i already had 4 cuppas
Last night as I was drifting off to sleep, I thought of phone numbers. Thinking back, the sequence of my thoughts must seem rather random: ghost in white, flowers, ghost in white carrying flowers, furry polar bears, ghost in white calling 1800-FLOWERS…
Growing up watching American TV, I always wondered how the heck anyone calls a phone number containing alphabets. Take for example, 1800-FLOWERS. First thought: okay 1800 I understand… but FLOWERS?! How do you dial letters?!
Oh, ABC = 2, DEF = 3 etc. So, F… do I dial ‘3′ thrice? Then followed by ‘5′x3, ‘6′x3 etc? Does 1800-FLOWERS = 1800-333 555 666 9 33 777 7777? What kind of stupid phone numbering system is that? Is there even such a long ass number? Why aren’t they synchronised? Dumb asses…
Then I grew up and learnt the truth*.
*About vanity numbers and who the real dumb ass was.
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so, who’s the dumb asssssss?
Help, I’m out of blog to read. Any recommendation?
Simon – Why don’t you do a Dabido [not the comment sort of Dabido, but the Blog Reading sort of Dabido] and just run down everyones blog rolls. If you read through all of Suans, then chose the next persons and the next persons till you run out of blogs in the world to read.
Suan, please phone 1800-bodohsuan. I think you might be on the other end.
*runs*
thats funny!
Bwahahahahahaha.
meaning what ah??
lolz
ky: who do you think?
simon: go through link lists lor
dabs: hey, dabido picked up :O
raising mercury: oh wells
nottygurl: hehaehahea what do you think?
I still have no idea how vanity numbers work though, and found nothing of help on wikipedia. Care to enlighten me please?
So 4th floor will be 1-800-SLEEPS(753377) or 1-800-SNORES(766737), P*RM should be 1-800-NANTII(626844). MITI 1-800-APLOVE,1-800-POTONG. Ministry of transport 1-800-PKFZ4B , MoH CSL 1-800-BUSTED , 1-800-CHEAPO , 1-800-NOLUCK, 1-800-BSTAB.
leongsoon: heheh yay someone more noob than me
basically you follow the letters lah. e.g. 1800 FLOWERS will be 1800 3569377
moo_t: lingam? 1800 CORRECT
I did? Who is it? How did I do that? I never ask anyone out!!!
Oh, just like T9 dictionary i handphones la? Got it now, thanks!
I’m ashamed to say I only figured it out recently too, when I had to use the system to give my location to an automated rail timetable service on the phone. It’s pretty obvious when you think about it, but then you need to think about it in the right way.
Don’t worry, Suanie… you are in esteemed company!.
Oh, my favourite example was on the back of Santa’s sleigh: “Don’t like my driving? dial 1-800-EATSHIT”