Oldfangled numbers you remember from childhood

722027 was the name and phone no. of a lighting and sound equipment shop in oxford, not that i ever had any cause to visit or ring but it was painted large on their shop front. Still in business, but with a different phone number.

oh nine oh double one ten fifty ... ten

Garfield 1-2323

I can also remember many of the home phone numbers I regularly dialled when I was 11, but not my wife's current mobile number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qn78WGn4A

(I know this has become meme-ified in subsequent years but I actually saw and recorded this when I was a kid and used to watch it endlessly because it always cracked me up.)

buddy from dick van dyke show declared 42 to be the funniest number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWlm03aJW7Y

home phone number, 7-12 yo: 7851540

I remember reading somewhere as a kid that 27% of the population wets their toothbrush before and after putting on the toothpaste

(I include myself among this cohort)

Jimmy McGrory, 408 league goals in 408 games.

007-373-5963
Code to skip to Mike Tyson

i still remember my middle school crush's phone number

some friends of mine (twin brothers) phone number ended in 6699 and I've always thought that should have gotten more lolz than it did when we were 12 years old

I can remember my home phone number and the reg of the family car from the early 80s but I'm not posting them as that makes them good potential secret question answers.

0898 60 60 60

YDD 44 - grey morris minor. i seem to remember we once parked in a huge car park next to an almost identical car that was one digit different

SAD 180G - hillman minx? is that even a thing? yes. image search turns up all sorts, but this would've been a '67 or '68 which are the boxiest, least-Noddy of them all.

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SAD 180G - hillman minx? is that even a thing? yes. image search turns up all sorts, but this would've been a '67 or '68 which are the boxiest, least-Noddy of them all.

i remember my 14 digit library card number from my hometown, last time i used it was probably in 8th grade

21645000060159

Jenny: 867-5309

> 69!

does that MOT record mean it's still on the road? it was grey, but not sure if it was dark or light (the moggy was light grey)

No, it’s not still on the road. Separate gov.uk tool shows its tax ran out in 1985.

don't heritage cars not need tax?

> Vehicles exempt from vehicle tax
> If your vehicle was built before 1 January 1981, you can stop paying vehicle tax from 1 April 2021.

anything over 40 years doesn't need taxing. or rather it does need taxing but you don't need to pay for it. so that's not the case here (and wouldn't've been for a 68 car in 85) so it's dead. and died so young!

I looked up the only family car whose plate I could remember, an Escort registered in 1977, and it shows as untaxed from even earlier in ‘85, so your Minx didn’t do too badly. Thinking about it, ours was nicked so I guess that’s where it met its end.

there must been other cars, but i can only remember a white mini cooper other than those, and that was years ago. my brother would get pulled over by the police on a weekly basis driving that - it made him look underage

cost of longsword in final fantasy legend for game boy: 132GP

poke 35136, 0 - manic miner inifinite lives

6031769 - manic miner level skip (and matthew smith's phone number)

that was better than downloading malware packed game trainers

I remember the IP address of a counterstrike server I used in the late 90s. I have used it as a password a number of times.

remember my uk national insurance number, though I have had no reason to use it in over a decade. don't remember my Canadian social insurance number even though I have to regularly fill it out places

5318008

my bicycle lock combination: 3265

PO Box 474
OCMR Box 404

I also remember the number of every address I've lived at since college, I'm pretty sure, so that's about fourteen different numbers.

(i'm 37)

Childhood phone number: 852-8026
Teenage phone number: 464-9004
First license plate: 41CMG23

Childhood phone number: BE6-2907 (The BE was derived from our house being located in the Belmont St. exchange. It was dialed as 236-2907)

my university student number which i'm not printing in case it's still being tracked

747, the startropics password
69,105, the number of leaves in zork