Re: Chimps outsmart college students

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:20:18 +0100, Peter Bruells <usernet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Peter Bruells <usernet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Peter Bruells wrote:
>>>> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> I remember our original phone number.  My parents changed numbers
>>>>> when I was about 6, because we got lots of prank phone calls, and I
>>>>> didn't figure out why that was until much later.  (It ended in
>>>>> "3825").
>>>>
>>>> Is that the president's number?
>>>
>>> Phones in the US have a set of three or four letters for most of the 
>>> numbers.  ( 2 =ABC, 3=DEF, ..., 9=WXYZ).  Come to think of it, I don't
know 
>>> if phones in Europe have that too. 
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>> Ah, gotcha.  Yes, European phones do have letters and they follow the
>> same layout these days , but at least here in Germany vanity numbers
>> never got very popular.
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>Argh....
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>According to http://www.phonespell.org/
my fax is 570-a-dick. At least
>my business number is nicer: 570-adieu.

While I have a phone number that spells absolutely nothing.

Rebecca