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February 01, 2009

You'd have to be really bored . . .

. . . to request one of pop music's best-known telephone numbers for your home:

After five years fielding thousands of calls to one of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated phone numbers, disc jockey Spencer Potter is hanging up on Jenny.

Her seven digits are familiar to anyone who paid attention to pop music in the early 1980s: 867-5309, immortalized by the band Tommy Tutone.

Potter and his roommates requested the number on a lark for their home phone in northern New Jersey. They got it, along with about 30 to 40 calls a day.

If you're equally bored, you can bid on the number through eBay (bidding was up to $3938.88 when I looked).

Posted by Nicholas at February 1, 2009 02:06 PM
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