"Michael L. Starr" <starr@hriso.att.com> (03/14/90)
In article <5002@accuvax.nwu.edu> brock@brock.cs.unc.edu (J. Dean Brock) writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 161, Message 5 of 10 >The March 7 issue of the [Durham Morning Herald] had a front page >article about Charlotte Clark, a 68 year old Durham women, who is >receiving many, many calls from men eager to converse with with >Durham's other Charlotte Clark, a 20 year old Duke University student >who posed for a Playboy feature entitled "Girls of the ACC." This reminds me of an article I read several years ago in the [Washington Post.] The electric company in Virginia changed their name from VEPCO to Virginia Power (apparently to avoid the confusion with another company in the area, PEPCO). It seems that whenever calls to directory assistance came in requesting the number of Virginia Power, the operators gave the number of an elderly woman named Virginia Power. After a period of a constant flood of calls to this poor woman, the operators were instructed to ask callers whether they wanted the power company or the individual. __/\__ ******************** __/\__ | starr@hriso.ATT.COM \ / * Michael L. Starr * \ / | att!hriso!starr |/\| ******************** |/\| | attmail!starr