I hate that it works

2 days ago by gigaqps to c/microblogmemes

LodeMike 82 points 2 days ago

What

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blartcap_ 72 points 2 days ago

Those digits said out loud, and with the right phrasing, loosely sounds like the lyrics from the Dawson's Creek theme.

"I don't want to wait for our lives to be over"

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PlaidBaron 60 points 2 days ago

It...it does?

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Wizard_Pope 56 points 2 days ago

Like 15% there if you squint your ears really hard

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loweffortname 26 points 2 days ago

"Nine Oh One Oh Eight" works when I say it...

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whosepoopisonmybuttocks 17 points a day ago

Yes. I think it sounds very close. Here's an attempt:

1  &   2  &  3   & 4 &
I don wan a wait

1&2&3&4&
90108

1    & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1  & 2 & 3 & 4 &
For our  Liiiiives to be  oh  verr

1&2&3&4&1&2&3&4&
40-9----23-0-4--
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BradleyUffner 16 points a day ago

You put a lot of work in to that, but it's not helping me hear it. Thank you anyway; I appreciate your effort!

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captain_aggravated 8 points 2 days ago

The song in question isn't annunciated clearly. It sounds like "annawannaoway! fo'ow lieeeee tobe ova"

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monketman82 6 points 2 days ago

No, it definitely does not.

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jaaake 4 points 2 days ago

I wonder what accent you have...

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Serinus 4 points 2 days ago

90108 does. The other part doesn't fit as well. "Oh four" works as "over" and that's about it.

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ColeSloth 3 points a day ago

Yes. It does.

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blartcap_ 2 points 2 days ago

Very loosely. It's more like it rhymes with the actual lyrics than represents them. Or maybe you'd think someone is singing the song if you heard it through a wall.

Dunno how else "three" would become "be".

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LodeMike 6 points 2 days ago

Ok? What's up with Beverly hills? Are the numbers significant or is this whole thing just "haha human mouth make finite syllables"

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captain_aggravated 12 points a day ago

Come with me on a journey though old TV shows, communist and/or child.

For almost the entire 90's there was a teen drama series on FOX called Beverly Hills 90210. It follows a group of teens as they come of age, among the alleged glitz and glamor of the affluent town of Beverly Hills, California, effectively a suburb of Los Angeles, not far from Hollywood. 90210, pronounced "nine-oh-two-one-oh", is one of several ZIP codes of the town.

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan, it's the post code scheme implemented in the mid-20th century by the United States Post Office, appended to a street address. ZIP codes really refer to the structure of the post office itself and indicate what exact region down to the individaul post office a piece of mail must be routed to, but the general public (incorrectly) treats them as geographic regions, in larger cities down to the neighborhood level. Because of the TV show, 90210 is the best-known ZIP code worldwide.

That is all of the relevance of Beverly Hills, the fact the TV show had a ZIP code in its title.

There was another teen drama TV show that ran from the late 90s to the early 2000s called Dawson's Creek, set in a fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. This show used Paula Cole's "I Don't Want To Wait" as a theme tune over the opening credits.

The phrase "I Don't Want To Wait", as sung by Paula Cole in an indistinct slightly slurred manner, sounds similar to how an American would pronounce the ZIP code 90108. "Nine Oh One Oh Eight". The next line of the song is "For our lives to be over" again not pronounced very distinctly, similarly sounds like '4092304" "Four oh nine two three oh four". Look up the song on Youtube read the numbers as you listen, you'll hear it.

90108 IS a real ZIP code, one of many belonging to Los Angeles, apparently for PO Boxes used by the military, per my googling.

Further nerd snipe bullshit, 409-2304 is a valid (partial) US telephone number. In fact it's several hundred of them; there could be :one of those per area code. Assuming that Capeside is near Cape Cod, the likely area code for that region would have been 508, though around that time the 744 overlay area code was being introduced.

So (508) 409-2304 might have been a valid phone number for a house/character on Dawson's Creek. It's also very likely someone's real phone number in Attleboro, MA. Please don't bother them.

If I were to assign the fictional town of Capeside a ZIP code, there are a few to choose from given there are unused gaps in the ZIP codes assigned to MA. I might go for 02605.

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200ok 2 points a day ago

Superb write-up. Even though I got the joke, I still learned something 🍿

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LodeMike -1 points a day ago

Ok so it is just "word sound like number"

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dohpaz42 8 points 2 days ago path: 0 26268703 26269006 26269408 26269908, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0
webghost0101 50 points 2 days ago

90108 4092304

Nine-O-One-O-Eigt

I O Wan O (w)Eigt

Four-O-Nine-two-Three-O-Four

For O Live to be O for.

Its quite a strech but yeah its kinda there if you squint your ears.

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FrowingFostek 24 points 2 days ago

Im stealing "squint your ears" Thank you.

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RichardNixos 5 points a day ago path: 0 26269342 26269962 26273444, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
NotSteve_ 8 points 2 days ago

I don't know any of these numbers what

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Soggy 9 points a day ago

US postal (ZIP) code. "Beverly Hills, 90210" was a TV series in the 90s so it's one that a lot of people are generally aware of. "Dawson's Creek" is another 90's TV show that used Paula Cole's I Don't Want to Wait for the theme song. 90108 is not a real ZIP code but "nine oh one oh eight" sounds like the song lyrics. We frequently say "oh" for zero in phone numbers and ZIP codes and that sort of thing. "Four oh niiine two three oh four" is the rest of the line of the song.

The whole thing is squarely aimed at US Millenials/Gen X.

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agamemnonymous 8 points a day ago

4052304 works better

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usualsuspect191 6 points 2 days ago

But Dawson Creek has postal codes

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Schmoo 4 points a day ago

This is a cognitohazard for schizophrenics. If they find this post the numbers will be speaking to them within the hour.

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1hitsong 3 points 2 days ago

Stick Stickly taught me that the zip code for New York, New York is 10108.

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mycodesucks 1 point a day ago

PO Box 963

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HonoraryMancunian 3 points 2 days ago

I don't know why everyone's bitching about this

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Soggy 0 points a day ago

Americans aren't allowed to enjoy anything.

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SCmSTR 1 point 15 hours ago

Some people need hearing tests

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Bubs12 1 point 2 days ago

This is nothing

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ThatGuyNamedZeus 1 point 2 days ago

Nine zero one zero eight! Four zero nine two three zero four!

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captain_aggravated 2 points 2 days ago

Found the communist.

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ThatGuyNamedZeus 1 point 13 hours ago

Sing the words like that, it still kind of works

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