Lemon_Curry: Do not call this number folks!
Beware, take care... beware!:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1424131 Who are you working for skeletonbow?!
The truth is out there... and I need more coffee.
skeletonbow: Hahaha... that's so funny... It isn't a phone number, it is "extreme agreement". Where when someone says "+1" they mean "yes, I agree with you, add one to the number of people agreeing with what you just said", "+2" would mean "count me for two votes of agreement". And of course "+97149727491283" is a bunch of random numbers typed quickly like a cat walking across the number keys represents "I really really agree with what you just said immensely, count me as 97149727491283 votes".
What's funny is that such a convention is very common in IRC channels and other forums I hang out in for 15 years or more so I have used it like I would say on IRC where the convention is just understood to mean "I couldn't agree with you more". For example, here is one comment from someone in IRC earlier today in response to something I said:
<Hetrik> skeletonbow: +879346598734659873465987324659872346598236459872364597623489762398742345
As you can see... Hetrik really really agrees with me. ;o) Anyhow, they are randomly typed numbers and not phone numbers. Who the heck dials a random number someone posts online somewhere anyway? :) That sounds pretty dangerous if you ask me. :)
Anyhow hopefully some of you got a laugh out of that like I did. It never would have even occurred to me that someone would have misunderstood "+<big long number>" to be a telephone number to dial. LOL
Thanks for the explanation ;) I did'nt understand at first but i was afraid of looking like a newb if I asked ;) I used my incredible detective skills and googled it but didn't find anything... Anyway, glad i'm not the only one waiting for that postal 2 update!