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[Commander]

Who still answers their telephone by stating their phone number?

And if not, when did this die out?

I don't think anyone has ever done it with a mobile phone, unless they were a complete maniac. But when did people stop doing it with landlines, and why? Or why did they do it in the first place, in fact?

I'm considering bringing it back.

 

[The Clamp]

My mother insisted we answer the phone in such a way when we were kids.

Last time I did it was maybe 1986?

 

[Wozza]

I assume it started because you were manually put through by an operator, who could make a mistake?

(I remember my grannie having a four-digit number!)

 

[jcdenton08]

“4291?”

 

[Dirty Dave]

Who still answers their telephone by stating their phone number?

And if not, when did this die out?

I don't think anyone has ever done it with a mobile phone, unless they were a complete maniac. But when did people stop doing it with landlines, and why? Or why did they do it in the first place, in fact?

I'm considering brining it back.

No, but I answer my door by saying my address

 

[Wozza]

8049, it's the Seagull line...

 

[GloryDays]

My dad does it.

 

[Blatter]

American Emergency Services - "911. Which Service do you require?"

 

[Pevenseagull]

I still say, "Ahoy-hoy"

 

[KZNSeagull]

My Dad insisted that we all do it and that is about the only phone number that I can still remember from those days. I cannot remember any of the ones I had once I moved out and have trouble remembering the landline one I have now! I have absolutely no idea what my mobile number is - when asked I have to look it up.

 

[Weststander]

Probably died out with almost everyone opting for x-directory and the introduction of 141 and 1471. And phone numbers getting long.

My sister-in-laws landline voicemail message started with her stating the very easily read 6 digit number.

1990's?

 

[Stat Brother]

Answers the phone?

Mine is permanently on silent.
Nobody ever calls me, except for one person - because there's always one person.

I usually let their missed calls go above 5 before texting 'what's up?'

 

[Cotton Socks]

I stopped doing it when I became a rebellious teenager and couldn't be bothered to say the number anymore, so just opted for 'Hello'. I actually used to get told off for it, my reasoning that they knew the bloody number as they had just called it fell on deaf ears.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

There’s a world of difference between answering with a 4 digit number and an 11 digit mobile number. I still remember my landline number from when I was a kid I said it that many times. We haven’t had a landline since around 2007.

 

[Wes Tupper]

We were Woking 5420!

 

[Norman Potting]

Who still answers their telephone by stating their phone number?

And if not, when did this die out?

I don't think anyone has ever done it with a mobile phone, unless they were a complete maniac. But when did people stop doing it with landlines, and why? Or why did they do it in the first place, in fact?

I'm considering brining it back.

Stopped probably when we got a home phone with the ability to programme handsets to which we could link to the names we had input to them.

 

[Beach Hut]

“4291?”

Hello Victor

 

[Justice]

Ah the days when the phone directory was as thick as a concrete block. You could easily look up girls numbers in those days and have a bet with mates to call up and ask them out.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Who still answers their telephone by stating their phone number?

And if not, when did this die out?

I don't think anyone has ever done it with a mobile phone, unless they were a complete maniac. But when did people stop doing it with landlines, and why? Or why did they do it in the first place, in fact?

I'm considering brining it back.

When I was in the Cubs it was part of our Communications Badge to ensure we knew to answer the phone with "This is Brighton 503547" - still remember my parents number 50 odd years on. Might even give it a ring to see who has it now - obviously with a 1 added.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

This thread reminds me of the origin of the bellcheeses at work thread "'Hello CTU' - add an N and rearrange the letters mate!"

Speaking of which I was at the George in London Bridge with some mates the other day and a bloke was in the courtyard signed off his phone call with "Welcome to the layer cake" which immediately made me think of NSC and the bellcheese thread.