From Giles Ward Sent Thu, Nov 27th 1997, 01:48
From Giles Ward Sent Thu, Nov 27th 1997, 01:48
> hey does any one of you (prolly from the uk-types) know the significance of > the following pattern? there's that skam/vvm compilation called > "0161"...about manchester and shit. then there's a pirate radio site out of > london called www.0171.com...what's going on here with the whole english > "01_1" system? what does it mean? highways or bills that have passed or > postal codes or what? 01x1 numbers are our telephone area codes for big cities. 0121 - Birmingham 0131 - Glasgow ?? 0141 - Dunno 0151 - Liverpool 0161 - Manc 0171 - London 0181 - London and many, many more, available this Christmas in a fetching Yellow book. Complete with crayon to tick off the numbers you have dialled. Kingboy G