TMBG's Dial-A-Song, CoRo's Union Maid offers a new song every day.

* Ask Doctor Maddow — This segment, which usually aired at the end of the first hour, consisted of Maddow, answering a question from a listener who either sent it through email or phoned it in on the " Ask Dr. Maddow " hotline.

The direct mail campaign consisted of 3 intra-state mailings of 1680 letters each and 6 out-of-state directed to electronics, plastics, pharmaceutical, and business machine manufacturers, and to publishers.

As he applied the applicator extending from the machine -- which consisted of seven differently colored neon tubes superimposed on a rectangular base -- to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs. Shaefer's body, Lee kept up a steady stream of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

Referring to his 1936 publication, Turing wrote that the Turing machine, here called a Logical Computing Machine, consisted of:

His electrocardiograph machine consisted of a Lippmann capillary electrometer fixed to a projector.

It was consisted in reading the market informations as price, volume, orders size, speed, conditions, bids for buying and selling, etc ; printed in a paper strip which ran through a machine called a stock ticker.

His modification consisted of a paper tape reader from a teletype machine attached to a small device with metal " feelers " positioned to pass electricity through the holes.

His new songs were incomplete, and some consisted of little more than a drum machine rhythm and lyric fragments he had drawn from a hat.

This machine consisted of lancet-shaped blades working on a fly-press principle and piercing the paper with a series of cuts.

The machine consisted of between two and 16 cpus, organized as a fault-tolerant computer cluster packaged in a single rack.

The machine consisted of 2, 048 AlphaServer SC nodes ( which are based on AlphaServer ES45 ), each with four 1. 25 GHz Alpha 21264A ( EV67 ) microprocessors and two rails of the Quadrics QsNet network.

The KOL primarily consisted of previously unorganized semi-skilled workmen and machine operators.

The album consisted of Harper's songs and poetry backed by acoustic guitar and recorded with a Revox tape machine by Pierre Tubbs.

A fire team consisted of an antitank gunner, usually armed with a Russian made RPG-7s or RPG-18s, a machine gunner and a sniper.

McCarthy estimates he has typed around five million words on the machine, and maintenance consisted of " blowing out the dust with a service station hose ".

The machine consisted of a wedge-shaped metal box about half a metre on the side, with a keyboard at the front, a cassette tape recorder ( s ) in the middle, and a tiny one-line plasma display at the top.

The secondary armament of the fighting vehicle consisted of two 12. 7 x 108 mm DShK machine guns, one anti-aircraft and one co-axial.

Three days later he was picked up and based on the information that he provided it was determined that the garrison on Guernsey consisted of 469 soldiers, concentrated mainly around St. Peter Port and although there were machine gun posts all along the coast, they were sited in a manner that meant that it would take about twenty minutes between an alarm being raised for reinforcements to be dispatched.

It consisted of 157 machine gun positions and eight artillery positions built of concrete.

The Pasha I formation consisted of eight machine gun companies, the 601st to 608th Machine Gun Companies ( Maschinengewehr-Kompanien 601-608 ); four defence machine gun platoons, the 133rd, 134th, 135th and 136th Balloon Machine Gun Defence Platoons ; as well as the 60th Foot Artillery Battalion and the 350th, 351st and 352nd Trench Mortar Battalions ( Minenwerfer Battalion 350-352 ) of Austrian artillery.

The machine consisted of a life-sized model of a human head and torso, with a black beard and grey eyes, and dressed in Turkish robes and a turban – " the traditional costume ", according to journalist and author Tom Standage, " of an oriental sorcerer.

The secondary armament consisted of two. 30cal Browning machine guns, one in the bow of the hull and one coaxial machine gun in the turret, and a. 50cal Browning M2 on a pintle mount on the turret roof.

The SM. 79's defensive armament consisted of four and later five Breda-SAFAT machine guns.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

The searching party consisted of the police captain, Welch, Barco, policemen with shovels, newspaper reporters, and cameramen.

With this purified conjugate the best staining procedure consisted of treating the sections with 1: 10 dilution of Af for 30 minutes, washing with PBS for 15 minutes, staining with Af for 30 minutes, and washing with PBS for 15 minutes.

The best staining procedure with this purified Af consisted of staining with the conjugate for 30 minutes and washing in PBS for 15 minutes.

They had courage but their meager training consisted of weekend hops in good weather, in and out of established airports, And the increasingly cold weather soon raised hob with the water cooled engines of their World War 1, planes.

The poem consisted of only two words, the word `` Wait '', repeated over and over at irregular intervals and with different inflections, and then the word `` Now ''!!

They consisted of a new arrangement of `` Nutcracker '' excerpts danced stunningly by Irina Kolpakova and Mr. Sokolev, with a large ensemble ; ;

Early atomic time scales consisted of quartz clocks with frequencies calibrated by a single atomic clock ; the atomic clocks were not operated continuously.

The juries consisted of over 1, 500 artists, scholars, critics and historians, with movies selected based on the film ’ s popularity over time, historical significance and cultural impact.

Together with Parsons and Woolfson, the Project originally consisted of the group Pilot, with Ian Bairnson ( guitar ), David Paton ( bass ) and Stuart Tosh ( drums ).

Alfred's burhs ( later termed boroughs ) consisted mainly of massive earthen walls surrounded by wide ditches, probably reinforced with wooden revetments and palisades.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.

The arrows were made of pine and consisted of a mainshaft and a 15 – 20 centimetre ( 6 – 8 inches ) long fore shaft with a flint point.

The wall consisted of two parapets built with large stone blocks and cemented with an earth mortar called emplekton ( Greek: ἔμπλεκτον ).

It consisted of several Eurocard PCB's with DIN 41612 connectors, and a backplane all based on a 19-inch rack configuration.

The first version of the Aster consisted of four " Eurocard's ", one Z80 CPU card with 64KB memory, one Motorola MC6845 based video card, one double density floppy disk controller card and one " keyboard / RS232 / cassette interface " card.

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

James Lind's anemometer of 1775 consisted simply of a glass U tube containing a liquid manometer ( pressure gauge ), with one end bent in a horizontal direction to face the wind and the other vertical end remains parallel to the wind flow.

The simple Aleut harpoon consisted of four main parts: the wooden shaft, the bone foreshaft, and the bonehead ( tip ) with barbs pointed backward.