Not many major cities began with those combination of letters. So the phone companies kept numbers for internal use only. When movies and TV shows began using phone numbers more frequently in their plot lines, people who actually owned those numbers started to complain that they were getting too many prank phone calls. So the phone companies reserved through to for fictional use. Some films as far back as the early '60s used the prefix. In the mid-'70s, the running joke on The Rockford Files was that every episode began with private eye Jim Rockford getting a message on his answering service from someone chasing him for money.
A close-up of his phone revealed his number: Conclusion number 2: you haven't got a prayer. A dating columnist once put her real phone number on the cover of a magazine. Nickelodeon Magazine has a format for E-mail addresses and domain names for their pranks: they use the. Rail magazine's humorous column "The Diary of Derek the Diesel" gave Derek the number — in real life, number was never carried by a Class 47 locomotive, with the sequence skipping from to Renowned Russian rocker Boris Grebenschikov has a song about the phone number , which was a fake number There is now a washhouse in St.
Petersburg that keeps getting calls from B. In the US, this number called a relevant recorded message. Fans in the UK were just bothering an innocent family. However, it's a real number: The band are Australian, and phone numbers in towns outside the capital cities there were actually six numbers instead of seven back in the s. Slipknot 's song "The Heretic Anthem" featured the chorus: "If you're then I'm ", though the lyrics feature no real Satanic overtones and the use of the number was really just for shock value.
Since is commonly used as the exchange for phone numbers in movies and television, the line could be interpreted to mean that if you're trying to fit in and be acceptable, he's trying to be edgy and unacceptable. Take my number down. It's I've got an answering machine that will talk to you. Area code is reserved for directory assistance purposes, though Wikipedia is rather unclear as to what those are.
The incomplete form used for a website name in the Animaniacs song "LA Dot" "You can find me on my webpage spot: w w w dot dot dot" Glenn Miller's song "PEnnsylvania " was the number of a hotel the band had performed at - the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, which continues to use the number to this day. Song co-writer Mickey Stevenson later admitted that, while they did check if the number was not in use, they only checked in the Detroit area, which supposedly resulted in a slew of calls asking for the Marvelettes to people who really had BE as their phone number.
Coincidentally, the number is one digit away from the below-mentioned "". Which is still a bane to anyone in the US with this number.
A few scans of the number in every area code have been made: this one-man effort in , this collaborative effort in and an attempt at a wiki whose last sign of life goes back to All three have found that most were disconnected for obvious reasons , but most that worked went to voicemail, and most of those made some reference to the song ie, " This is Jenny, leave a message.
It uses the number for potential franchisees. Two extensions in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts are owned and trademarked! Their television and radio commercials prominently feature the number, but they aren't allowed to use the Tommy Tutone song or even a soundalike their jingle that uses the number sounds like it was intentionally written to sound as little like "Jenny" as possible. Gem even sued a national plumbing outfit for using the same number for their toll free line.
That case made national news and greatly annoyed Tommy Tutone singer Tommy Heath, who called the whole thing ridiculous courts ultimately found for Gem, since they had the trademark. Rumor has it that attracting crank calls was the purpose of the song: it was written to get back at the singer's ex. During the song's release, it was a working number and you could hear Mix say pre-recorded messages for 99 cents a minute. When he let the number go, several companies attempted to use it when it went back into circulation mostly phone sex lines ; it eventually was retired from the pool because of the song and people calling looking to talk to Mix.
And, eventually, most of the numbers going the way of the dodo anyway, thanks to changes in both laws governing them and technology. At the time the song was originally written and recorded in , that would make the full number By the time of Elvis Presley 's famous cover in the area code had shifted to , and Norfolk is now served by area code In Darkbuster's "Gurley's Cellphone Number", the chorus repeatedly gives out the actual cellphone number of their bassist the "Gurley" of the title , and the lyrics even revolve around how much he would love receiving calls from strangers at all hours of the day.
The pay phone's number, , was recited in the lyrics but without the Wirral area code that would put callers through to the actual box. Anybody dialing the number without it would just get through to someone near where the caller lived.
Mids rapper Mike Jones gave out his real phone number - - on several of his hit songs. The gimmick helped him stand out, however briefly, amongst the crowd of Southern rappers in the era.
Logic , Alessia Cara and Khalid's "" is a real phone number — specifically, the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Since it is not a toll-free number outside North America, overseas releases add a disclaimer on international calling charges and may even list an equivalent local number. It's a San Diego number. Starting a mode in Dialed In! Each of the numbers it displays begins with Puppet Shows.
Sesame Street : In a mind s episode, The Amazing Mumford sets up an instant magic hotline with the phone number In a episode Snuffy gets a magic ukulele. The number to call to have it activated is UKE.
After he accidentally breaks the ukulele the hotline to get it fixed is OOPS. With a line dance. Douglas Adams used a seven-digit number for a measurement of probability in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Due to the Infinite Improbability Drive, the number turned out to also be the phone number of the Islington flat where Arthur met Trillian at a party. Unfortunately, Adams used the number of his own flat, also in Islington.
The official script book contains a footnote that the tenant who lives there now has nothing to do with Hitchhiker , and doesn't appreciate prank calls. Between a couple of updates to the UK area code system, the introduction of commercial competitors to British Telecom and the increasing popularity of cellphones it's rather unlikely that the number still works.
The movie , in addition to updating the number now to reflect said changes to area codes, replaced the number with a straight example - XXX is the range that Ofcom blocked off for fictional London numbers. In some editions of the six-book trilogy , Adams writes about how the whole story came to be. The anecdote concludes with a section called "How To Leave Earth.
What they all think of prank calls from H2G2 fans is unrecorded. Video Games. The Adventures of Willy Beamish both uses this and "real" numbers. Whenever someone leaves a phone number on the Beamishes' answering machine, it's a number. But a phone booth in West Frumpton instead has normal phone numbers scribbled all over it, two of which are plot-critical.
Batman: Arkham City features these with Zsasz when he plays his payphone killer game. Every payphone in Arkham City has a area code and prefix, and neither has a real world counterpart. Mark's Place advertising "accurate psychic readings" gives the number Burning Fight has one background warehouse whose awning bears the number The Call of Duty series has portable toilets in some areas such as Overflow and S.
In real life, that phone number goes to The Toronto Therapy Network , a directory of therapists in the Greater Toronto area. The therapist you see, Dr. Susan Melville, is fictional however. The old Fahrenheit text adventure yes, it exists. Yes, Bradbury wrote a good chunk of it had this as a plot point, complete with Zeerust flavor. The game also included numbers which, when dialed, gave useful information, utter garbage, or fake "hints" that would get you killed if you tried them.
The original God of War has two secret phone numbers - one for finishing the game on God Mode, and another for destroying the statues near Kratos's Olympus throne at the very end of the game, which requires about five minutes of solid smashing. The first phone number is given as a phone number, but the second only appears as what appears to be a bunch of randomly-placed numbers. Follow them left to right and from top to bottom to get the number. As of December , twelve years after the game's release, both numbers still work.
In the Grand Theft Auto series, if a Parody Commercial has a phone number, it's probably a real toll-free number. At the time of the game's release, calling the number would get you a recording relevant to the ad, typically giving more detail on the product. Extremely handsome man, lots of money , sick body, seeks lady friend who's smart enough to know a frikkin' catch when she's got one.
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Anyway, give Bombinomicom a call. I am a real good conversationalist, and I got a lot of bombs too. It's pretty good. How many of these did you play? Biddi biddi biddi, oh Buck! Debuting in the novella Armageddon A.
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