Paul Potts from British talent show

[Dr Mordrid]

Just saw him on the news; JEEZZZ what a voice

[Fat Tone]

OT maybe, but here's a detailed descirption of UK phone numbering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_tele...numbering_plan

[Gurm]

You people are insane. Over here, our telephone numbering system is REALLY simple.

1-ABB-CDD-EEEE

The +1 is, of course, our international designation, but it's also the "toll call" designation. I'll get to that in a minute.

ABB represents the "area code". It's for state-level. Each state has several (used to just have one per, but obviously that grew) A can't be 0 or 1, BB can be anything... except there are a couple of reserved exchanges:

800, 900, 866, 877, 888

CDD is similar, only instead of "area code" it's local exchange. Basically town-level. Again C can't be 0 or 1.

EEEE can be anything. It's your local number within the town.

We haven't bothered re-numbering when adding capacity, because it would piss people off. It's bad enough that nowadays I have to dial "1-774-..."

It used to be that in all areas you could just dial the last 4, and the local switch would know that you just wanted a local call... around the corner. If you dialed 7 digits it would call within your area code. The 1 was for long distance.

Then they switched it so that only the next couple towns were "local", and the 1 was for anything else.

Nowadays, so that they can have one switching system, they have ten-digit everywhere. The 1 is pretty much vestigial.

[az]

Here, we dial 00 before the country prefix, so 001 to get a call to the USA, 0049 would be for Germany, but is not needed when calling from within the country. 030 is the prefix for Berlin, the leading 0 is droppen when a country code is dialled before. Certain services have prefixes as well (0900 for sex hotlines etc, 0800 is toll free, 016x and 017x for mobile networks). My phone number in Berlin is 362xxxxx, so my full number, dialled with country and region code, would be 004930362xxxxx. When calling from Berlin, no prefixes are needed (though the region prefix must usually be dialled when calling from a mobile). The 36 my phone number starts with used to indicate where in Berlin I am living, but nowadays you can take your phone number with you if you move within the same region. Smaller towns have region prefixes up to five digits log, but shorter phone numbers.

[Fat Tone]

Expecting a murcer to call now Az?

[az]

Not really, but I thought it wouldn't do any harm to post the number here, since it's a fairly obscure place, and I needed an example anyway.

[Fat Tone]

Well now everyone on murc has had a chance to put it on their autodial, I'd suggest you change it. It could be used in identity theft, or stalking or whatever.

[az]

Hmm. I trust people, maybe too much. Changed.

[ND66]

You'll get that chance very soon. He won.

...

Tenor Potts grabs US record deal


Opera singer Paul Potts, the winner of TV's Britain's Got Talent, has signed a deal to release his debut album in 15 countries, including the US.
The former mobile phone salesman won fans across the world after 10 million people viewed his winning performance on video-sharing site YouTube.

The 36-year-old Welshman signed a £1m recording deal with show judge Simon Cowell after his win last month.

The album will include Nessun Dorma, which he performed on the programme.

Karaoke competition

The deal will see One Chance released in countries including Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain and Italy.

It includes the UK and Ireland, where it is due to hit the shops on 16 July.

The singer will also embark on a UK tour in January and February of next year, culminating in a concert at London's Hammersmith Apollo on 17 February.

Potts' victory on Britain's Got Talent won him £100,000 and a spot performing at the Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen.

The ITV1 show proved a ratings hit as 11 million people tuned into the final, in which Potts beat six-year-old singer Connie Talbot to the prize.

He first sang opera at the age of 28 for a karaoke competition when he dressed up as his idol, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/6272370.stm

[Jammrock]

Sweet.

[FatBastard]

..... and the Paul Potts CD is out

http://www.paulpottsuk.com/store

[ZokesPro]

..... and the Paul Potts CD is out
http://www.paulpottsuk.com/store

Hey, he's got nice teeth now!

[ND66]

They have discovered one more...

Susan Boyle



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[Jammrock]

That is a nice voice. A good song choice too.

[Tjalfe]

very nice voice, when she was singing.. otherwise, not so much