What phone number's live rent free in your head, and can you remember what they were for?

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BoomalakkaWee@reddit

The number for Beeline Taxis in Sevenoaks c1971 - it was 56214. My parents must have been occasional customers and received a free kitchen calendar from Beeline in 1971 with the number across the top of each page. By an odd coincidence, my coat-peg number in my first year of junior school (1970-71) was 214, then in my second year I was assigned peg 56.

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Ok-Football6675@reddit

I don't know any of the numbers that everyone else has been posting! I know 999 and 111, also one phone number from a house I lived in way back in the 80s. I know our present landline number and my mobile number.

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acarine-@reddit

I certainly don’t know that one “everyone knows”.

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Ok-Football6675@reddit

I don't either, or at least I didn't until I read the answer further down.

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lxgrf@reddit

Would it ring bells if I phrased it "Oh eight hundred, double oh. Ten sixty six!"

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Most_Imagination8480@reddit

I still don't know what it is

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anonymouse39993@reddit

Hastings direct

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mhoulden@reddit

YTV's Christmas Line. Leeds 448199: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5FukEiWFeU

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jimicus@reddit

0118 991 88199 9119 725.... 3

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Sir-Pickle-Nipple@reddit

0118 99*9* 88199 9119 725.... 3

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TheNotSpecialOne@reddit

Damn beat me to it

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The-all-seeing-pie@reddit

God damn it, have an upvote.

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morris_man@reddit

Oh, two, oh, eight, one, two, three, five, eight, double seven. Answer Me This Podcast (just relaunched)

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LillyAtts@reddit

0181 811 8181 Plus all my childhood friends' phone numbers from 35+ years ago.

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Kid_Kimura@reddit

CALL 0800 106107, I SAID 0800 106107 NOWWWWWW!

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McNeil56@reddit

Ahh... you know the one

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Ok-Suspect-9595@reddit

01 811 8055.

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Few-Entrepreneur-924@reddit

Multicolour swap shop

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FloydEGag@reddit

0898 27 27 27 I think it was a chat line, never rang it but it had an insanely catchy ad. 01 811 8055 The number of the BBC switchboard that you called to enter competitions or phone-ins or to [call a pop band wankers](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkB25V_ow8) live on air

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KindOfFlush@reddit

The 8055 number is in my brain forever. When I’m addled with dementia I’ll still be able to call Noel Edmonds on a Saturday morning

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leyland_gaunt@reddit

0800 00 1066 - No idea why I remember an insurance advert

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Medium_Situation_461@reddit

999

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Linfords_lunchbox@reddit

Any Geordies will know *"0191 488 3188 - Get to those phones!"*

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OrangeBeast01@reddit

0891 **FIFTY FIFTY FIFTY** 0891 **FIFTY FIFTY FIFTY** If you know you know.

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Sir-Craven@reddit

0891 50 50 50

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JimmyOpenside@reddit

Oh, a tundred! Sever one, oh!, sever two, free!

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

0800 2 1500 for Lombard Direct

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Monzonmudslinger@reddit

09011 10 50 10

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

Good old CITV

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rbar174@reddit

First one that popped into my head... L&K living forever in my brain

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Monzonmudslinger@reddit

Forever and ever!

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BarraDoner@reddit

090 11 10 50 10

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aerfen@reddit

09011105010 Oh nine oh double one ten fifty, ten!

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parker8ball@reddit

0891 50 50 50! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN-8m2KbJLQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN-8m2KbJLQ)

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minadequate@reddit

Tbf I had to look this up but I’m surprised there hasn’t been the following mentioned yet: 07770 774 914

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PabloMarmite@reddit

0818118181 Going Live

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Ok_Comfortable_3880@reddit

Came to say this and remember the change to 0181 811 8181. Still hear both jingles in my head as I think about it.

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motific@reddit

Beat me to it!

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motific@reddit

118 118

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titlrequired@reddit

081 811 81 81 yeah!

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titlrequired@reddit

I guess we know what people on this sub watched on Saturday mornings.

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lxgrf@reddit

118 118 0118 991 88199 9119 725... 3 0800 00 1066 0800 28 28 20 (pronounced to sound like an owl) And a local one: Triple 5, Triple 4, brings a taxi to your door.

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LaraStardust@reddit (OP)

ha! Ours is 333 444

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rupturedegg@reddit

0800 11 11 Sadly I had to use it. Fortunately it was there for me.

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Albert_Herring@reddit

The number of a phone box outside Legendary Lancashire Heroes offie on Burton Road, Withington, opposite my mate's flat in 1981-3, where I used to phone him back after he called without putting any money in. And a bunch of old personal and family ones that I shan't disclose because they're a great source of PINs, and I imagine I'm not the only one who does that.

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Difficult-Bat-4169@reddit

Cannot remember the number for the life of me but there was a sexual health line that we would always ring to prank on days out. We were convinced it was a sex workers line, it was actually for sexual health advice 😂

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Mackem101@reddit

For people from north east England of a certain age, "0191 488 3188 get to those phones". It was a late night phone in talk show called Night Owls, and you got some absolutely surreal people phoning in.

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shinealittlelove@reddit

0800 00 1066

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Workingclass_owl@reddit

4291

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RagingFuckNuggets@reddit

As young kids (11-13ish) we used to have a weird obsession with the sex line number, 0800 28 29 30. This was when we got our first phones (Nokia 3310 then a Siemens a65). Much simpler time and so naive to the dangers of having a phone.

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domalomalom@reddit

0181 811 81 81

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nlcdx@reddit

0898 40 40 40 fun time 24 hours a day.

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elethiomel_was_kind@reddit

[Chatback](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN-8m2KbJLQ)!

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Usual_Neck_4205@reddit

I know my own mobile number and 999

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plastictomato@reddit

118 247

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