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| | Jacquelyn Mitchard: New area codes push all the wrong buttons |
 | | That was the area code for Chicago, for Pete's sake, and anyone could see why it was the area code for Chicago. |
 | | Because New York's area code was "212," Chicago's was "312." The logic is plain: It sort of, but not quite, incorporates the Second City concept, and also features a sporty, hotel-bellhop-whistle sound cities should have on the front end of their phone numbers. |
 | | Now, his area code is "847," an even more insulting and nonsensical area code, added on to his already unintelligible phone number, a string of non-repeating digits without a single rescue cue, not a birthday, anniversary nor even the saving grace of oddsies-evensies. |
| www.chron.com /content/chronicle/editorial/98/02/08/mitchard.html (616 words) |
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