In The Salmon of Doubt, there is a letter that Douglas Adams wrote to one of the big shots at Disney about his movie deal for hitchhiker’s guide. At the end of the letter, Douglas gave every possible number at which he could be reached including his grocery store and his gym. There were over 20 numbers. Anyway, I want to email this letter to a friend but I can’t find it on the web. Does anyone have a link to it or have the actual document?
Thanks
TSOD is, of course, a work of fiction, and the phone numbers and addresses may also be fictional.
http://www.geocities.com/jos_and_kaija/douglas_adams_on_adresses.html
Don’t say we never do anything for you round here.
Oh, and AskNott: yes, SOD is a work of fiction (or part of one), but the book also includes lots of real documents etc salavged from Adams’s computer. I assume this letter is one of those, and hence real.
I have only just looked at the numbers properly. In case you are not British, a few notes on the numbers:
First, I have no idea why they are all prefixed with 555. Remove this from the UK numbers.
Second, if dialling from in the UK, these numbers need to be prefixed with a zero.
Third, since the letter was written, the code for London has changed from 0171 (inner) and 0181 (outer) to 020, with a 7 or an 8 attached to the start of the number itself, 7 for old 0171 numbers, 8 for old 0181 numbers. E.g. 555 171 555 1700 would in fact be dialled as 020 7555 1700 these days, or from outside the UK, +44 20 7555 1700.
Oh, and fourth: he’s dead! Don’t try to call! 
(More trivia from the letter… listed as “next-door neighbour” is one Angus Deayton…)
In the American media, “555” is the signal for a fake number. There is no 555 area code and there are no 555 exchanges. Therefore, it’s safe for a fictional work to use a telephone number starting with “555,” because if any idiot chooses to dial it, it won’t inconvenience a real telephone customer.