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#1: Gypso (Gypso) on Sep 15, 2007 [SPOILER]

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cleverness at its best

question from somewhere in quebec: what that number exactly ? Don't you have the 911??

we have 112

Thank you Sylvain. The numbers were just random. But I think it's really interesting that you and I have 911 as an emergency # and M2 has 112!
Anyone else have different emergency rescue numbers?
Does anyone know how we derived these numbers? I don't.

Perhaps the answer is here...

http://www.911dispatch.com/911/history/

It's 112 here in Sweden. Mouth Nose Eyes, as some clever person is telling children.

I seem to remember from a song that it's 999 in England.

Very Interesting site Twillis. Thank you for running that one down. It sounds like no one really knows for certain why we use 911 here in North America but the speculations sound reasonable. I would guess that the numbers used in other countries were chosen based on similar reasons.

It sounds like the concept started in England with 999. The real mystery is why they chose that. Those of use who remember rotary phones know how annoying dialing three nines in a row would be. Takes a long time. Must be frustrating in an emergency. That it got shortened to 911 in the US (and apparently New Zealand at least initially used 111) makes total sense.

Interesting... I found this page - http://www.sccfd.org/travel.html
It looks like there is 112 for Russia as well, but I've never heard of it. It's probably very recent addition. 01/02/03/04 were standards for fire/police/ambulance/gas leak as long as I remember. I think the idea was that there are no phone #s starting with 0, so you dial that, and then - one of the basic #s

VERY cool Yulia!! How did you find your way to this site?. Are you from Santa Clara County? This is a site well worth bookmarking. Very handy. Thank you! ^v^

Don't even ask, Gypso :) No, I'm not from Santa Clara, I just found their fire dept page randomly googling.. Thank you for the puzzle and a food for thought :) !

Oh, oh! You know Yulia, it wasn't until you said, "Don't even ask, Gypso", that it occurred to me that you might have had need of emergency services in a locale who's emergency number was unknown to you. But I won't ask you, as you have asked me not to do so. I hope everything went well. :)!

this one is my favorite so far

Thanks Harris

Its so funny there is quit a few skandinavian in here. We have 112 in Denmark like in Sweden and i think Norway has it too. We have had it for about 15 years cant remember what it was before however something with a 9 in it. Foregive me I was only around 10 bag then.

Glad that you didn't need to call for help back then Rea. :)

No mobils back then and im preatty sure my mom had a stikker on the fon just in case.

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New to WEBPBN site, but I had to say I found these puzzles and I am totally addicted!!!! I have to limit how many I can do at a time or I will sit all the time and work puzzles. Thanks!

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