name game

You need a phone number, pronto.

You dial 411.

“Hi, I’m Xena. What city please?”

Xena? As in Lucy Lawless, the whip-snapping, crime-fighting dark-haired vixen?

Well, of course it’s not that warrior princess. It’s the Pacific Bell phone princess--or one of her fantasizing battalion of headset-coiffed colleagues.

We too have been amused by the monikers of some smooth operators. According to spokesman Marc Bien, operators can create aliases. (Wouldn’t you if you had to answer the phone 1,200 times a day?) In alphabetical order, here’s the 411.

1. Chanel

2. Coco

3. Conan

4. Geronimo

5. Hansel

6. Holland

7. Mahogany

8. Sterling

9. Vlad

10. Xena