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Inner_Salamander1895 t1_jdowktx wrote

The number was banned in Nashville for years until a plumbing company asked to have it a while back.

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allangee t1_jdp64r8 wrote

If I ran a business that would benefit from awareness, I would get that number. People would call, even knowing the business owned it, and tell their friends about it.

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Drewlytics t1_jdp9960 wrote

I was an annoying middle schooler then and I lived in an area (one of many, I'm sure) with an 867 exchange that was local and not long distance.

Whole I don't remember the outcome, I can absolutely guarantee that I personally contributed to that number owner's misery and madness around that time. I'm sure I wasn't alone.

Belated apologies, stranger!

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the_random_walk t1_jdppfg6 wrote

I heard that Rolling Stone published the personal numbers of everyone in the band as retribution for all the people getting calls as a result of the song.

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Adventurous_Yak_9234 t1_jdqsfsl wrote

Imagine being a random person with that phone number just getting calls asking for Jenny.

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Seedpound t1_jdraftj wrote

Ahhh the good ol' days -I was 17 at the time fixing to screw my whole life up 🥴

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lior8a8 t1_jdwj3qp wrote

There was a song in my country which also had a phone number in it, the number was the artist's number, she put there to show that she can, but after it started to annoy her how she just kept getting called so she donated it too a suicide prevention line

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