NORAD's Santa Tracker Began With A Typo And A Good Sport

[dawp]

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport

all because of a typo.

 

[Homerboy]

Incredible.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[olds]

tl;dr

 

[bbhaag]

tl;dr

The Santa Tracker tradition started with a Sears ad, which instructed children to call Santa on what turned out to be a secret military hotline.

Summed up in one sentence. Even the seasoned ATOTer can stomach that.....maybe.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's pretty awesome.

I work for the phone company, we have test phones at our desk which we sometimes use to test DMS programming features and what not, they're just straight land lines connected to the DMS. Not listed anywhere. Every now and then one of them starts to ring out of nowhere because someone fat fingered a phone number. Always funny.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The Santa Tracker tradition started with a Sears ad, which instructed children to call Santa on what turned out to be a secret military hotline.

Summed up in one sentence. Even the seasoned ATOTer can stomach that.....maybe.

Imagined if that happened today. All air traffic would immediately be grounded and it would would turn into some huge anti terrorism investigation involving the FBI, CIA, DOD and other alphabet agencies. Once the source of the number is found, the printing press equipment along with every copy of the paper found via house raids would be confiscated and whoever made the mistake would eventually be picked up by the government and never heard of again.

 

[Markbnj]

Never knew that story. Thanks for posting!

 

[Ichinisan]

Imagined if that happened today. All air traffic would immediately be grounded and it would would turn into some huge anti terrorism investigation involving the FBI, CIA, DOD and other alphabet agencies. Once the source of the number is found, the printing press equipment along with every copy of the paper found via house raids would be confiscated and whoever made the mistake would eventually be picked up by the government and never heard of again.

I'm starting to think you're not joking and you actually do believe the stuff you post like this.

 

[T9D]

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[Ichinisan]

He's probably way more correct than not. That's the sad thing.

Wrong number dialing and typos are less common / expected today? I don't think so.

 

[DaTT]

tl;dr

There is a "Listen to the story" button for those who don't want to read it. 3 minutes.

 

[waffleironhead]

tl;dr

Lemme break it down for you.

Sears to add printer: sup bitch, misprint?
Kids to NORAD : sup bitch, Santa?
NORAD to kids: sup bitch, yep.
NORAD to world: sup bitches, Santa tracker.

 

[Jodell88]

Lemme break it down for you.

Sears to add printer: sup bitch, misprint?
Kids to NORAD : sup bitch, Santa?
NORAD to kids: sup bitch, yep.
NORAD to world: sup bitches, Santa tracker.

:awe:

 

[manimal]

would be a good Clooney movie

 

[stlc8tr]

Wrong number dialing and typos are less common / expected today? I don't think so.

Who actually dials phones anymore? It's either in my contacts or you dial from a search.

 

[Markbnj]

Wrong number dialing and typos are less common / expected today? I don't think so.

I suspect so. Far fewer calls are made by physically dialing the numbers, I'd think.

 

[midwestfisherman]

That's cool.

 

[feralkid]

Who actually dials phones anymore? It's either in my contacts or you dial from a search.

People who aren't you.

Doesn't that just totally piss you off?

LITERALLY, IT'S SO IRONIC!

 

[aloser]

I suspect so. Far fewer calls are made by physically dialing the numbers, I'd think.

Still wouldn't matter; the point is that it has to be entered correctly somewhere along the line. Heck, there's a website that has my home phone number listed as a contact number for a local bank...

 

[lupi]

saw it linked on yahoo earlier, pretty cool.

 

[Ichinisan]

I suspect so. Far fewer calls are made by physically dialing the numbers, I'd think.

That wasn't a dialing error. It was an error in a printed ad. Just as likely to happen today.

 

[stlc8tr]

People who aren't you.

Doesn't that just totally piss you off?

LITERALLY, IT'S SO IRONIC!

 

[AudiophileGeek]

thanks for sharing!

 

[Captante]

Even the seasoned ATOTer can stomach that.

And maybe not!