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I don't understand this phone number.


(The number that Rufus dials to take Bill and Ted to Austria in 1805 is 1-323-459-4303)

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1 to call collect, 323 for 323 years before the box was created, 459 for the time, and 4303 for its latitude and longitude.

lol.

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LOL Okay

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Someone is Los Angeles owns it -- just Googled it.

Can you imagine that poor guy? At least once a week he must get:

"Hello?"
"69, DUDES!!!"

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Someone is Los Angeles owns it -- just Googled it.

Can you imagine that poor guy? At least once a week he must get:

"Hello?"
"69, DUDES!!!"


I literally "lol'd" at this. haha

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I'm so tempted to do that. Although I'm too nice.

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Can you imagine that poor guy? At least once a week he must get:

"Hello?"
"69, DUDES!!!"


Can you imagine how many times people have dialed 867-5309 and asked for Jenny?

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Dumb story: You know how supermarkets now have discount programs that track customers by their phone number? I lived in Seattle when I went to college in the early 00s, and there was a Safeway supermarket that had just started a similar "customer rewards" thing. When you got your receipt, it printed out your name and telephone number at the bottom. Someone had got the wise idea of signing up using not only the 867-5309 number, but with the first name AND last name of Jenny. So if you used that number instead of your own (I just did it on a whim one day) you'd get a receipt that said "Jenny, Jenny (867-5309)", which is the full name of the song.

I was really amused by this back then, and it still makes me smile.

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"1 to call collect, 323 for 323 years before the box was created, 459 for the time, and 4303 for its latitude and longitude. "

It's a time machine, despite the phonebooth-like appearance. How do you "call collect" on a time machine?

Anyway, that is a bit of a stretch; how would every time-traveler always know and remember when the time machine was created? Wouldn't it be better to simply choose the year?

Also, the TIME doesn't match. If it can only be three numbers, what do you do when the time is 10, 11 or 12? And even if it could be four numbers (though in this case, it should be 0459 and always have four numbers, if we go by your phone-number-logic)..

.. then how do you signify am/pm? Does the machine randomize it? Or is there a separate switch for it somewhere?

There are many kinds of latitude and longitude - there are also minutes, seconds, etc.

And 43S,03E would be in the middle of the ocean.

Sorry, your theory is debunked.

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"1 to call collect, 323 for 323 years before the box was created, 459 for the time, and 4303 for its latitude and longitude. "

It's a time machine, despite the phonebooth-like appearance. How do you "call collect" on a time machine?


Yeah, come on man. Explain yourself!

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Hmm...

'1' is for 'long distance'.

'323' you can subtract from the manufacturer date on the preventative maintenance sticker that I'm sure is affixed in there.

24 hour clock.

Leaving 3 numbers for location:

Maybe the phone booth won't land just 'anywhere', but at predestined spots in a grid like in Sim-City.
The 3 digits are the destination grid square - of which there are 999.



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