Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Lighter Side: Phone Number Jingles Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 20:42:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Mike Morris Lines: 41 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 456, message 7 of 7 (John Boteler) writes: >In discussing how our analog brains work, the subject of telephone >number jingles in advertisments came up. She pointed out how such a >simple device could jog our memories. >It must have worked because I have never forgotten this one. >Picture it: a small boy next to a huge pile of cookies with chocolate >around his mouth, and the jingle >"How many cookies did Andrew eat? > > ANdrew 8-8000" While not a telephone number, or even a jingle, it reminded me of a gag "memo" that was on the San Diego PD watch commanders bulletin board one April 1st a number of years ago... Before I type what it said, a little info is necessary: Most police departments use a "ten-code" on their 2-way radio: 10-1 means "You're in a bad radio transmission location, I can't hear you", "10-2" means "Your radio signal is good, go ahead", "10-4" is "affirmative", "10-7" means "out of the car, away from the radio", "10-8" means "In the car, available for assignment", etc. There are also the "Code" signals such as "Code 3" meaning that red lights and siren are in use, "Code 4" meaning "Everything's OK, no assistance required", "Code 7" meaning "Out of the car for lunch or dinner", etc. The memo went something like: Units going 10-8 from Code-7 will use proper grammar! No longer will we be "10-8" we will be "10-EATEN"! Since I was in San Diego only for one day (the April 1st of the memo), I have no idea if "10-eaten" was used on the air... Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov ICBM: 34.12 N, 118.02 W #Include quote.cute.standard PSTN: 818-447-7052 #Include disclaimer.standard cat flames.all > /dev/null