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  2. Dial-a-joke - Wikipedia

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    Started by Bob Bilkiss of West Los Angeles in 1970, the line was named so to appear last in the Los Angeles telephone directory. Emerging from a wave of Dial-A-Joke numbers in Los Angeles in the turn of the 1970s, [4] Zzzzzz enjoyed a high level of popularity in its day. For several years, it was the busiest residential telephone number in the ...

  3. 15 Funny Numbers to Call if You Want to Crack Up - AOL

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    It’s a cute and harmless number to give out or to call yourself and hand the phone over to someone who’s with you to receive some silly life advice. 10. Kids Pep Talk Line: 707-873-7862

  4. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In Hungary, telephone numbers are in the format 06 + area code + subscriber number, where the area code is a single digit 1 for Budapest, the capital, followed by a seven digit subscriber number, and two digits followed by either seven (for cell phone numbers) or six digits (others). for other areas, cell phone numbers or non-geographic numbers ...

  5. Tube Bar prank calls - Wikipedia

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    Catalog Number 1 The Tube Bar: Cassette Tape 6 November 1988: TeenBeat Records: Teen-Beat 22 [15] 2 The Tube Bar: LP 15 February 1990: TeenBeat Records Teen-Beat 31 [16] 3 The Tube Bar: CD 23 September 1991: TeenBeat Records Teen-Beat 81 [17] 4 Tube Bar: CD 1993: Detonator Records 30414-2 [18] 5 Tavern Tour: Cassette Tape & CD 1997: Padded Cell ...

  6. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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    What phone number can I call to report a spam call? You can call 888-382-1222 or visit DoNotCall.gov to report spam calls, telemarketers or robo-callers. Are 877 numbers spam?

  7. Prank call - Wikipedia

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    British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...

  8. Rejection hotline - Wikipedia

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    Goldblatt says that after observing an awkward situation where a man approached a pretty woman and failed to get her phone number, he came up with the idea of a fake phone number as a subtle way of rejecting the date. While the hotline was set up as a joke, in 2002, a business, RH Brands, LLC, was started based on the website humorhotlines.com.

  9. The Jerky Boys - Wikipedia

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    Brennan began making and recording prank telephone calls in the 1970s, and teamed up with Ahmed, in the late 1980s/early 1990s in their Queens neighborhood. [2] The duo made a number of bootleg tapes of their recorded phone calls that eventually were obtained by New York–based radio personality Howard Stern, who played the duo's tracks on the air.