0118 999 881 999 119 725 … 3
Well that’s easy to remember !
What’s so difficult about remembering 911?
The phone number at my home growing up as a child. The building is gone, the phone is gone. The number remains.
I was talking with my wife about that a couple weeks ago, how I can remember my childhood home phone number, but don’t even know my own actual phone number.
Same here. Also my grandparents and a few others. Ironically I can’t recall any numbers besides my own these days
This is useful for passwords though a 11 pretty random string of numbers to add to the end of a passphrase
a.k.a. salting
Me too. Back then you had to know your numbers by heart and thats the only one I still know.
It did help that it was only 4 digits after the area code
Your city only has 4 digit phone numbers??? Where do live??? The place phones were invented???
(That joke would play better if everyone knew where phone numbers were first installed, and I could just say the city name…ok, let me try something else)
Where do you live??? In Alexander Gram Bell’s living room???
Meh.
Germany in the 1980’s. In the first few years we even had to share the line with our upstairs neighbours, their number was one removed from ours.
But four digit numbers were pretty common back then.
Ah yes, good ol phone number of 1
ETA: Why’d you downvote me? Did I accidentally dox you?? Fine, we’ll pretend like your phone number is 2
"Why, Mr. Anderson, why?
Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting?
Do you believe you’re fighting for something, for more than your survival? Could you tell me what it is, do you even know? Is it freedom or truth? Perhaps peace. Could it be for love?
Illusions Mr. Anderson, vagueries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose.
And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love…
You must be able to see it Mr. Anderson, you must know it by now. You can’t win, it’s pointless to keep fighting!
Why Mr. Anderson, why?! Why do you persist?!"
Typed from memory.
That was a fun read
c/CommentsYouCanHear
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
I pledge allegiance, to the flag…
Of the United States of America…
And to the Republic, for which it stands…
X equals negative B
Plus or minus the square root
Of B squared minus 4AC
All over 2A
Sang to the tune of pop goes the weasel.
I haven’t done pre-calc in like 10 years, but this song still lives rent free in my head.
I learned similarly but to the tune of the Flintstones theme.
“Neg B / Plus or minus / Square root of b squared minus 4AC / It’s all / Over 2A / That’s the quadratic formul-ee” (to rhyme with 4AC).
You can also do it to the chorus of Rollin’ in the Deep. I teach both to my Algebra students.
- Johann Gambolputty’s full name.
- Konami Code.
- How to read UPC, EAN, and ISBN bar codes.
- Why Will Hunting shouldn’t join the NSA.
- The Doomsday Method for determining the day of the week given any date after the Gregorian Calendar went into effect.
- Pi to 260 decimal places
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the Retro-Encabulator.
I was going to say Pi to 124 decimal places from Pi day at school.
I also have “Ickle me, Pickle me, Tickle me too” by shel Silverstein memorized. Same with “These woods” by Robert Frost.
I have lots of random facts that I usually only remember when the topic comes up, but all are equally useless
I need a new prefamulated amulite baseplate. Do you know where I could find one?
One surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing? I hear Rockwell sells them.
My ICQ number
Uh-oh
Your what?
ICQ, one of the first messengers. Every user had a unique number, like phone numbers today.
The produce codes for bananas, green grapes, red grapes, and cucumbers, from my first job 28 years ago.
I still remember the codes for the two different chicken patties McDonald’s had while transitioning from one to the other. We were desperate to get the old one out of the system but you could only do so after it was unused for 90 days. I went as far as renaming it so that it would be obvious for order takers not to use it.
8-6-7-5-3-0-9
Jenny, I’ve got your number.
My wife gets an honorable mention for being able to recite the “what did you say to me you little bitch” copypasta in its entirety on a dime and as fast as she can say it
icq number
A static shock is 4116° for such a short fraction of time that it doesn’t burn you
The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn’t…
I had a lab TA in college who made it a point to teach everyone how to pronounce his name. But that’s about it. He wouldn’t help you unless you an attractive blonde woman.
So fuck you, Ashitosh.
