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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom,talk.bizarre
- Subject: Obscure and ridiculous fact Number Two (was: National Code Change)
- Message-ID: <7184@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 11:27:20 GMT
- References: <BspqBG.2o8@exnet.co.uk> <1992Aug12.131357.11891@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Aug13.090842.6184@x.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug12.131357.11891@cl.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin
- Fairbairns) writes:
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- # Obscure and ridiculous fact: when last I looked, +44 444 444444 (a
- # Haywards Heath number) was still unallocated.
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- Obscure and ridiculous fact Number Two
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- A friend of a friend had a telephone number of the form 01-xxx 1xxx. If
- you covered up the initial 0, what was left was the dates of the birth
- and death of Lord Nelson. In consequence, if you forgot his telephone
- number, you could find it on the back of an English five pound note.
-
- -- Ken "historian" Johnson <-- Anybody know of anyone born in 1343 and
- dying in 6331?
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