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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: What are 700 and 555 Numbers?
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In article <15341@accuvax.nwu.edu>, SABAHE@macalstr.edu (Arun Baheti)
writes:
  
> I remember about ten years ago when a muscial group (the B-52s?) did
> a song about someone's phone number.  All over the country, the poor
> owners of xxx-xxxx were driven batty by fans just trying out the
> number to see if anything would happen.

Ah, yes, the song "Jenny" by Tommy Two-tone (sp?).  The refrain was
Jenny's number as listed on a bathroom wall: "eight six seven five
three oh nine".  No, *don't* go ahead and call it :-).


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