Everything mean nothing to me!! Apart from Creme Eggs I love them

I remember dancing w/ my sister when it played on the radio.  She was much older than I was…so I got exposed to a lot of the 80s stuff that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise remembered.

I think it’s silly they’re fighting over it.  There have got to be plenty of people that don’t automatically know what it is…or remember it b/c of the song.  Think of people who were already adults…and not caring what was on the charts at the time…or the kids too young to remember.

Now…the number my younger sis & I remember all the time is the carpet people…1-800-588-2300 EMPIRE.  THAT made it’s own jingle…and we remember it just fine.

I remember the old Pizza Hut commercials, Call 488-8888 for Pizza Hut pizza, its really great. That may have been a Minnesota thing though.

Also, I had to sing the Empire jingle as I read it.

ha!  The pizza hut we call is something like 684-8888 or something…or maybe 8484 at the end.  We order online a lot now…so I’ve forgotten it.

When I was in high-school we did a little (lame) experiment. We started sing a jingle for a local college in a crowded lunch room. We wanted to see how many people would start singing along. It ended up being a table of 10 or so people yelling,

“One day one night, Saturday’s all right, on-line just fine, night time, anytime. Get your degree, set yourself free. National American University!”

We did get a few people join in.

On a sidenote:

General phone number in the Netherlands of the police is: 0800-8844 which translates in dutch to 0800-TUIG
“Tuig” means scum.

Ooh, I’d forgotten about the Empire one.  I can remember the sound of it, but I would never have remembered the number.

I don’t recognise any of the songs anybody has mentioned on this page.    So if I saw that telephone number anywhere, it wouldn’t mean a thing to me other than being a number.

If it is that famous of a number, though, I would think that the prank callers and people calling just to see what happens when they dial it would get to be annoying.

When that song came out me and my friends endlessly called it. We didn’t try different area codes though, and at first some guy would answer but within a month the number was always busy and then shortly afterwards, disconnected   The poor guy was probably going crazy with people calling him asking for Jenny.

It was such a stupid song too.

Geeze, even NPR had to play the stupid song today.  Still didn’t recognize anything but the numbers, but I was amused by their comment that we listeners will now likely have the song stuck in our heads for the rest of the day because of them.

I’m happy to say that I never pranked that number.  And, yes, I grew up in the ‘80s.  I was 12 in 1982.