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It's been 41 years since the song came out.

Assuming that Jenny was 21 when the song was written, (since there is a chance the number was written on a bar's bathroom wall) she would be at least 62 years old now.

Statistically, there's at least a 1 in 4 chance that Jenny is dead now, and there is no chance that she didn't change her number after receiving 800 million horny crank calls.

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It was about 5 years ago when I realized that 8675309 is hitting all of the numbers on the keypad diagonally in stripes from the upper left to the lower right, skipping 1 for some reason.

Probably so he could rhyme 'mine' with 'nine'

When the song came out, almost all phones would have been rotary dial, so this is probably just coincidental.

On the one hand I'm enjoying wondering what the song would be paced like if instead of touch tone speed each number was separated by how long it would take to return to 0.

8 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit 6 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit 7 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit....

ON the other hand, touch tones were invented in the 60's, so it's possible that they had access to the tech to touch dial at that time.

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