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[Cabal]

I'm beginning to be a little cautious as of late whenever a girl gives me her phone number at the dance club and is all like, "Okay. My number is 555-,umm, 5555. Yeah. Call me."

Man, the Rejection Hotline's number is much less subtle across the pond.

 

[Steffenfield]

What I really am beginning to hate is when you give a babe your phone number and she writes it on the bottom of her shoe with some chalk.

It's like, okay, so are you and me dating?

 

[AV1611VET]

No, "411" is not synonymous with "information".

From Answers.com:

n.

Slang
Information or knowledge, especially when acquired by word of mouth.

[From 411, a telephone number for telephone directory information.]

 

[Rilke's Granddaughter]

From Answers.com:

Well I'll be dashed. The things that people say these days! Thanks.

 

[AV1611VET]

Well I'll be dashed. The things that people say these days! Thanks.

My pleasure!

 

[Delphiki]

Well I'll be dashed. The things that people say these days! Thanks.

It's primarily America slang. Kind of like how Brits might call £1 "1 quid".

 

[Nabobalis]

It's primarily America slang. Kind of like how Brits might call £1 "1 quid".

Ahem, it is not slang. If you say it once more I might have to take the colony back

 

[Delphiki]

Ahem, it is not slang. If you say it once more I might have to take the colony back

Well, I don't know any cockney.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I'm beginning to be a little cautious as of late whenever a girl gives me her phone number at the dance club and is all like, "Okay. My number is 555-,umm, 5555. Yeah. Call me."

Imagine the poor lass who's number really is 555-5555! She must never get to, erm, lead the cow to pasture.

What I really am beginning to hate is when you give a babe your phone number and she writes it on the bottom of her shoe with some chalk.

It's like, okay, so are you and me dating?

Yes.

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

"555" does not exist as a city code for anywhere in the world.

 

[Gracchus]

"555" does not exist as a city code for anywhere in the world.

So, she must be an angel.

 

[Steffenfield]

Is it possible to do a MacGyver and make a bomb to blow up a simple door lock out of a box of Kleenex, a bottle of douche, flint, lemon juice, car battery acid, tin foil, two dixie cups, your shoe strings, a potato, my underwear, a pack of red playing cards, um, a rock, a live active wire from an overhead lamp, and some toothpicks?

I could use some real life help on this.

 

[Son of the King]

Is it possible to do a MacGyver and make a bomb to blow up a simple door lock out of a box of Kleenex, a bottle of douche, flint, lemon juice, car battery acid, tin foil, two dixie cups, your shoe strings, a potato, my underwear, a pack of red playing cards, um, a rock, a live active wire from an overhead lamp, and some toothpicks?

I could use some real life help on this.

Sounds like it would be easier to find a hammer.

 

[KIYX]

Telephone numbers with the prefix 555 are widely used for fictitious telephone numbers in North American television shows, films, computer games, and other media.
Not all numbers that begin with 555 are fictional—for example, 555-1212 is one of the standard numbers for directory assistance throughout the United States and Canada. In fact, only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are now specifically reserved for fictional use, with the other numbers having been released for actual assignment. How exactly this will intersect with the many uses of 555-2368 (one of the more commonly used fake numbers)[1] by AT&T and other telephone companies, remains unknown.



Oh wiki so full of useless info.

 

[Cabal]

Is it possible to do a MacGyver and make a bomb to blow up a simple door lock out of a box of Kleenex, a bottle of douche, flint, lemon juice, car battery acid, tin foil, two dixie cups, your shoe strings, a potato, my underwear, a pack of red playing cards, um, a rock, a live active wire from an overhead lamp, and some toothpicks?

I could use some real life help on this.

Lock yourself out of the house again?

 

[Chesterton]

Telephone numbers with the prefix 555 are widely used for fictitious telephone numbers in North American television shows, films, computer games, and other media.

I recall hearing that the FCC sent memos out encouraging the entertainment industry to use 555 for fictitious numbers after the popular song "867-5309/Jenny" caused people with that number to get lots of prank calls.

 

[Steffenfield]

Okay, so a friend gave me this picture.

Don't bother trying to Google it because you won't find this image anywhere.

Okay, first off, it was taken in Grand Haven, Michigan.

She completely insists that this is a water wave that suddenly froze.

Honestly?

I mean, like is that even possible? It seems so very unlikely to me.

But yeah, I still can't explain this picture to her.

Anyway, that pic was taken on a lake so there's nothing but surrounding ice water everywhere in what you're seeing on this.

 

[Gracchus]

It doesn't look like a frozen wave of water to me. That seems unlikely, because if it were cold enough to freeze that quickly it would be to cold for liquid water.

My first impression was an iced over airplane, but I can't really tell from the one picture.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I agree with Gracchus, it doesn't look like a liquid wave that suddenly froze, even if supercooling could work.

Did she say that she actually physically saw the liquid wave become solid? Or that that was just her hypothesis? Because I'm sceptical as to the former...

It looks like an ice floe, or something the wind's gradually built up.

 

[Steffenfield]

Nope. She didn't see it when it happened but absolutely insists that it's a frozen wave of water.

Next time I see her though, I'mma saying "ice floe". *BOOM*

*lol*

Thanks guys!