My fave use of an area code was in the movie Go when one girl said to another, "Don't go 818 on me, Claire." HAHAHA! Made funnier by the fact that I'm in the 818! Go Valley!
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
(I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty, is all. Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.
Yeah, what David said--definitely in rap songs.
Though my brother in law's sister is trying to be a singer, and style herself as the "princess of 'The Lou'" (sp?). Apparently she is from St. Louis. But I heard this and went "princess of the LOO???" and though of the bathroom. Never having heard of a nickname for St. Louis being "the Lou".
I think my favorite area code shout out is in "Peaches and Cream". Heh....from the 404 to the 212....
beth, that link was fabulous! i'm now watching all his other vids.
It also led me to Olga Korbut's high bar routine from 1972, which, damn.
The CBC has had some athletes and journalists keep blogs of their Olympic experience. The swimming commentator, who competed for Canada in the '72 Olympics, has a great post about a near miss with the hostage-takers in Munich.
The movie “Munich” by Stephen Spielberg opens with the terrorists readying to hop the Athletes Village fence at 4 a.m. There are also four American athletes in the movie version who, after some jovial chatter, all jump the fence.
This is not accurate. They were not American athletes; it was me and three other Canadians. And there was most certainly no camaraderie among the two groups, who stayed 50 metres apart from one another.
I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty,
Really? I've heard it a lot. Mostly in rap songs.
Ah -- see, no wonder I wasn't familiar with it. I'm not really down with the rap music and the bling and The Nati, dig?
And yeah, I think of area codes as being A Thing. Like, you know, hoes in different area codes.
Area Codes in which Ludacris Claims to Have Hoes
Really? I've heard it a lot. Mostly in rap songs.
French rap does this too, with a lot of references to the "93" (93 being the department code for Seine-Saint-Denis, a rough neighborhood just north of Paris).
“Ludacris has hoes in the Midway and Wake Islands. Only scientists are allowed to inhabit the Midway Islands, and only military personnel may inhabit the Wake Islands. Draw your own conclusion.”
Heh.
There is a whole set of social markers that go with each LA area code. In general, I find it pretty eyerolly but that may be because I'm from the "rich and snobby" area code and yet live in a solidly middle class, boringly residential neighborhood and can't really identify with either rich or snobby.