Oldfangled numbers you remember from childhood

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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.

koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link

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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.


69!

https://i.imgur.com/OznRsG6.jpg

Alba, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link

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

ciderpress, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link

21645000060159

ciderpress, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link

Jenny: 867-5309

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link

> 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)

koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link

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

Alba, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link

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!

koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link

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.

Alba, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link

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

koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link

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

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link

poke 35136, 0 - manic miner inifinite lives

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

koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link

that was better than downloading malware packed game trainers

calzino, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link

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

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link

5318008

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link

my bicycle lock combination: 3265

Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link

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 a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link

(i'm 37)

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link

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

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link

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)

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link

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

adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 08:02 (two years ago) link


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