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Here’s a New Yorker piece from 1962 mentioning them, at least: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/10/27/comment-4830 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19
by aaronharnly 3y ago
Here’s a New Yorker piece from 1962 mentioning them, at least:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/10/27/comment-4830 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/10/27/comment-4830
- ghaff 3y agoI don't remember the exact timeframe but it wasn't far from then when I switched from Verizon to Comcast and it meant I had to switch phone numbers for exchange reasons. It was sort of annoying and, among other things led to me getting very persistent calls from some debt collector for a while. My cell phone number now is one I've had for ages and actually dates to when it mattered what area code you had for cell for cost reasons based on who you called before "favored" area codes became scarce. Think there was a Seinfeld episode based on that too.
- tedunangst 3y agoHaha, their big plan was to make up new prefix names.
- nemo 3y agoThe prefix names they offered are key to the joke: >The group offers a handy guide to the construction of entirely personal arrangements, such as HAberdasher, YLang-yland, KNife, and WRappingpaper.