It's a reference to a song ("867-5309 / Jenny") by Tommy Tutone. It's pretty dated by now.
Dated?!
DATED?!
BLASPHEMY!
;-)
Dated, just like putting noses to smileys!
iOS speech-to-text spells "smiley face" with a nose.
FWIW! :)
I feel older every day.
Better than not getting any older!
[Citation Needed]
Crap. I used to think being alive was better than being dead. But come to think of it, the only ones complaining are the ones who are still alive. I’m conflicted now.
It's as old now as the first Jazz concert at Carnegie hall was to it. Fred Astaire's "Nice Work if You Can Get It" was #24 on the charts that year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_in_music
It was fun to read about this in the North American Numbering Plan documentation.
If you're a child of the 80's in North America it does!
(Do a google search on the number, without the 0x0 prefix...)