Harvard sentences!
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Pardon the unicode:

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 ├───────────────┤ One day when playing with
 │╭─────────────╮│ Iridium, I overheard the 
 ││   Iridium   ││ most peculiar message:
 ││             ││
 │╰─────────────╯│   " The hog crawled under
 │═══════════════│ the high fence. Move the
 ├───────────────┤ var over the hot fire "
 │[   ][   ][   ]│
 │ ___  ___  ___ │ It sounded like something
 │[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]│ straight out of a bond movie!
 │ ___  ___  ___ │
 │[ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ]│
 │ ___  ___  ___ │
 │[ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ]│
 │ ___  ___  ___ │
 │[ # ][ 0 ][ * ]│
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Here is the audio sample:

 harvard_stencences.mp3

After some investigation, it turns out these are called
'harvard sentences' and are designed to be phonetically
balanced and used in testing of telcom systems.
Ah that makes complete sense now. - Alas, not 007.

When talking about this on sdf's #gopher channel, 

 cat from baud.baby

shared a phone number that gives an endless stream
of these: (858) 651-5050

Next time you find yourself in need for some 
phonetically balanced goodness, you can give that one
a ring!

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