PhoneSpell

http://www.phonespell.org/
One of the great secrets of remembering phone numbers is to assign letters to numbers to create words. Phonespell does the hard part for you. Just feed the site a 7- or 10-digit number to bring up a list of possible acrostic combinations, some of which make sarcastic or silly statements about their owners. After crunching every public number I could think of, I learned that Marion Barry's office sports the stylish number "papa 980," while the vestigial D.C. City Council languishes at "rag-8000." People with tax problems can consult the District Auditor by dialing "rape-600". And finally (this is no joke), sewage problems can be referred to the Office of Solid Waste Management at "pa-shit-a".

(This was reprinted from my Washington Post column in 1998)
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