In recent news,
Santa Clara County’s 408 will spin off a new area code: 669
By Bruce Newman
bnewman@mercurynews.com
Posted: 03/07/2011 06:18:25 AM PST
Here are some neat, poetic-like words this journalist has used in this article. It’s a delight to read contents with familiar “American” culture and is funny, too!
- the naked city
- 4G-enabled baby pacifiers
- the Orwellian-sounding North American Numbering Plan Administration, or NANPA
- a Balkanization of the chattering classes, with 408 Hatfields on one side and 669 McCoys suspiciously screening their calls on the other.
- 666 is not being used anywhere, unless you are direct-dialing Satan.
And that’s what will happen to our land line: It will have an area code which closely resembles a “Satanic” number 669 (which has numerical variations of 699, 696, 969, 999 (from a CA license plate number en route to this morning’s mass), and 966.)
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