Tel No. of Mr. Sparkle Factory revealed!
Bruce James Robert Linley
Before it gets edited out in syndication, I just had to know what
phone number Homer was dialing to reach the Mr. Sparkle factory
in Hokkaido. Well, here it is hot off my handy dandy DTMF decoder:
The number is: 9657153618965715361. Since Homer did not start with
011 (the international prefix in the US) is it clear that Springfield
is _not_ located in the United States. :)
Is there any Simpsons' signifigance to this number or is it just random?
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Ian Penney
Bruce James Robert Linley (lin...@netcom.com) wrote:
: Before it gets edited out in syndication, I just had to know what
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The number is random.
some guy in the sound studio probably just dialed any old combination of
numbers.
Culater
Ian Penney
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Huckleberry
In article <5kibfh$n...@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, ibk...@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca
says...
>Bruce James Robert Linley (lin...@netcom.com) wrote:
>: Before it gets edited out in syndication, I just had to know what
>: phone number Homer was dialing to reach the Mr. Sparkle factory
>: in Hokkaido. Well, here it is hot off my handy dandy DTMF decoder:
>: Is there any Simpsons' signifigance to this number or is it just random?
>
>some guy in the sound studio probably just dialed any old combination of
>numbers.
It's not a phone number, but I don't think it's random either. It probably
spells out something on the phonepad that means "You have too much time on
your hands." ;)
Vince Chan
According to PhoneNETic http://www.phonetic.com/ the number
9657153618965715361 doen't spell anything, well, none that I found...
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Webrunner
It is in the us. that is the one thing we know.
Homer: USA USA USA
Bruce James Robert Linley wrote in article ...
>
>Before it gets edited out in syndication, I just had to know what
>phone number Homer was dialing to reach the Mr. Sparkle factory
>in Hokkaido. Well, here it is hot off my handy dandy DTMF decoder:
>The number is: 9657153618965715361. Since Homer did not start with
>011 (the international prefix in the US) is it clear that Springfield
>is _not_ located in the United States. :)
>
>Is there any Simpsons' signifigance to this number or is it just random?
>
Huckleberry
In article <336CE5...@netcom.ca>, tro...@netcom.ca says...
>
>Huckleberry wrote:
>>
>> In article <5kibfh$n...@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, ibk...@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca
>> says...
>> >Bruce James Robert Linley (lin...@netcom.com) wrote:
>> >: Before it gets edited out in syndication, I just had to know what
>> >: phone number Homer was dialing to reach the Mr. Sparkle factory
>> >: in Hokkaido. Well, here it is hot off my handy dandy DTMF decoder:
>> >: The number is: 9657153618965715361. <snip>
>> >: Is there any Simpsons' signifigance to this number or is it just
random?
>> >
>> >The number is random.
>> >some guy in the sound studio probably just dialed any old combination of
>> >numbers.
>>
>> It's not a phone number, but I don't think it's random either. It probably
>> spells out something on the phonepad that means "You have too much time on
>> your hands." ;)
>
>According to PhoneNETic http://www.phonetic.com/ the number
>9657153618965715361 doen't spell anything, well, none that I found...
Maybe it spells something that, when spoken and recorded and then played
backwards, sounds like "You have too much time on your hands." Perhaps you
could check theory out for me.