This is cool...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/norad-santa-tracker-origin-story-1.7067662
I have a few "impossible numbers", like 02000 numbers, i.e. London numbers starting 0. I often wonder what would be the best way to answer them as if someone was accidentally calling Q or M...
@revk 'Good afternoon, Universal exports, how may I help?'
@penguin42 @revk "mission designator and status phrase please"
@falken @penguin42 Once upon a time, many years ago, people called from landline numbers and I could get a pretty close location (down to road name) from landline number as the call came in. That would have been very amusing to use when answering such a calls. Almost a shame that privacy laws are what they are now (joke).