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This reads like my life...
Renegade:
One thing I loved doing when I was a kid -- I think like 9 or 10 -- was doing the ring-back on the phone. You dialed a variation on your telephone number, waited a moment, hung up, then your phone rang. I think my mom hated that. :P
40hz:
To do a paraphrased mashup from a famous novel:
"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. So...The first rule of Hack Club is: You do not talk about Hack Club. The second rule of Hack Club is: You do not talk about Hack Club."
Even after many many years. ;)
Stoic Joker:
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.-40hz (August 24, 2012, 06:14 AM)
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I like that.
40hz:
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.-40hz (August 24, 2012, 06:14 AM)
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I like that.
-Stoic Joker (August 24, 2012, 07:13 AM)
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Me too. Chuck Palahniuk is great for coming up with memorable lines. :Thmbsup:
Edvard:
Closest I ever got (vague 50th place) was one of the phone company test codes (now long forgotten) that when you dialed it, caused a phone-company dial-back like testing a line.
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IIRC, it was 555-1212 (there were other uses for that line that I forget, and not just as a 'throwaway' number), wait for the click, and hang up.
Though I may be wrong as that was long, long ago in a place far, far away. Ah, for a table phone and a pair of alligator clips...
-Edvard (August 23, 2012, 10:16 PM)
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No, from what feeble amount I remember, 555-XXXX is the famous movie code for phone numbers that do not exist. This was something like 98X-YYYY (last four of your own phone number.)
-TaoPhoenix (August 24, 2012, 01:18 AM)
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Obviously, I did not recall correctly... ;)
I knew that about 555 designating a fake number, but I'm pretty sure me and my first hacker friend found other uses for it.
Like I said, IIRC, which is prolly NOT the case 95% of the time ;D
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