[wellylug] linux conf in Dunedin
Wellylugger
wellylug at biker.geek.nz
Tue Jan 24 23:04:02 NZDT 2006
pmilne at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Stephen <andrew at evil.geek.nz>:
>
>> On 1/22/06, Matt <matt-lists at comnet.net.nz> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> What's the 411?
>> Nine eleven minus five hundred?
>>
> A long time ago Ma Bell decided to allocate a series of service numbers and
> decided on X11 where X=2-9. Of course 911 is the best known of the series.
<SNIP>
All well and good, but I think Andrew was alluding to the film 'Team America'
and not to the American phone service per se.
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Colin Templeman
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