Emergency! Emergency! There's an emergency going on!

[QuickDuck]

A quick question to people.

For the emergency services in Australia, you simply dial 000.

I think England is 111 and everyone knows the US is 911.

Is it still 911 in Canada?

Anyone know the number for any other country in the world?

Yes I know i have a weird mind at times

 

[Jim_Henson]

I need a good woman

Dial 555 - oh wait

 

[tendril]

A quick question to people.

For the emergency services in Australia, you simply dial 000.

I think England is 111 and everyone knows the US is 911.

Is it still 911 in Canada?

Anyone know the number for any other country in the world?

Yes I know i have a weird mind at times

Yeah dialling 111 will get you noticed in New Zealand.

 

[QuickDuck]

I need a good woman

Dial 555 - oh wait

thats 0055 muppet man

 

[Pyper]

I believe in Spain it's 066. I always had the phone book handy so I never bothered to remember though.

 

[Guru]

 

[Pyper]

What if the phone book had caught on fire, and you need to call the "El Fiero Departmento?" What then? Huh?

If my apartment was on fire, I wouldn't stop to call the bomberos, I'd get the hell outta there!

 

[Guru]

 

[Pyper]

And lose your phone book?

Hmm, that's true. It actually wasn't a phone book, it was a QDQ (koo-day-koo) and had all kinds of good local information in it.

It would have been a great loss.

Luckily, the only thing that ever got set on fire was the couch, even then for a very brief period.

 

[Jim_Henson]

Oh yeah oh honey, burning down the couch

Yes I know its bad

 

[kjtatts]

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Yeah dialling 111 will get you noticed in New Zealand.

But only when you mention there's a firearm involved......

LOL....

 

[QuickDuck]

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But only when you mention there's a firearm involved......

LOL....

or sheep in danger

 

[kjtatts]

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or sheep in danger

Leave the sheep out of it.............and back away slowly......












Hang on a minute...... you know about the sheep?.... Oh, yeah, you're Australian, of course you do!!

 

[QuickDuck]

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Hang on a minute...... you know about the sheep?.... Oh, yeah, you're Australian, of course you do!!

Well New Zealand was the country that invented velcro gloves.... not that I am insinuating anything... much

 

[kjtatts]

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Well New Zealand was the country that invented velcro gloves.... not that I am insinuating anything... much

Oh and dont forget the Ugg boots.... mmmmmmmmm... soft, warm....... lots of wool.... close to the skin and they last for AGES!... oooooooohhhhh baby!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

And actually, you seem to know about the gloves too.... Australians dont like to feel left out, do they?

 

[QuickDuck]

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Oh and dont forget the Ugg boots.... mmmmmmmmm... soft, warm....... lots of wool.... close to the skin and they last for AGES!... oooooooohhhhh baby!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

And actually, you seem to know about the gloves too.... Australians dont like to feel left out, do they?

LMAO

As soon as i can think of a come back.. you will get one

 

[kjtatts]

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LMAO

As soon as i can think of a come back.. you will get one

Promise me it'll be a good one, Ducky.....

 

[District Line]

The emergency number in Britain is 999.

I think it was chosen because at the time, most phones had dials and the number nine was the shortest to dial.

Anyone remember an old song by Motorhead, it goes:

" Nine, nine, nine - emergency, emergency..."

 

[phrodeau]

The emergency number in Britain is 999.

I think it was chosen because at the time, most phones had dials and the number nine was the shortest to dial.

Anyone remember an old song by Motorhead, it goes:

" Nine, nine, nine - emergency, emergency..."

Honest? On American dial phones, the 9 is second longest to dial, 0 being the longest.

 

[Rex1960]

Germany has 110 for Police and 112 for Fire/Ambulance

 

[Jim_Henson]

Honest? On American dial phones, the 9 is second longest to dial, 0 being the longest.

The australian dial phones were the same as british...

 

[ShyGuy68]

In Denmark it's 112, no matter the emergency

 

[District Line]

Honest? On American dial phones, the 9 is second longest to dial, 0 being the longest.

You're right I just checked it out. I think the design must be universal, Americas, Britain, Australia etc.

I'm mistaken, I've got it garbled. It's the other way around, it looks like the shortest dial number, 111, was not chosen because of the likehood of false calls being triggered accidently.

Apparentlly, technical issues relating to the modification of public pay phones played a part in the choice of 999 as the emergency number.

http://www.sigtel.com/tel_hist_999.html

Additional info, Britain was the first country to have a universal emergency number in 1937.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

The emergency number in Britain is 999.

I think it was chosen because at the time, most phones had dials and the number nine was the shortest to dial.

Anyone remember an old song by Motorhead, it goes:

" Nine, nine, nine - emergency, emergency..."

Oooooh! That's going back a bit! '81? '82?

That was originally a Girlschool song that Motorhead covered on the 'HeadGirl' St Valentines Massacre EP. "Please Don't Touch" with Motorhead and Girlschool, with Motorhead covering Emergency and I think Girlschool did Bomber.

I have it somewhere but not to hand.

 

[Lost Cause]

Number 9, number 9, number 9.....

Oh, I get it now! Why don't they have a universal phone code like ***? With all this anti-terrorism/world domination talk going on, why not?
Damn, I miss rotary phones!