Name: Can you guess the mascot?
Uploaded: 2026-01-08T16:56:46.000Z
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Eighties, the UK insurance company Guardian Direct advertised their phone number 080028, 2820.

In the 1980s, the UK insurance company Guardian Direct advertised their telephone number 0800-28-2820.

And no, this is not a sponsored question.

And to the best of my knowledge, that number no longer works.

I'm guessing it has to do with, like, you know how like a is like, you know how like on the old cell phones, you.

They used to be like, call 1-800-I LOVE PIZZA and you'd like, type out, like the numbers to the letters.

I wonder if it's something to do with that.

Either that those numbers spell something that could be the mascot or even, like, could those numbers be in the shape of something that's the mascot?

I was gonna tap out because I thought that, like, I might.

But then I think that you just had, like, a very similar thought to me, Caitlyn.

I don't know the answer, but I thought you should stay in.

I thought that 2828 maybe looks like a swan or like a peacock or something like that because it's got like the little thing and then the tail like that.

So they advertise the number, not 2800 items.

That's a reference I haven't heard in a few years.

For the younger folks in the audience, do you want to explain what that is?

That's writing things using numbers and symbols instead of letters.

In this case, 2 would be a Z, 8 would be a B.

So it's not like they look like anything because that was gonna be my initial thoughts because the 2828 maybe looked a bit bird like.

And unfortunately, you can rule out the T9 texting thing as well because there's a zero in there and that is a space.

Okay, so it's 2828-282008-00282-820, 2828 20, which.

If you're writing it out like a normal number, it would be 0-800-28282.

Yeah, we had shorter phone numbers back then.

Yeah, an 0800 for the Americans is just the.

Caitlin, I think you were starting to be on the right lines there just now going like this with my finger.

Well, I have been a bit sneaky in how I phrased this.

Well, Caitlyn was doing quite a good job of phrasing it there.

Because you're kind of like going up and down and up and down.

Because I'm just thinking like the 2 would be at the top, the 8 would be towards the bottom and the 0 is even further down.

So it is kind of bouncing from top to bottom.

And I love that you've also so far named the swan, the peacock and the kangaroo.

No, Caitlin, you kind of said the number in a different way earlier.

So when I was reframing it now, I was reframing it to be like a seven digit number.

So I was thinking 2, 8, 2 and then 820-282-820.

You see, we wouldn't use zero for, for there.

Oh, we'd say, oh, so is it too wit tuwhit tuwoo like an owl?

This was phrased as 0800-282-820, which sounds like how we would describe the sound of an owl.

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