[SamAdams76]

Back in those days, I always wondered why "911" had a nine in it. With a rotary phone, it would add a couple extra seconds to dial the 9 and you would have to wait for your ambulance to come that much longer. So they should have made emergency calls "111".

411 was for information and as kids, we used to call that number to ask things like the current temperature and what the capitol of Kansas was. They always got super annoyed at us for doing that.

There was also a number you could dial to get the current time but I forgot what that one was.

In the 1976 presidential campaign, there was a "Dial-a-Joke" number that we called to get jokes about Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Those jokes were very lame by the way. Anyhow, I did not realize they were charging long distance fees every time we dialed it. My father was so pissed when the phone bill came!

[Delta 21]

Topeka. I know it should be Wichita but the damn liberals have a stronghold in Topeka.

[Responsibility2nd]

Back in those days, I always wondered why “911” had a nine in it. With a rotary phone, it would add a couple extra seconds to dial the 9 and you would have to wait for your ambulance to come that much longer. So they should have made emergency calls “111”.

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Could be worse. Could be Great Britain where the emergency number is 999.