Lost it
I was once phoned up by a financial advisor, offering the services of his company. As I was thinking about saving some money I took him up on his offer and arranged a meeting.

After agreeing I thought I'd better check out the company, to see if they were any good. I looked up their website and researched the company officers. Turned out that the founder was a South African bloke with an impressive set of letters after his name. I researched a little more, and found out that the guy had degrees and a doctorate from an internet university. When I looked into it, it became obvious that anyone could apply to that university and receive any honour they wanted, for an appropriate fee. There was even a nice quote from the South African guy saying how great the university was.

This put me off the company, so I phoned the financial advisor to cancel the meeting. I got his voicemail, and left a message saying I didn't want to deal with a company whose founder bought his academic qualifications.

Next day I got a call while I was at work, from the big boss. He started to yell at me, complaining that I had embarassed him in front of his subordinates: apparently the advisor had played the voicemail from me to the whole office. I told him I wasn't prepared to work with someone who bought their degrees. He yelled at me that it was a perfectly legitimate university and that he would sue me for slander. I opened the university website and started to quote to him what it said, which made it clear that the degrees and doctorates could be bought. As I read it seems I raised my voice more and more, and he was yelling back at me. Eventually I was standing up, yelling down the phone. Finally I shouted "And that is why I will not be dealing with your company," and slammed the phone down. I got a round of applause from the office for that. Wish I could find the site for the university again, it was quite funny.
(Smale is stuffed, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 10:43, Reply)