Fuck ok, no one will understand this except for all the older, So Cal cats, like myself. I was explaining pager language. Back in the day we didn't have cellphones or text messaging. And we couldn't always find a payphone, neither. And that shit was pricey as fuck! $.20 for 20 minutes of local calls. $1.00 for 3 minutes, anywhere in the US. Shit, I remember having to go to the mall to make those calls to the girls I was dating (more like, pursuing and getting rejected by and then saying, "Man, fuck this whole bullshit). Ok, I'm realizing that self deprecation will get you anywhere; so I'm exploiting the FUCK out of it.
Fuck, I really want to go into the intricacies of it but I'll just give you the basics. Roy is the expert pager guy, first on the block to rock the Bravo Express, clear pager case, melting crayons onto the motorola on the belt clips, rocking the long pager chains, etc. Ha! I got my first pager in 7th grade and thought I was the shit. Problem is that it was stolen so I had the audacity to return a page and get the number and then redistribute it to friends. Then you get voicemail and give your code to your girl (if you're a little bitch) and she'll either do your greeting message or check messages that you leave for her or check messages other people left you. There's this real art to it. Understand that sometimes, people will find toll free numbers to access their voicemails; so instead of dropping all your change, you just leave messages for each other. The original, ghetto message boards!
This is really going to date me and a few other folks. I guess for you younger veals, this is the "when I was your age, I had to type weird ass fucking numbers to create this one-way, text language." Now, the codes and numbers are different depending on where you're from (Valley, SGV, LA-LA, Glendale/Eagle Rock, Long Beach/Cerritos/Carson). But, here goes:
Basics (crypted by amount of letters in each word):
424 = call me back
143 = i love you
637 = always and forever
Urgency of page (so preface it with 424, different crypting)
2529 = asap
911 = now!
187 = pull the fuck over and call me, it's a straight up emergency, shit's going down
Now, the alphabet (it really depends on how each person does it, but this is, in my opinion, the best way of coding it). The real science is looking at each letter, and then seeing what number (or combination of numbers) will resemble it best -- sometimes the letters are upside down, sometimes you have to stretch your imagination and consider other people's alphabet (since a 6 can be many things, use rarer number to represent other letters so there's less of a mix up). Keep in mind, the numbers appear all blocky, like an alarm clock, back then:
A = 2
B = 8
C = 6
D = 0
E = 3
F = 9
G = 6
H = 4
I = 1
J = 7
K = 15 (use your imagination, but sometimes just spell the word with a C)
L = 1 (can get real messy if you spell out "will")
M = 177 (see it, now?)
N = 17
O = 0
P = 9
Q = 9 (because 9 is only reserved for P or F, there will be little ambiguity should you ever have to spell a word with Q)
R = 12
S = 5
T = 7
U = 17 (upside down)
V = 17 (figure out the word)
W = 177
X = 8
Y = 4
Z = 2
Where's my diaper, I need to take a shit. Ok, so:
Roe = 1203
Katie = 152713
Hip Hop = 419 409
Get it? Now you can chuck that shit out the window; you ain't ever going to use it, ever again! But fuck me for the possibility that one day you'll end up in a time warp and go back to 1992 and don't know how to ditch school, tell your love interest you love her (always and forever if you're as gay as me), call your homies because you're about to get your ass JUMPED!
Ha, Roy. Did that make you feel young again? Know what else works? Shaving your fucking thick, well-developed mustache. Ha!
-- Sonnyred
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Fuck, I really want to go into the intricacies of it but I'll just give you the basics. Roy is the expert pager guy, first on the block to rock the Bravo Express, clear pager case, melting crayons onto the motorola on the belt clips, rocking the long pager chains, etc. Ha! I got my first pager in 7th grade and thought I was the shit. Problem is that it was stolen so I had the audacity to return a page and get the number and then redistribute it to friends. Then you get voicemail and give your code to your girl (if you're a little bitch) and she'll either do your greeting message or check messages that you leave for her or check messages other people left you. There's this real art to it. Understand that sometimes, people will find toll free numbers to access their voicemails; so instead of dropping all your change, you just leave messages for each other. The original, ghetto message boards!
This is really going to date me and a few other folks. I guess for you younger veals, this is the "when I was your age, I had to type weird ass fucking numbers to create this one-way, text language." Now, the codes and numbers are different depending on where you're from (Valley, SGV, LA-LA, Glendale/Eagle Rock, Long Beach/Cerritos/Carson). But, here goes:
Basics (crypted by amount of letters in each word):
424 = call me back
143 = i love you
637 = always and forever
Urgency of page (so preface it with 424, different crypting)
2529 = asap
911 = now!
187 = pull the fuck over and call me, it's a straight up emergency, shit's going down
Now, the alphabet (it really depends on how each person does it, but this is, in my opinion, the best way of coding it). The real science is looking at each letter, and then seeing what number (or combination of numbers) will resemble it best -- sometimes the letters are upside down, sometimes you have to stretch your imagination and consider other people's alphabet (since a 6 can be many things, use rarer number to represent other letters so there's less of a mix up). Keep in mind, the numbers appear all blocky, like an alarm clock, back then:
A = 2
B = 8
C = 6
D = 0
E = 3
F = 9
G = 6
H = 4
I = 1
J = 7
K = 15 (use your imagination, but sometimes just spell the word with a C)
L = 1 (can get real messy if you spell out "will")
M = 177 (see it, now?)
N = 17
O = 0
P = 9
Q = 9 (because 9 is only reserved for P or F, there will be little ambiguity should you ever have to spell a word with Q)
R = 12
S = 5
T = 7
U = 17 (upside down)
V = 17 (figure out the word)
W = 177
X = 8
Y = 4
Z = 2
Where's my diaper, I need to take a shit. Ok, so:
Roe = 1203
Katie = 152713
Hip Hop = 419 409
Get it? Now you can chuck that shit out the window; you ain't ever going to use it, ever again! But fuck me for the possibility that one day you'll end up in a time warp and go back to 1992 and don't know how to ditch school, tell your love interest you love her (always and forever if you're as gay as me), call your homies because you're about to get your ass JUMPED!
Ha, Roy. Did that make you feel young again? Know what else works? Shaving your fucking thick, well-developed mustache. Ha!
-- Sonnyred
http://www.box.net/shared/vtqmf1y2o4
Next topic of discussion: The G Line (whassup whasssup)
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