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From: optilink!cramer@uunet.uu.net (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Sorry, Wrong Number
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> [Moderator's Note: One example which has stuck in my mind since this
> thread began was the use of BOWery 9-1000. A 'crime on the waterfront'
> type movie from the 1940's (title long forgotten -- anyone remember
> [...]
> tavern, madame."  (woman) "What? What number is this?"  (man) "Boweryp
> nine one thousand. You're connected with the city morgue. Your husband
> is dead, madame; you'll have to come and get him, I'm afraid."  PAT]

The movie, of course, is not a "crime on the waterfront" movie --
it's that most blatantly of telecom movies -- "Sorry, Wrong Number"!


Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
You must be kidding!  No company would hold opinions like mine!