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by epaga·15y ago·view on hn ↗
The best part of that page is comment #4 (quoting)...

Reminds me of conferencing calling two Dunkin’ Donuts together and listening silently as hilarity ensued:

"Hello, Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes, this is Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes, this is Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes."

"Hello?"

"How can I help you?"

"This is Dunkin Donuts."

"Yes, it is!"

"Hello?"

It was the last time my friends’ parents let us use their fancy new (1983) Merlin phone unsupervised.

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There's an amusing prank where you call two Chinese restaurants: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz9ra9FqNKQ

(I think they pulled this prank on a late night show as well, I can't find the video though.)

Related call where 2 sex line workers are let loose on each other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoyDQ327mm8
Not that I have any experiences in this regard, but I hear that SkypeOut and the conferencing feature is ... convenient.
Back in the days of phreaking, this was called a 'Cheese Box' and was used to great effect by calling two locations of any chain. From what I recall, a report in Phrack called two 711 employees who started yelling at each other 'NO, THIS IS 711, WHO IS THIS‽'