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Dude. Who tried to call my cell phone from area code 888 while I was in the shower just now?

Maybe it was me. I mistyped the lj phone post number as I was dialing to make a phone post and I was doing it from a calling card.

Also: most telemarketers = 888 numbers.

Hee! What's the LJ phone post number you were using?

Yeah, but it was my cell phone, so if it was a telemarketer, CLEO SMASH. (888, I discovered, is also a town in Oklahoma and two towns in Canada.)

Long beach california, or something.

But you're in Alabama, so I would've had to mistype the area code.

Go check out my phone post though! :D

Really?
Strange.
Maybe all the telemarketers I hung up on are hot guys who want to make love to me, but they live in Oklahoma and/or Canada.

actually, most telemarketers are sneaky and block caller ID. many non-profit and political call centers show up as 800 or 888.

I get telemarketers keep callin my cell these days and I'm even on the Cell phone version of the No Call List!!!

Isn't that an 800 number equivalent? I suspect a telemarketer.

That's weird. Political operatives and charities are exempt from the do-not-call restrictions; maybe it was one of them?

888 is toll free business I believe.

http://www.computerhope.com/areacode.htm ---- yup. Domestic toll free is calling you.

Hey! 888 is also the code for a town in Oklahoma and two in Canada! Please let me believe it was a real person and not a TELEMARKETER on my CELL PHONE CLEO SMASH!

It could have been a legitimate business and not just a telemarketer. It could have been a real person who was calling you from work! :)

hope springs eternal!

888, I discovered, is also a town in Oklahoma and two towns in Canada.

Huh, I didn't even know that it was possible to have an area code assigned to more than one place.

The cell phone provider called me to offer some feature or other. It had a 888 number. Riot act was read.

So, does this mean we can all make as many free calls as we like to some town in Oklahoma?

I'm amazed that a "domestic toll free" code is overloaded with a real world locational area code.

lmao

Actually it's not. the 888 in Oklahoma is an exchange not an area code - their area codes are 405 580 and 918. 888 is a toll free exchange used in Canada and in the US.

The Ghost of Christmas Past!

Er. Sorry. Anyway, question: Will you be in my collage? (http://www.livejournal.com/users/foresthouse/221542.html)

Completely anonymous as in no one will know which of the (so far) 30 people you are. But I'd like to include you :) Send pic to my email if you want to join the fun. :)

That's either a telemarketer, a bill collector, or something calling toll free.

All these numbers are toll free:

1-800
1-888
1-866
1-877

And some others, I'm sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_area_codes#800

888 is a toll free number, so it's either a telemarketer or a non-profit, possibly a political or charity call.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-free_phone_number

If you need someone to look up the number for you, I'm your girl. I do skiptracing for a living: try to to track down deadbeats' #s/adds all day long.

Could be someone using a calling card....

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!

since when did yall start bathing back home?

A brotha leaves for a few years and everything goes willy nilly.

Yeah, sorry we didn't tell you. We instituted a new rule down here...one bath a year, whether you need it or not. :o)

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