I celebrate the simplicity of my bed sheet arrangement with some scales on the viola. Doesn’t everyone?? 
That last part isn’t true anymore. The first two digits used to indicate the state in which you were born, but they changed that somewhere between three and five years ago ( My five year old son has the same first two digits as me, my three year old son does not).
I didn’t say that all SSNs in some state start with 12x. 123 could be Minnesota while 124 is somewhere in New Jersey for all I know. But if someone has the same first 3 as you, odds are that they are from the same general area.
For example, it looks like even back in the day (1982), Arizona used 526-527 (among others), while Utah used 528-529. Same first two digits even then.
So is mine. It’s also on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day.
OK, is someone going to tell me what the by-God thing is with the arrow on my fuel gauge already?!?!?!
It points to which side of the car your tank is on, so you know how to pull up to a gas pump.
Next to the little image of a gas pump on your fuel guage there is a little arrow telling you which side of the car the gas port is on, I presume?
Oh my gosh!!! That explains it. I have a family member who has lived in Queens, and every time I sent a thank you card to Flushing I would think to myself, “Huh, I always thought she lived in Queens.”
I’m ashamed to say how old I was when I realized that ‘Beatles’ was a play on the word ‘beat’ (as in; he’s got the beat) rather than a generic name of a type of insect.
Damn, I spent the last 15 minutes reading this thread and was just going to post the exact same thing. Also the Beatles also wanted their name to be similar to Buddy Holly and the Crickets. And the Turtles were some other crawly things.
I always thought the Rolling Stones were a variation of the phrase “Rock and Roll”
You were correct, it was the first three digits (not two) that indicated the geographical area. However, as I said, that is no longer true for new SSNs.
Hah! Me too. I had to move to New York State before I figured it out. My new zip code started with a 1!
“I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so”
Thanks. So then is the rest of the number the same? Last four are sequential (I think?) within the semi-sequential group of the middle 2 digits?
In our house, the sheets are stacked with the top and bottom together. We can get 3 or 4 sets in each pile. The pillowcases are stacked separately, but with matching ones together, because the cupboard is only wide enough for two piles of sheets and one pile of pillow cases. It’s nice to have them all on the same shelf.
Indeed!
You’re probably mis-remembering Amadeus, or “God’s Love”. Same as Gottlieb. And Theophilus. Dore or Dora as a prefix or suffix means “gift”, so Pandora is “all gifts” and Theodore is “God’s gift”.
Nope. Just an honest mistake. I had a grandfather named Theodore, and he always thought it came from the Greek word for a deity, “theos,” and the Latin “adorare,” love, from which we get the word “adore.”
I never looked it up.
It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the Latin *adorare *comes from the Greek for gift, to wit: worship involving gifts to God (burnt offerings, etc., not to mix too many cultures…)
Not according to Kirk Cameron. Then again, monkeys are athiests.