[Novalug] phones in bogus names

[Dan Arico]

On Fri August 3 2007 3:44 pm, Tux subscriber Dave Aronson wrote:
> Ed James [mailto:edjames at greenbelt.com] writes:
>  >     Actually, my service is in a bogus name anyway.  When I got
>  > married decades ago, I had never had a phone in my name, so the
>  > PhoneCo wanted to charge me a deposit. My wife HAD had a phone in
>  > HER name, so we got a phone with no deposit by using her name.  I'm
>  > divorced, she's remarried, and that name is different now.  But the
>  > PhoneCo gets a check each month, so it's happy.
>
> I've had phone service in a name that never existed.  Back when I ran
> a BBS, named (originally) TIDMADT, I asked the telco for a line for my
> roomie, BB Tidmadt.  So, the white pages listed "TIDMADT, BB".
>
> -Dave

Bet that drove the telemarketers crazy.

Dan

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