Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!seismo!sundc!newstop!sun-barr!apple!usc!samsung!rex!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 708 Insanity Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 06:32:59 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 25 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 515, message 6 of 6 On the first official day of the phone network's 708 area code, an official '708 baby' was born into the world. Hilary Lynn Osiecki, weighing 7 pounds, 9.5 ounces was born at 12:03 AM Saturday, November 11 at Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL. She was the first baby born in the Land of 708. Illinois Bell, in a stunt to publicize the new suburban Chicago area code, promptly dubbed Hilary the '708 Baby' and later in the day presented her rather perplexed parents, Linda and James Osiecki, a check for exactly $708. "It's not bad," said James Osiecki, a carpenter in Glenview, IL. "The baby will have something to look forward to. When other kids say their father is a millionaire, she can say, 'I'm the 708 Baby.' " The Osieckis said they will put the money toward Hilary's education -- but I have a better suggestion: use it to pay the outrageous phone bills we get now-a-days since IBT went with totally measured service a couple years ago :) See you tomorrow! Patrick Townson