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Ever woken up one morning with a raging hangover that was promptly worsened by
the memory of the drunken cell phone call to the ex at 3 a.m.?

A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group
and Optus, found 95 percent made drunken phone calls. Of those calls, 30
percent were to ex-partners, 19 percent to current partners, and 36 percent to
other people, including their bosses.

The company said that, beginning Wednesday, Virgin Mobile customers could dial
333 plus a phone number they don't want to call when drunk. Virgin Mobile
would--for a 25-cent fee--stop all calls to that number by blacklisting it
until 6 a.m. the following day.