Googling will tell you all about Jenny & Tommy Tutone.
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/8675309.htm has an article on it.
--John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey Sharp
> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 15:27
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Nationwide LD Calling (Was: Depressing realization...)
>
>
> On Saturday, April 26, 2003, VaxCat wrote:
> > I hook up my old Everex 2400 modem, run zlink, type in ATDT and...
> >
> > (pause)
> >
> > There's nothing left to call.
>
> An interesting development I'm seeing in telephone service
> (at least, here
> in Oklahoma) is the land line telcos offering unlimited
> nationwide long
> distance calling for a flat monthly fee. I presume this is
> an attempt to
> compete with cell phone companies, with whom such service is the norm.
>
> A side effect of the service, if indeed it is being offered
> in most areas of
> the country, might be a renaissance of the dialup BBS in the
> USA. A lack of
> LD charges is also a lack of economic boundaries between BBS
> communities,
> enabling a level of interconnection we have seen only on the
> Internet thus
> far. The service may also enable other enthusiast dialup activity,
> including UUCP networking.
>
> I'm very tempted to sign on to this service. Back in my BBS
> days, I lived
> in a rural town of about 1200 people that was not a member of
> any LATA. Any
> call out of the town's 867 prefix was a LD call. There were,
> of course, no
> BBSes reachable without a LD call, so BBSing was a very rare
> pleasure. It
> would be quite cool to be able to make up for all that lost
> experience!
>
> As a neat note, all the numbers in that town were in the
> 4000-5999 range.
> There was an 867-5309, which matches the name of a song that
> was popular
> some years ago. Folklore says that it used to be the number
> of the grade
> school cafeteria, but that may be a myth. Families of two of
> my friends
> from high school, however, did take a turn each of having
> that number. They
> reported occasional calls from strangers asking for Jenny
> (who, I guess, was
> a character in the song). IIRC, one of these friends may have used an
> answering machine greeting specially tailored to entertain
> these callers.
>
> --
> Jeffrey Sharp
Received on Sun Apr 27 2003 - 14:43:01 BST