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Spontaneous Research Call

A Spontaneous Research Call, SRC is a prank call placed to a business in order to research how ridiculously far companies will go to please their customers for more business. Such calls may also be made to international embassies and the like, to confirm or deny media reports. They are often prompted by a crazy tabloid news story in popular culture.

Spontaneous Research Calls have been coined and popularized by The Sir Darryl Radio Experience , the most listened to radio program on the internet.

Sir Darryl will call companies and it reveals the absurdity of our corporate and customer service culture that will say yes to anyone who offers money, notoriety or other compensation. Sometimes, the company's spin machine is at work. At other times, these calls expose the genuine professionalism and helpfulness of the representative. Sir Darryl calls funeral homes, landlords, pharmacies and the like, with unusual requests. The responses from the company reps are either completely insane or absolutely logical, but they almost always follow company policy.
In one Spontaneous Research Call, Sir Darryl called a cellphone company to find out if they could send him a separate phone bill that his wife couldn’t see so that he could hide the fact that he was having multiple affairs. The customer service rep suggested different billing options and promising that the company would not reveal anything to his wife. The rep also detailed exactly how it could be done using the company’s various billing delivery systems.
Related Words

spontaneous bidet 

Incident in which you take a dump, and the toilet splashes you back in perineum. This is different from a regular bidet in that it's the toilet water that's splashing you, not a directed tap.
As a rule, this nearly never happens at home, and it frequently happens when you're forced to use a stall with overtly nasty waters or after you've already urinated.
person one: I'm a little worried. I had to use the portajohn at the airshow, and it gave me a spontaneous bidet.

Friend: Dude, you need to see your doctor.

Spontaneous Butthole Evacuation Syndrome 

Some people's buttholes just fuckin fall off randomly. This happens a lot in Norway.
I was diagnosed with Spontaneous Butthole Evacuation Syndrome

spontaneous dental hydroplosion

When your teeth turns to liquid and drips down the back of your throat.
When your assistant to the regional manager at your work asks you to fill out an anonymous paper with diseases or disabilities that you would like covered in your health care plan- write down spontaneous dental hydroplosion in case your teeth turn to liquid and drips down the back of your throat.
habitually and intentionally leaving typos intact in a message transmitted by electronic means, such as in a mobile phone's text message, or e-mail. Often aided by predictive text technologies such as T9. Being spanty is often done to bewilder the unsuspecting, or for personal amusement.
Molly: I'm going to moth the movie and the library today.

Molly: Of course, by "moth," I meant to type "both," but I left it in there because "moth" is awesome.

Jeff: You're so spanty.

Molly: Yeah, I'm book like that.
spanty by Jeff83 February 11, 2009

spontanemum 

A Mother who participates in a spontaneous activity.
She went swimming fully clothed, she's such a spontanemum!
spontanemum by Erica Davis April 29, 2019
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