011 8 999 881 99 9 11 9 725 ... 3

Also known as the best 911/999 replacement ever

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So Jenny is off-limits?

Jenny don't change your number 8675309

You're not my real dad, Edgar

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4729r7e9r7e937r7e8ehdnebrhdis

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What if it's way too long to be an actual phone number? Like, say, 20 digits instead of 10.

1-1-2

867-5309.

So, Tommy Tutone is banned from Reddit?

In the US at least, literally any string of numbers that is 10 digits long is highly likely to be someone's phone number.

Yeah, guys. Jenny is gonna be fucking pissed. Good thing the fun police are here to save her.

555-6193

Whoa how long have you been a mod?

9481 double 1 double 1

If it's a buisness one (One three double o six triple five, oh six (call the Reading and Writing hotline) it isn't personal and isn't a violation.

STOP!!STOP!THISISNOTADVD!

Free Edgar 2013

That rule is for posts. Not comments. Try again.

I'm just sort of curious, why is a fake one bad too?

3.14159!

Since when have you been a moderator? o_O

phone number for the national autism association: 877.622.2884

1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8

Firing order of a ford 302 that I spent many months assembling. That was 26 years ago, and I've never built or worked on one since.

4815162342

Hope I didn't break it... It's a story about a phone number and an address... But no phone numbers or addresses fake or real were given...

Why do the mods hate Mike Jones?

A phone number alone is not identifying information.

Names are always posted here though.

Wellllllll look who's a mod now.

(555)555-5555

Why is it illegal to post your own personal information? Obviously you're okay with having it out there if you're the one posting it. Unless it's by accident, but then that's not a rule-breaking issue.

Did you ban those that violated this rule?

666

9/11

Even Jenny?

555-0129

Hoooomoooo.

Wait, you're a mod now? When did this happen?

911

Were people posting the number from that Jane song?

Does 867-5309 count, as it's a part of a song?

This is my favourite sticky so far.

50201600 is the barcode* for individual Cadbury's Creme Eggs. They never scanned.

sobs

THEY NEVER SCANNED!

I worked at trader joes for 13 months and within the first month had the entire produce section memorized. It was awful.

Put a 9 in front if it's organic.

Former grocery store employees, unite!

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and the PLU for watermelon is 4032

Asparagus is 4080. I've never worked at a grocery store, but Wegmans has those scale things that you put in the PLU and it gives you the sticker to put on so they just scan at the register instead of them weighing and typing there and I buy asparagus every week. Also zucchini is 4067.

Cucumbers 9681

Watermelon 3421

Cantaloupe 4050

Beefsteak tomatoes 4798

I could go on...Cashier

Self checkout? Everything is banana's

The PLU for the apples I like to buy is 4174.

4044 for peaches

You rang?

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ARE THOSE THE SAME FOR EVERY STORE?!

Lets see:

Roma Tomatoes: 4087

Vine-ripe tomatoes(or hot house?): 4166

Green onions: 4068

Cantaloupe: 4050

green bell pepper: 4065

Red bell pepper: 4088

green apples: 4017

Jalepenos: 4693

Russet potatoes: 4072

Cucumber: 4062

Zuchini squash: 4067

Iceberg lettuce: 4061

Cabbage: 4069

Navel orange: 4012

White Peach: 3287

Mini-Watermelon: 3421

Crystal geyser 32 pck: 0827473413

Refreshe 24 pk: 2113024032

Refreshe 32 pk: 2113024082

9lb ice: 20501

20lb ice: 20503

stamps: 22009

All I can think of. I just quit no need for me to remember these anymore. Also fun fact, I could NEVER remember the code for romaine lettuce, even though I rung up like a HUNDRED a day.

9771470296002 - the old barcode of the local rag when I worked in a supermarket. (The end changed to 015 when the price went up from 50p to 55p about a month before I stopped working there.)

(There was one week when a printing error meant that the barcode would just not scan, so the number of times I typed that number in during that one week made it implanted on my brain. I left the supermarket about 12 years ago now, still remember the number...)

You said this and I thought cabbage. 4069

17008869 for top soil - worked two years in a hardware store and it still sticks with me.

I've seen this twice in this thread. Is this an industry standard? I always assumed it was grocery store specific.

I still remember all PLUs from produce and haven't worked at a grocery store in over ten years

Probably the only PLU I remember from my cashier days

1111049213 Kroger 24 pack of water

THIS. I have this permanently memorized from my job now.

You'd think after 3 years of working cashier/produce with one of those years being a produce department manager, that I'd have more codes memorized. Nope, all I can remember is Bananas.

Cool thing about produce codes, they're pretty much the same everywhere.

4664 for vine ripe tomatoes.

I try to impress people by saying this every chance that I get.

4086 green onions 4046 hass avocados 4770 large avocados 4770 spaghetti squash 4032 watermelon 4016 red delicious 4017 Granny Smith

I could go on.. Currently brainwashed by a grocery store

Peanuts. With salt, roasted and blanched is 100.

The cardboard eh cartoons never scanned, either. 3680098430 for the large size. I have all of the other sizes memorized, too. I haven't work at a grocery store in 17 years.

That is the only one I remember from being a cashier back in 1996. I remember being pretty impressed with myself that I knew most of the produce. Now....just the bananas.

Avocado 4225 red bell 4688 asparagus 4080 broccoli crowns 3082 corn 4590 vidalia onion 4159

At Target it's 8011, since they are sold by the each.

I wanna know why we all remember that. And 2180

This is the first one everyone remembers

Grocery store cashier in 1997, was 4011 then, is 4011 now. Red delicious, 4026.

I worked in a grocery store 12 years ago. I only remember bananas. But I think dragonfruit is 4474?

Just bought bananas today at the self check out till. Finally that memory is useful again.

PLU for organic roma tomatoes is my zip code.

Ice's item number is 515232. I'm not about to walk my ass out to the cooler.

Food lion? You saying this reminded me of that damn plu I had memorized 15 years ago and haven't used since

Out of all the damn fruits and vegetables, I will never forget this one. I can remember codes, but I can't put the veg or fruit to them like: 4086, 4066, 4032, and what not.

Broccoli crowns are 3082.

Worked as a cashier at a grocery store in high school and it took 5+ years before I stopped identifying produce by PLU code instead of actual name.

Only been here 3 months.

Already identifying produce by PLU codes instead of names.

"Avocado? Oh you mean 4046!"

I currently work at a grocery store and 4011 is still the PLU for bananas!

4664 is for hothouse tomatoes on vine. 4799 is for their larger, off the vine cousins. 4087 is Romas and 4064 is field tomatoes.

Toss a 9 in front, and it'll give you organic.

Worked at a Highland Park Market in Connecticut. The only thing they told me to remember was the PLU for bananas.

I imagine its a right of passage for front-end workers.

This is perfect. I was a cashier then assistant manager at a supermarket as a summer job for a few years in college. Part of my job was to train new kid cashiers in the beginning of the summer. I swear, there were some kids who had IQs of a goldfish. After 3 days of training, did they know how to void a purchase? Nope. Enter a manual coupon? Nope. Give the right change? Nope. But EVERYONE remembered that PLUs for bananas were 4011.

Green bell peppers 4065. Cashiers unite!

OMG! That hits home...so hard...

Shit I remember that exact number too from the self checkout

As a former grocery store cashier, that number will forever be burned inside my cranium

I worked in a grocery store for 11 years. Its been three years since I've left and I still remember probably 89% of the PLU codes for produce.

I hit my SO with this bit of knowledge at the store yesterday. He looked at me like I was crazy.

06210000210 6 pack 710 canada dry. barcodes warped for life RIP.

Finally one I can relate too

4378 for nectarines, 4053 for large lemons, 4958 for small lemons. The list just goes on and on. I can't walk into a grocery store without seeing PLUs everywhere!

I need a new job.

ITT all the redditors stuck in shitty grocery retail

yaaaas

The PLU for fair trade bananas is 94011, however

Whole foods team members unite

Aw man, the first one any cashier learns at the grocery store. This made me so happy!

My birthday is 4/11, so as a kid I really identified with the banana code as my "birthday buddy"

341200 water category for the one fuckin brand they never added to the system until 3.5yrs of working there

Wow, is that universal? I had no idea. I was a cashier like 12 years ago.

Avocado is 4223 I believe ando white onions 4050

Damnn, I forgot I remembered this.. Is this a worldwide code or something? I kinda always thought it was store specific

As a former ACME employee, this is forever etched into my mind.

Its 1 in aus

33383 80101 is the plu for dill.

I never expected to relate this intensely to a reddit comment.

I know what you have done here...

8011 is individual should they make you weigh it.

Fark. I knew that to be true as soon as I saw it. I live in NZ and that was in 1995 I had that sucker memorised.

I was really banking on this being the same at all grocery/retail stores but it's different at Costco. Something I never thought I'd have to stress about.

I've never worked at a grocery store but I've managed to memorize this from seeing it on facebook so much

8011 in Target (California)

4072.... Russet Potatoes

Oooh!! Cooper Sharp Cheese is 5350! I was a deli man myself.

3338390001 is the SKU for 3lb organic onions. Replace the 9 with a 0 and you have 3lb regular onions

I worked at a grocery store for all of two months and still have some plu's memorized.

I waited tables and managed restaurants for many years, so I memorized a ton, but it always blows my mind how many PLU/SKU numbers yall seem to remember.

8200 is atlantic salmon

52242 is for Pot Barley which is $0.59/lb. So basically you can get anything you pay for by weight at self check out for $0.59 a pound (I.e. meat, veggies, fruit). A little poor man's LPT

Worked at a Kroger for 5 years. Love going to self checkout to see if I still know my produce

That's what I was going to post. I literally can't remember any other PLU. Just bananas.

For some reason that is the only PLU I remember as well. Something about it is so easy

What is 4022?

Iceberg lettuce 4012

Broccoli 4080

8011 for bananas at Target because they do them by weight, not quantity.

Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymore, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, Katherine Parr

From Mad Magazine, to the tune of There’s Nothing like a Dame:

There are wives whom you divorce;
There are wives whom you behead;
There are wives who are so stupid
That you wonder why you wed;
There are wives who go on nagging
Till you want to start a war—
But, what the heck, I’ll try one more.

sings I'm Henry the 8th I am, Henry the 8th I am, I am...

Thats some horrible history you know there

I'm Henry the 8th, I had six sorry wives, some might say I ruined their lives

Glad that's in my head instead of financial advice!

They teach me that instead of financial advice?

Glad i have that in my head instead of finacial advice. Ive got a headache the pain is ceaseless, what should i take? I dony know maybe some leaches?

Ahh, thou greatest song no?

https://vimeo.com/90738933

King Henry the Eighth to six spouses was wedded.
One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded.

(From one of the Louisa May Alcott books, if I recall, although I think she was reciting a popular mnemonic of the day.)

I've never been to England but I still have this memorized.

Found the fellow Brit.

Glad that's in my head instead of financial advice- (Don't Stay in School by Boy in a Band)

Henry VIII's wives?

I'm Henry the 8th, I had six sorry wives,

You could say I ruined their lives!

Ha. I love this one.

We were all taught this in school and we were all going on about it in the car a couple of years ago how it's still stuck in our heads even though we're all about 30 now. My brother looked confused as he clearly didn't remember it. We all started laughing at how he's the only person we know that can't remember.

He denied that he had forgotten it and kept insisting he knows it too. So we challenged him. He took a stab in the dark and this is what he came out with:

King Henry the 8th 6 wives he had, 6th Wives he had, King Henry the 8th.

There was a moment of silence and then eveyrone burst out laughing.

Still makes me chucckle.

"I'm Henry the 8th, I have 6 sorry wives" -horrible histories

Dave from boyinaband anyone?

Don't stay in school by boyinaband?

And I will have my vengeance. In this life or the next.

Ah, my Brit-Lit teacher used to drill this In out head. She was a genius too so I actually listened

That's hilarious. I was just thinking about this the other day. It's funny how I know exactly what you're talking about.

What is this?

Medieval version of marry, fuck, kill?

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Did you ever watch The Tudors? The show was so horrendously inaccurate from a historical pov, but it was a guilty pleasure for me.

Natalie Dormer was an amazing Anne Boleyn

Sing this as a chorus of happy little children.

Now I think of Gavin Free...

Crusader Kings or wives of Henry IIX?

May Shai Hulud clear the path before you.

for me it's the gunslinger's mantra/creed/oath.

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.”

busted that out in a D&D 5E session a while back as part of in-combat RP before fucking NAILING the holy trinity of attack rolls - nat 20 attack, maxed out damage dice and percent die for target. DM's jaw hit the table almost literally.

Damn, this is badass.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by juice of saphoo that thoughts acquire speed,
the lips acquire stains,
the stains become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Shameless plug here, but I did a typography print of this.

The Dune series is one of my most favorite series of all time.

What a great book...

I think I see 4 Dune references a week, somewhere in my life.

I got the second line tattooed on my bicep a little less than three months ago. I love this so much.

I always remember this because of Earthworm Jim.

*sips sapho juice

Although the bene Gesserit are kind of bitches.

I must drink beer.

Beer is the mind-killer.

Beer is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my beer.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the beer has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

Hey, I meant to ask, do the French really refer to orgasms as "the little death?"

Was Frank Herbert afraid of orgasms?

You need to watch doctor who.

Why does nobody recite the mentat speech?

Same. Also, "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by juice of Sapho that the thoughts acquire speed, lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

Pro tip: reciting this is a fantastic way to convince yourself to keep going if you ever find yourself running an ultramarathon. As a bonus, the sport is weird enough that nobody gives a fuck if you're talking to yourself. The poem Invictus is another good one.

My boyfriend and I love watching Preacher, and saying "he used the voice" whenever he uses Genesis.

The Hak-Kin-Dak Fear Mantra:

"I am not a fool. I am wise. I will run from my fear, I will out distance my fear, then I will hide from my fear, and I will wait for my fear, I will let my fear run past me, then I will follow my fear, I will track my fear until I can approach my fear in complete silence, then I will strike at my fear, I will charge my fear, I will grab hold of my fear, I will sink my fingers into my fear, then I will bite my fear, I will tear the throat of my fear, I will break the neck of my fear, I will drink the blood of my fear, I will gulp the flesh of my fear, I will crush the bones of my fear, and I will savor my fear, I will swallow my fear, all of it, and then I will digest my fear until I can do nothing else but shit out my fear.

In this way I will be made stronger."

By Mark Z. Danielewski

It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion.
By the beans of Java my thoughts acquire speed.
My hands acquire shaking; the shaking becomes a warning
It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion.

Or something like that.

I have this posted in front of my squat rack.

Thanks for posting this.

Looking back that book really influenced me a lot more than I ever realized at the time. The litany is a nice piece of world building... But jr high me took it as a model of how to face my fears, and the world.

Funny how incidental stuff like that ends up being such a deep part of ourselves.

MUAD'DIB! MUAD'DIB!

He could see the bloodied Atreides banners flying on far away planets. Paul had tried to avert this reality, but now not even his death could prevent it. Muad'Dib was more than him. The fires of the jihad would spread through the Galaxy, and the bloody Atreides eagle would fly above the faith crazed warriors of the Fremen.

I said this to myself before I jumped out of a plane. I use it all the time

Watching the first episode of Wilfred season 1. Just as I read this on Reddit, Wilfred began to recite it to Ryan. My biggest coincidence of the week.

My first encounter with this writing was it being narrated over a video of a cat laying on its back being vacuumed.

I also loved Earthworm Jim.

Eh? Eh? Pretty sweet reference guys. Eh?

This is what I came here for.

Fear is the little-death

The Petit Mort?

Good choice

I love you

Woah! In the earthworm Jim cartoons, Jims sidekick, Pete I think, used to say the first few lines of this when he got scared. I used to think it was cool as a kid so memorised it, but I had no idea it was from a larger body of work! Thanks!

I preferred the version from the mini series. I felt it flowed better:

I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me. When the fear has gone, there shall be nothing. Only I will remain.

Fear is the mind-killer.

you just reminded me of NFS U2.

I still hear this one in my dreams.

You dont forget the litany.

When I was little I memorised the Baron Harkonnen's finger tapping ritual: Pinky twice, index thrice, ring twice, pinky once, ring twice

FEAR CUTS DEEPER THAN SWORDS

GOAT

I first heard this thanks to Earthworm Jim

kwisatz haderach

This passage was in our issued study guide book at basic training. It was awesome seeing it there. Really motivating

Hey, it doesn't work for shit but it's still fun to say.

That's not what the little death is in French.😜

I just cracked open Dune this very night. Stoked to be diving in to it, finally.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Kevin please come over for gay sex.

King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti

Kings Play Chess On Fat Girls' Stomachs

Do kindly please come over for gay sex.

Kids Playing Catch On the Freeway Get Splattered

Kinky people can often find good sex

Kevin puts cars on fire, girls scream.

Keep Penis Clean Or Forget Good Sex

My class remembered this as;

Katy Perry Claims Orgasms Feel Good Sometimes

ELI5?

Kinky people come over for group sex.

Kings Play Chess On Flat Green Stools

Katy Perry came over for great sex

King Philip Came Over From Glorious Spain

My god, I came up with a mnemonic device for this in 10th grade, but I was told my version was stupid. I kinda want to keep it to myself since I'm salty, but here you go Reddit:

In the Kingdom of Phylum, there was a Class that Ordered a Family of Genus Species.

King Phillip Chased Only Fat Girl Scouts.

Parenthesis Exponent Multiply Division Addition Subtraction

King Philip Comes Over For Great Spaghetti

Whoa, coincidentally this is one of mine!

I was actually in the middle of a Wikipedia binge last night reading about insects and every time I saw the classification listing at the top of the page, that sequence of words would pop into my head. I've been repeating them silently all day now like some kind of mantra.

King's Pies Contain Only Firm Granny Smiths

killer pandas can overpower four girl scouts

Kings play chess on fine grained sand

Forgot Domain fam

Katy Perry Claims Orgasms Feel Good Sometimes

kids playing cards on freeways get smashed

If you include Domain: Donkey Kong Puts Coconuts On Fried Greasy Sandwiches.

Kevin Punts Cats Over Field Goal Score

Kiss Pretty Girl On Face; Get Slapped

Domain. Don't forget the domain!

King Philip Casually Orders Funny Gay Strippers

Krabby Patties cook on fucking grills, Spongebob

"Kip-cof-gus" as my friend liked to call it.

Dumb Kids Play Catch On Freeway Get Smashed

The Octopus is the exception to the mollusca phylum.

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Kinky Pigs Can Only Fly Going Sideways

King Phillip Come Over For Group Sex

Also this same teacher taught that the CG TA groupings on the DNA are "Cute Girls" and "Tits and Asses."

Learning becomes a bit strange at times in college.

This. I will NEVER forget that.

Does King Philip Come Over For Great Sex?

Forgot Domain BITCH.

Fucking A level biology

I was going to do this one too.

King Phillip Could Only Find Green Shoes

Holy shit, I was about to post this. I stayed up one night the week before finals (is that what it's called in middle school?) and studied this so hard that I can't forget.

Of course, it helped that over the counter "awake" pills had ephedrine in them at the time... And that they would sell them to a middle schooler

Katy Perry came over for great sex.

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To

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Data

Processing

for me it was: kings play chess or fight generally speaking

Kinky people can often find good sex.

Kings Prefer Cokes Over Frosty Grape Sodas

Kings play chess on fat girls' stomachs.

You forgot domain!

Also, my mnemonic:

Dumb kids playing cards on freeways get splatted

Prophase

Metaphase

Anaphase

Telephase

Kids Playing Chicken On Freeways Get Squished.

Kung Pao Chicken Order For Gene Simmons

Kinky People Create Orgies For Great Sex

King Penis Can Obtain Five Gallons of Sperm

Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Surfaces

King Prawn Curry or Fat Greasy Sausages.

I am from the UK, we have a lot of chip shops, come to think of it, my bio teacher must have really enjoyed her takeaways....

Kids playing catch on freeways get smashed.

King Philip can only fuck grade schoolers

I believe they added "Domain" on top of Kingdom now. like, Dear King Phillip Come Over For Good Soup.

Kermit Poured Caramel On Fozzie's Good Shoes.

King Phillip Came Over For Graduation Speeches.

King Phillip Cilled Other Family's Genius Son

Kindly Pass Claudia Oreos, For Goodness Sake.

Kings play chess on fat girls' stonachs

*Domain

Kids Put Condoms On For Great Sex, courtesy of my highschool bio teacher

King Phillip Came Over For Good Sex

Kids Playing Carelessly On Freeways Go Splat

Mr. Busch, you were a pretty sick dude.

Kings play chess on fiber glass stools. Thanks microbio

Kangaroos punch captive orphans for genuine satisfaction

Kings play chess on fine grained sand.

King Poop Craps Out Fucking Gay Shit

Actually, its DKP COFG

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

King Phillip Called Over Friendly Gay Snakes

King Phil Classes Ordinary Families as Generous and Special.

Kinky People Can Often Find Great Sex

Katy Perry Claims Orgasms Feel Good, Sometimes

My teacher told us Keep People Coming Over For Good Spaghetti

Keep penis clean or forget good sex

Yes! Did your teacher put the yes at the end??

Kinky people come over for great sex

You forgot domains.

Kevin, please come over for gay sex.

King Patrick Cums On Fraternity Girls Shoes.

Kangaroos pack cats over fairly grand sleighs!

Kids Play Chase On Freeways Get Smashed

King Penis Comes Out From Giving Sperm

" 'F' is for fire that burns down the whole town"