Zombie_61
Master Member
Being a business, they probably lobbied for that phone number--it would almost be free advertising.
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Bear
Sr Member
I know this has already been covered, but it's really been bugging me lately.
- Screeching tires on any surface (gravel, grass, etc)
- Computers that make sounds for every little task they perform.
NCIS is very bad for this. I'm a big fan of the show and watch old episodes all the time, but I've discovered that as I watch them, these two things bug me more and more.
And it seems to get worse in every new season.
Fume...Rant...Rave...
- Screeching tires on any surface (gravel, grass, etc)
- Computers that make sounds for every little task they perform.
NCIS is very bad for this. I'm a big fan of the show and watch old episodes all the time, but I've discovered that as I watch them, these two things bug me more and more.
And it seems to get worse in every new season.
Fume...Rant...Rave...
Riceball
Master Member
On the subject of computer tech, I get tired of seeing the super zoom capability and magic enhancement software that seems to be available. Let's take this fuzzy, grainy, blurred, and not to mention tiny picture, click a few keys on the keyboard and, voila, it's now clear as can be and 10 times as large. As someone who works in graphics for a living and having used all versions of Photoshop since 3.0 and there's no way no way to unblur an image to the point of being crystal clear, nor is there any way of blowing up an image from a tiny pinhead to an 8x10 unless it's at a very high resolution.
p51
Sr Member
That was a valid # in my hometown in Florida, and I always wondered who had it. No, I never called it.
Not a shopping cart... a Fruit Stand! Get it straight! I don't think I've ever seen in real life a corner fruit stand anywhere... but I'm sure if I started a high speed chase somewhere, they would pop out in front of me EVERYTIME!
It actually ended up being an actual number of Jenny but she had the number changed the number ended up falling to an elderly woman in Idaho somewhere who was bothered by people calling it all the time! Now it's more of a pop-icon and the phone company tries to avoid giving out randomly. You can however pay to have the number! I know of several businesses that have gleened onto it in the not so distant past.
But I think one of the best phone numbers that turned out to be a real number was one in Austin Powers that turned out to be the Movie-fone number. You'd call it and it would say "Welcome to Movie-Fone!"... was pretty cool! I remember when I was younger I would dial numbers at random using the letters on the number pad. You'd be surprised what numbers are actually valid. My first BBS system I ran back in the 80s was called the Programmer's Mega-Source BBS (or the PMS BBS)... and the phone number was PER-IODS (I kid you not and it wasn't even planned that way!)
BATIMAN
Sr Member
Not a shopping cart... a Fruit Stand! Get it straight! I don't think I've ever seen in real life a corner fruit stand anywhere... but I'm sure if I started a high speed chase somewhere, they would pop out in front of me EVERYTIME!
well in Britain its normally a shopping cart LOL
p51
Sr Member
Going down an alley, big moving trucks or garbage trucks pulling right out into your path... that actually happens to me all the time. The nearest real to where I live, one back alley is a good shortcut to avoid several traffic lights and I used to go down through there often. I used to have trucks pull out in front of me all the time. A pal was with me once and it happened, and he laughed, saying, "I thought this only happened to people in the movies!"
But fruit carts? Yeah, never seen one on a street corner anywhere in the US, and I've been to all 50 states.
But fruit carts? Yeah, never seen one on a street corner anywhere in the US, and I've been to all 50 states.
Zombie_61
Master Member
Oh, yeah, everyone knows fruit stands are notorious for jumping in front of speeding vehicles. Happens to me all the time.Not a shopping cart... a Fruit Stand! Get it straight! I don't think I've ever seen in real life a corner fruit stand anywhere... but I'm sure if I started a high speed chase somewhere, they would pop out in front of me EVERYTIME!
Bronson BB
Well-Known Member
...Or two guys carrying a huge pane of glass!
BATIMAN
Sr Member
Don't you know? To go faster all you have to do is snap your head back.
p51
Sr Member
How about in sci-fi when people simply don't question where a stranger came from?
On Doctor Who and Trek, you saw it all the time, someone would just show up on a tiny little planet with a small civilization (excuse for a limited number of extras, as many of these small societies on these shows were hardly big enough for an effectice breeding population) and the locals would never question where exactly the tall curly-headed guy in the long scarf or all these guys in red shirts and black bell-bottom pants just showed up from...
Or for that matter, if the subject ever did come up, how willingly people would accept it. If that happened NOW, nobody would believe it, you know a middle-ages society would want to burn you as a witch or something.
On Doctor Who and Trek, you saw it all the time, someone would just show up on a tiny little planet with a small civilization (excuse for a limited number of extras, as many of these small societies on these shows were hardly big enough for an effectice breeding population) and the locals would never question where exactly the tall curly-headed guy in the long scarf or all these guys in red shirts and black bell-bottom pants just showed up from...
Or for that matter, if the subject ever did come up, how willingly people would accept it. If that happened NOW, nobody would believe it, you know a middle-ages society would want to burn you as a witch or something.
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