I would have called b.s. on the Furbee's if I hadn't heard the thing in action. That poor girl is twenty-five and still talks about her time with the thing before Mom and Dad heard it one night. She was about three then.
The place it came from was part of the old "Value City" chain of stores. I picked up a cheap combo cordless phone and answering machine at one in the early 90's. Unknowingly, it was prone to having it's recorder message chip hacked. I had that thing for about six months, and it got nailed with a bug that made it play, "Deep In The Heart Of Texas", following the "please leave a message" beep. I thought it was hilarious, my wife wasn't happy. Heck, it may have cost all of eight bucks with tax? I bought a better phone.
The best thing to come from there were the cordless doorbells they sold. We lived in a neighborhood about three miles from one of their larger outlets in those days. Half the people on the block must have bought those things? Every time someone had a visitor or a pizza was delivered, there would be five or six doors open w/ people looking around. My wife bought one the things, it got "broken" early on. I figured people could knock if they really needed us.