Poll on the way.
When you hear (or see) a phone number to call on some TV or radio commercial or PSA, do you try to remember it? Or better still write it down?
Do you ever call such a number?
If the poll is not precise enough for your specific case, vote Other and say what yours is.
I don’t know what percentage, but the ones I remember are the ones they sing.
1-800-54-giant
800-588-2300-empire today
Yes. I almost know that Empire number, too. But what provoked this thread was one I just heard (from the other room) of some asshole repeating the same number four times in rapid succession. I could just picture someone racing around the place looking for a pencil and paper. And I have to wonder why that ploy is used in way more than half of TV and radio commercials. Do the people paying for those ads think folks will actually call? Surely some ad organization has some believable stats on such things.
Empire Carpet, as noted above.
Pizza Nova (four-three-nine-oh-oh-oh-oh Pizza Nova!)
United Taxi (six-five-two-twenty-two-twenty-two…six-five-two-twenty-two-twenty-two…)
Pizza Pizza (nine-six-seven-eleven-eleven, call Pizza Pizza, hey hey hey!)
That’s about it, I think.
Almost never. I do know the Empire Carpet one, though.
I also remember to call 555-4444 to tawk to Linda Richmond 
Close enough to 0% that I answered that although there have been a few that I remembers. That reminds me of this spoof from The IT Crowd about British emergency services changing their number:
I don’t know a single one.
The news radio station in NY keeps running these damn car & limo ads reminding you to “dial seven-seven-seven-seven-seven-seven-seven! That’s seven-seven-seven-seven-seven-seven-seven! Don’t forget, call seven-seven-seven-seven-seven-seven-seven!”
By which time, I have shot myself.
That’s ridiculous. Everyone knows that 777-7777 is the number for the Toronto Star classifieds, of course.
As mentioned, the musical ones only.
♫ Call one eight hundred two six seven two-thousand and one, Alarmmmm Force!!! ♫
All that comes to mind is 1-900-mix-a-lot. I don’t think that was in an ad, though.
I have little enough space left in my brain that I actively resist remembering any non-essential phone numbers. Once they’re in there, they never go away.
I can’t even remember the ones I want to remember, like the number to call for a taxi! (I’ve got that one written down on a note-card in my wallet!)
Literally the only one I remember is
1-800-441-2400 because that was the phone number for EVERY damn infomercial back when I watched TV as a kid in the 90s.
Just one: 1-800-STEAMER. And it’s musical.
Other - not zero, but certainly less than 1%.
Joe
I don’t watch tv these days, so I can’t quote an accurate percentage. But I still remember a few from childhood jingles:
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Seven seven three, two oh two… *beep beep beep beep *Luuunaaaaa. *ding!
*Five eight eight, two three hundred… *EMPIIIIIRE! dunk
*Write to me, Stick Stickly, PO Box 963. New York City, New York state, 10108! *Hah!
Man, it’s seriously been like 15 years since Stick Stickly was on the air. How pathetic is that?
None. I have to look up my own phone number, I’m terrible at recalling numbers.
Oh, yes! The dunk and the dog jumping on the couch is the signal that it’s over – for the moment – before they play it again in the same break. I’ve started saying the dunk aloud because my wife hadn’t noticed it before I said something about it. She had noticed the dog, though.
Whoever wrote that Empire jingle is a freakin’ genius.