# What does your phone number spell?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 21, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609 "2000-12-21T00:10:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609/21 "2000-12-21T17:20:36Z")

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mine used to be YOU-SOBS. Which was pretty appropriate, considering that my roommate and I were both SOBs.

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**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609/22 "2000-12-21T17:38:27Z")

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My telephone number spells out 1-800-EAT-SHIT.

I wonder if that has anything to do with those constant calls I’m getting from people complaining about the driving habits of certain truckers?

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609/23 "2000-12-21T19:01:35Z")

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Hey **zev** , you need to do something about that message on your answering machine. It’s way too long.

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**Author:** ![The-Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@The-Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The-Maxx)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609/24 "2000-12-21T19:40:19Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by The-Maxx \*  
> **Here’s a hot tip**  
> I chose my own “special” phone number, and then named the company after it !
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> First I called the phone company to see what numbers they might assign me. They all started with 843-xxxx. I said to halt the order, and I would get back to them.
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> Then looked for words starting with those “numbers” T-U-V, G-H-I, D-E-F.
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> This got me a name starting with THE-xxxx.
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> I tried dialing about twenty of the words I liked starting with THE- THE-BEST, THE-MOST, THE-…
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> I ran out of ideas and my son said there was a cable channel cartoon spy, like James Bond, named The Maxx.  
> That one reached a “not in service” recording so I ordered it.
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> Then I registered the name downtown and in the papers.
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> **So now my name is my phone number, and customers think I’m a bigger company.**
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> My newspaper adds say " our name is our number THE-MAXX (843-6299)"
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> I get repeat orders every year from people who say they haven’t seen our ad lately but remembered the number from the name! \*\*

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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609/25 "2000-12-21T19:58:20Z")

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About 10 years ago, someone (a friend of mine from phone liens) decided to register a number f\*ckyou which is a Cleveland Heights number under the name Jack Meoff. They printed it too.  
She got in trouble too.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609/26 "2000-12-22T13:41:48Z")

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slabs-07

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-phone-number-spell/46609/27 "2000-12-22T21:53:12Z")

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Weird. I work for a Realtor, and ours spells LOT-xxx1.  
We once handled a group of condos with this lot #.

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