quicko: double double

Toil and tr--, oops, wrong blog! What I meant here was simply that, when giving phone numbers here, people don't say "nine - one - one," but instead "nine - double one." You're supposed to realize this means 911. (This also sheds massive light on the whole "double oh - seven" thing. I naively assumed it was suave lingo specially made for a fictional character, having no idea that it was simply very ordinary British/Australian English.) Similarly, they can also use "triple" if a digit appears three consecutive times, a feat Australian phone numbers manage disarmingly more often than American ones.

Oh, and 911 is not 911. It's 000. (Which is, of course, "triple oh." Seriously.)