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Brian Damage · 02-01-2009, 06:31 PM

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. — 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.

The 28-year-old Potter says he's selling his business, A Blast Entertainment, and moving to New York. The business and the phone number are for sale on eBay, where the high bid was about $1,000 by Sunday morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,486391,00.html

catlover79 · 02-01-2009, 06:35 PM

Wow, just when I thought I'd seen it all.

ABlairican Pie · 02-02-2009, 02:04 AM

Also, wouldn't the number have to include an area code?

catlover79 · 02-02-2009, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie

Also, wouldn't the number have to include an area code?

Yeah, how exactly would that work?

ABlairican Pie · 02-03-2009, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

Yeah, how exactly would that work?

Funny, you'd think that every phone number in this country which matched that regardless of the missing area code would have all these horny guys all calling up thinking they were "getting lucky".

catlover79 · 02-06-2009, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie

Funny, you'd think that every phone number in this country which matched that regardless of the missing area code would have all these horny guys all calling up thinking they were "getting lucky".

I've heard LOTS of people had their number changed for that very reason!!

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