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“At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'”

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Author:Jay Leno

“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”

Ends Night Three Voice Numbers Asking Telephones Three Times Wrong Number

Book:The New York Trilogy

Source: The New York Trilogy

“Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."”

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Author:Steven Wright

“My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'”

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Author:Nita Ambani

“Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”

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Author:James Thurber

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

Voice Numbers Humorous Jeeves Wrong Number

Book:The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

Source: The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”

Sometimes Numbers Wrong Number

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.”

Said Numbers Figures Phones Unconscious Alex Salesman Alex Rider Wrong Number

Book:Skeleton Key

Source: Skeleton Key

“I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas”

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Author:Kelley Armstrong

“Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.”

May School Numbers Waste High School Direct Units Wrong Number Waste Disposal

Book:The Year of Secret Assignments

Source: The Year of Secret Assignments

“If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.”

Ifs Numbers Boring Statistics Analytics Wrong Number

Author:Edward Tufte

“Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.”

Persons Able School Used Numbers Office Humorous Phones Used To Be Telephones Elevators Answering Machines Wrong Number

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.”

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Author:Bruce Jenner