Anyone remember dialing "popcorn" for the time? 90s faggots wont understand.
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WHEN I WAS 13/14 I MET A GANG OF BITCHES ON THE PARTY LINE...LOOSE LIL HOES PULLING G RIDES OR MOBBING THEIR PARENTS CARS FROM LIKE SD,IE,LA...JUST TO GET TOSSED UP BY ALL THE HOMIES...THEY'D BOUNCE FROM ONE PAD TO ANOTHER...IN THE SAME CLOTHES FOR LIKE A WEEK.
TIL SOMEBODY TOLD THEM TO KICK ROCKS OR HAD ONE OF THE HOMEGIRLS BEAT THEM UP.
THEN THE NEXT WEEK SOME NEW BITCHES WAS REPEATING THE SAME CYCLE.
TIL SOMEBODY TOLD THEM TO KICK ROCKS OR HAD ONE OF THE HOMEGIRLS BEAT THEM UP.
THEN THE NEXT WEEK SOME NEW BITCHES WAS REPEATING THE SAME CYCLE.
naah, that shit was free...i think ur old man just wanted a reason 2 beat the shit outta yall
for the time, i'd call 853+any 4 numbers.....that shit went extinct around '09.
really, tho, do 90s babies even know what 411 is? in a few years, mufuckaz wont even know the expression "whats the 411?"...shits gunna turn into "whats the google?" or some shit.
oh yeah, Popcorn, Dial down the center....Anyone remember being able to hit the pay phone, dial a a certain 3 digit number (cant remember what it was) then the last 4 digits of the phone you were on. Spit on the earphone, hang up walk away and the shit would start ringing till some sucka walked by and picked it up? Very entertaining at the mall...
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FUCK ALL YA'LL
976-****
YOU AINT O.G. UNTIL YOU DONE CALLED THESE AND GOTTEN IN TROUBLE AS A KID
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976-****
YOU AINT O.G. UNTIL YOU DONE CALLED THESE AND GOTTEN IN TROUBLE AS A KID
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http://phonephun.us/archives/att-says-no-more-dialing-for-time/
AT&T has announced that the phone numbers that tell the time will be discontinued later this month. The "Time of Day information service" has been in available in Nevada and California since the 1920s. AT&T says the 1960s equipment used is failing, and no replacement parts are available. (I guess it's beyond their tech savvy to hook up something new with a $199 PC.)
In some areas, the phone number for time is POPCORN; in the LA area it is 853-1212. Because the entire 767 and 853 exchanges are devoted to the time service taking the service down will free up some 300,000 phone numbers.
A funny quote from an LA Times article on the subject: "In the 1950s, a woman named Mary Moore emerged as the nation's leading time-teller. Her reading of hours, minutes and seconds was delivered in a distinctive if somewhat prissy tone. Moore's odd pronunciation of the numbers 5 ("fiyev") and 9 ("niyun") influenced a generation of operators, much as flying ace Chuck Yeager's West Virginia drawl is said to have been adopted by innumerable airline pilots."
Sure, there are a bazillion other ways to find out the time now, but dialing for the time is a, uh, time-honored tradition.
You can still call (303) 499-7111 to get the time from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's atomic clock.
AT&T has announced that the phone numbers that tell the time will be discontinued later this month. The "Time of Day information service" has been in available in Nevada and California since the 1920s. AT&T says the 1960s equipment used is failing, and no replacement parts are available. (I guess it's beyond their tech savvy to hook up something new with a $199 PC.)
In some areas, the phone number for time is POPCORN; in the LA area it is 853-1212. Because the entire 767 and 853 exchanges are devoted to the time service taking the service down will free up some 300,000 phone numbers.
A funny quote from an LA Times article on the subject: "In the 1950s, a woman named Mary Moore emerged as the nation's leading time-teller. Her reading of hours, minutes and seconds was delivered in a distinctive if somewhat prissy tone. Moore's odd pronunciation of the numbers 5 ("fiyev") and 9 ("niyun") influenced a generation of operators, much as flying ace Chuck Yeager's West Virginia drawl is said to have been adopted by innumerable airline pilots."
Sure, there are a bazillion other ways to find out the time now, but dialing for the time is a, uh, time-honored tradition.
You can still call (303) 499-7111 to get the time from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's atomic clock.
