# I'm gonna burn a hot one in hell for this! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588 "2011-03-31T01:41:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588/101 "2011-04-06T23:24:51Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I lived with my grandparents for a couple of years when I was a teen (long story). My grandparents’ phone number, which they’d had for something like 30 years at that point, was something like 817-555-1234. A local hospital started running TV ads for something, which would flash the hospital number…817-555-5555 and in the line below would say EXT 1234. They didn’t use sound for the number, just the visual. People would think that the extension number wasn’t an extension, but an alternate last four numbers for the phone number. > > My grandfather asked the hospital management, politely, to change their ads, because he was tired of getting phone calls for the hospital. Nope, it cost them LOTS OF MONEY to make those ads, and by gum, he could just tell everyone about the extension number. He got tired of this, and found out the private home number of the head of the hospital. From then on, when someone called Grandpa’s number, he’d give out the head’s number. > > Amazingly, the ads were changed to something that was a bit clearer. Your Grandfather’s newsletter, I wish to subscribe to it. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588/102 "2011-04-06T23:45:39Z")
ahem…still waiting for proof ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588/103 "2011-04-07T06:34:59Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Your Grandfather’s newsletter, I wish to subscribe to it. I think it boils down to “be a passive aggressive self righteous pompous son of a bitch”. He was nearly as intelligent as he thought he was. But he did have his good ideas, and that was one of them. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588/104 "2011-04-07T15:36:51Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > /end of conversation. So, Shakes, how was the party? BTW, my pastor’s opinion: “Sounds like everybody on your message board needs to lighten up, and stop over-thinking every little thing”. Wow. He nailed it in one – took me a couple of years to figure that one out… ```auto We had a drunk call us up late one night: "Didjoo know your phone number spells "BeerKeg"? I tried to get that number and they said it was taken." ``` ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588/105 "2011-04-07T15:51:26Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So, Shakes, how was the party? > > BTW, my pastor’s opinion: “Sounds like everybody on your message board needs to lighten up, and stop over-thinking every little thing”. > > Wow. He nailed it in one – took me a couple of years to figure that one out… I’m offended that he’d lump me in with is group! HOW DARE HE! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588/106 "2011-04-07T16:05:22Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > I’m offended that he’d lump me in with is group! HOW DARE HE! 😃 Yeah, come to think of it, he was accusing _me_ of over-thinking things, too… Guess I belong here, then. [grouphug!] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-burn-a-hot-one-in-hell-for-this/576588.md?page=5)