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[challenge entry] Worldwide, all mobile phones look like this...

/subtle?

From the The World According To America challenge. See all 269 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:24, archived)
# Don't you mean Cell Phones?
555 dead or alive
(I helped save b3ta! Mr Gear the gay-maker, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:25, archived)
# Nicely shopped indeed
where did you get the lines effect?

;)

woo
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:25, archived)
# some cnut helped me out ;)
rememeber, smiley face negates every name!
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:26, archived)
# puss ridden wank chop




:)
(I helped save b3ta! Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:35, archived)
# you say the sweetest things
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:35, archived)
# it's ok, my smiley face indicates no offense meant.....

you badly bruised blister on the back of a bulging bell end


:)
(I helped save b3ta! Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:38, archived)
# Pfft!
Triffic as always!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:26, archived)
# haha so true
apparently the BBC have a list of telephone numbers for use, and presumably they might get reused so the phone number for a minicab firm in one programme could be the phone number for the Queen Vic. Maybe. Or something.
(I helped save b3ta! brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:27, archived)
# YAY!
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:28, archived)
# I don't get it :(
what's the 55 about? is it an american dial code?
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:29, archived)
# anyone gives a phone number in any
American TV show or film and the area code is always 555
(I helped save b3ta! brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:29, archived)
# well,
I have learnt something today.

Is there any reasoning behind it?
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:31, archived)
# i think hollywood started it all...

an old shop from eons ago, before I got 'better'
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:32, archived)
# hahaha!
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:33, archived)
# I think it started off so they weren't real telephone numbers
but I think these days, because so many people have noticed it in the past, they just do it for a laugh.
(I helped save b3ta! brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:32, archived)
#
It doesnt exist in the real world, so there's no chance of some film having a real person's number
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:33, archived)
# presumably sililar to the BBC in
brianftang's post above
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:33, archived)
# Because it's not a valid area code
so there's no danger of them accidentally using some poor bastard's home phone number in Iowa as that of Ghostbusters HQ or whatever.

edit: well, i'm glad i typed that. helpful! ;)
(I helped save b3ta! grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:33, archived)
# because
no phone numbers in the US actually begin with 555. It's to prevent bored people from dialing up numbers mentioned on TV shows and harassing some random person.
(norumbegan, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:33, archived)
# Interjections 'r' us.
They do, however, occasionally use real numbers in movies/shows. The number of JD's cellphone in Scrubs, for instance, is a real number - if you call it, you get through to either an answering service that updates you with info on the show or, if you call at the right time, someone on set might pick it up. Hot damn, random info.
(the nightmare of cake, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 1:06, archived)
# ^pick any one of the above^
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:34, archived)
# cheers.
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:36, archived)
# hahaha
*over-explains*
(I helped save b3ta! Just Flange, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:40, archived)
# So
Let me get this straight? They don't use the phone number prefix 555 why?
(I helped save b3ta! Mart No Fool No posts but lots of stalks recently., Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:59, archived)
# there all cnuts?
(pdjpdj, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 10:36, archived)