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USA Weekend printed an excerpt from this list. However, the source of the article is Netlingo.com. And the fuuny (Sad, really) thing is that the ones that are listed in USA Weekend are probably the only ones on the list suitable for a family publication, so check out that list.

The ones that get me are the numbers.
Okay, I know what 420 is, and I can figure that 182 is I hate you because "eight two" rhymes with "hate you".
However, can someone explain the source of 143 and 459 as meaning "I love you"?

1 posted on 01/14/2008 3:39:09 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
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“However, can someone explain the source of 143 and 459 as meaning “I love you”?”

Sry, ttyl.


2 posted on 01/14/2008 3:42:56 PM PST by scottdeus12 (Jesus is real, whether you believe in Him or not.)
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I don’t know about these, but when I’m in a store and the clerk asks for my zip code, I tell them 90210 which rhymes with ‘No. Don’t Want You To Know’. Some get it. Most don’t.


3 posted on 01/14/2008 3:43:38 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (After six years of George W. Bush I long for the honesty and sincerity of the Clinton Administration)
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They forgot:


4 posted on 01/14/2008 3:44:01 PM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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"However, can someone explain the source of 143 and 459 as meaning "I love you"?"

Not sure about the "143" but on a phone keypad, "I-L-Y" is "459"

5 posted on 01/14/2008 3:44:42 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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They have marijuana wrong its - 13 or should be. Young people what do they know.
6 posted on 01/14/2008 3:44:49 PM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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One word Parent must know.

NO.


7 posted on 01/14/2008 3:46:42 PM PST by gridlock (300 Million Americans will not be elected President in 2008. Hillary Clinton will be one of them.)
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“I love you”=143=the number of letters in the phrase.


8 posted on 01/14/2008 3:47:54 PM PST by JOAT
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143...
If you type <3, that’s a heart, so I’m sure the 1 means “I” and the 4 is easier to text on a phone than a <, so there’s the angle needed to complete the heart.

....On a similar note, I find I have to visit Urban Dictionary.com a lot to figure out some of the teens’ lingo. Usually the word is harmless but some make you blush.


11 posted on 01/14/2008 3:50:23 PM PST by Dasaji (The U.S.A. is the Land of Opportunity and you've got 50 states to do it in!)
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Two of my favorites, learned from the metalworker’s newsgroup, are DAMHIKT, and SWMBO.


12 posted on 01/14/2008 3:51:19 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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I dunno, but if I caught any kid of mine using phrases like “hugh,” “series,” “Hugh Manatee,” or “ping Arthur McGowan” I’d know the little nipper was a FReeper. What could possibly be worse?


13 posted on 01/14/2008 3:51:51 PM PST by Billthedrill
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1174 - it means nude club

Nude club? Is that what those wacky kids are calling a t!tty bar these days?

16 posted on 01/14/2008 3:56:38 PM PST by OCC
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MY Favorite is still the acronym we were taught to use on Computer trouble calls -— PEBCAK


17 posted on 01/14/2008 3:56:41 PM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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I 1
love 4
you 3


21 posted on 01/14/2008 4:04:11 PM PST by Ingtar (I find it amazing how deciding to run for president changes a man's stands on issues)
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Um could those be ‘threesome’ and ‘a lewinsky’?


22 posted on 01/14/2008 4:05:00 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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IIRC, 143 meaning “I love you” comes from the number of letters in each word, and came to common knowledge via Nick & Danielle, a couple of the last installment of Big Brother.


23 posted on 01/14/2008 4:05:43 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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In the future, not only will our attention spans shorten to the that of a squirrel’s, we will also lose our ability to comprehend complex language.


24 posted on 01/14/2008 4:05:56 PM PST by PGR88
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459 are the numbers on the phone pad for ILY
458 are the numbers on the phone pad for ILU


25 posted on 01/14/2008 4:06:23 PM PST by Ingtar (I find it amazing how deciding to run for president changes a man's stands on issues)
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so what does 693 mean


28 posted on 01/14/2008 4:16:53 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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$750 Billion for education. For this ??


30 posted on 01/14/2008 4:21:24 PM PST by libh8er
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However, can someone explain the source of 143 and 459 as meaning "I love you"?

143: I for thee?

31 posted on 01/14/2008 4:21:34 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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