CNN Web Site: The cover photo right now (3:15 pm CST) shows Joe Jackson standing with Jesse Jackson and an unidentified man.
Mr. (Joe) Jackson has a cap on that appears to have the number “142” sewn on it.
Around here, when the kids wear a cap with that number, it means “I love me”; it’s sort of a play or pun on the practice of signing letters or emails or texts with the number 143, meaning “I love you.”
Yeah, very funny, Mr. Jackson. That explains a lot about Michael’s sad life.
AMAPAC
Why does 143 mean “I love you”?
143 means I love you? Okay, 'splain please.
The number of letters in each word.
133 would be ‘I eat you’.
That’s dumb. 143 could just as easily mean “I fuck you”, “I like pie”, or “I hump cat”
Context is everything.
By that logic 143 could mean I hate you, or I rape you, or I f*ck you, or I hate men, etc… it’s idiotic.
Is this the death of English?
Gah.
See the thing is, in my world, I would be equally likely to use all of those phrases in any context.
“Take five” could mean “Take a dump on my shoes”. “Eighty-six” could mean “take this object and crack me in the head with it, please”.
But they don’t.
Oops.
Well that explains something.
Nope. It’s just a little something that cropped up when beepers came on the scene. Since you could only send the recipient numbers, not text, it was just a way to convey a short, common message.
UGH. And no thank you. I don’t even like it when people text stuff like L8R etc.
143 is meaningless and cheap. I love you may be overused and (at times) trite, but I’ll take that over “here’s my secret decoder rings special message just 4 U” crap any day.
I love (@)(@)
10-4.
I love cinnamon buns too, but the second one always makes me feel a bit queasy.
You…bastard. I don’t know why they haven’t banned you for this yet.
The nipple to boob ratio is huge! Just sayin’.
My husband just told me to shut up, as he’s on the phone and does not want the person he is speaking with to hear me cackling as I read this page.
(Cackles quietly to self.)