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Ranges for fictitious telephone numbers are common in most telephone numbering plans. One of the main reasons these ranges exist is to avoid accidentally using real phone numbers in movies and television programs because viewers frequently call the numbers used. In North America, the area served by the NANPA system of area codes, fictitious telephone numbers are usually of the form (XXX) 555-xxxx. The use of 555 numbers in fiction, however, led a desire to assign some of them in the real world, and some of them are no longer available for use in fiction. Other areas have different fictitious telephone numbers. To be effective, it must not be possible to change a fictitious telephone number into a real one by adding or changing a few digits. Usually, the number must be unassigned in every area code within the numbering plan. Outside NANPA, special fictitious telephone numbers for mobile phones, premium rate numbers or toll free numbers are sometimes assigned as well. ==Telephone numbers in movies, television and music== Tommy Tutone's hit 1982 song "867-5309/Jenny" identifies a working number in many area codes which continue to receive large numbers of misdialled calls asking for "Jenny" decades later. In 1992, filmmaker Michael Moore unwittingly included footage of himself reciting his telephone number in the documentary ''Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint''. He received 314 phone calls in just the first day following its broadcast on PBS.〔Schultz, Emily (2006). ''(Michael Moore: A Biography )'', ECW Press, p. 96.〕 The all-girl singing group The Marvelettes had an early Motown hit record in 1962 with "Beechwood 4-5789", written by Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and George Gordy. The song became a hit again two decades later when it was covered by The Carpenters in 1982. The makers of 2003 film ''Bruce Almighty'' used 776-2323 which remains unassigned in 1-716 Buffalo (where the film is set). 776 is not a fictitious exchange in other area codes, where subscribers with the matching number were inundated with callers asking for "God". In Colorado the calls were misdirected to KDMN radio; in Sanford, North Carolina the number belongs to a church. 776-2323 was ultimately replaced with a 555 number for television airings of the movie and on most copies of the DVD. "777-9311" by The Time used Dez Dickerson's actual telephone number at the time the song was written, causing his phone to ring off the hook until he had his number changed. In 2014, Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev received over two thousand text messages in a few days after printing mobile telephone +7-9250222285 on a helmet worn during the Sochi Olympics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SOCHI 2014: Call me anytime! 'Bored' Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev receives 2,000 messages after putting phone number on his helmet )〕 In Germany, the 1981 Spider Murphy Gang song ''Skandal im Sperrbezirk'' (Scandal in the Blocked Zone) contains a telephone number, ''zwo-und-dreizig, sechzehn, acht'': 32 16 8. The number is that of a Munich prostitute who operates in the "blocked zone", the area of the city center where street prostitutes were forbidden. The band checked that the phone number was not assigned in Munich, but it was assigned in some other cities. The song was a hit, topping the charts in Germany for 36 weeks; it was #1 in Austria (16 weeks) and Switzerland (11 weeks) as well. It has become an Oktoberfest staple. Singer Günther Sigl said in an interview that the song became "at one time, the most famous phone number in Germany." He added: "As an apology, we paid for some number changes and sent numerous bouquets." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fictitious telephone number」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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