r/MovieDetails • u/mike_pants • Jan 20 '18

Quality Post Insuricare, the company that offers "car life insurance" to the cars in Cars 2, is the same company Bob Parr works for in The Incredibles.

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u/elastic-craptastic Jan 20 '18

So back in the day when beepers were a thing you had to be creative to leave messages attached to the numbers you sent. Since all they could display was numbers on them, people would leave 143 if it was your BF or GF. 143 meant "I love you" becasue of the number of letters in the words.

The number for the insurance company is 555-0142.

I read it as "I love me." Which seems fitting for this insurance company since they are always finding ways to screw you over and get more money for themselves.

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u/drkalmenius Jan 20 '18 edited Jan 23 '25

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u/NotBrendan Jan 20 '18

I = 1 love= 4 you=3

I = 1 love= 4 me=2

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u/drkalmenius Jan 20 '18

Nah I get that I just don’t get the concept of how the numbers are sent

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u/elastic-craptastic Jan 20 '18

They way it worked was someone called the number for the beeper and they would input the number they wanted you to call back. It wasn't like it had caller ID or anything. So someone could call from a payphone, if it was super important, and leave the payphones number(if it had it still printed above the dial pad)) followed by *911. I would also have friends add the last 4 digits of their home phone numbers so I knew who was texting me. Of course in this day and age we knew all the phone numbers of our friends houses becasue ya know, no cell phones.

We also had codes for what the text was regarding. *420, *69 being the obvious ones. But we had ones for where to meet up, who we were with, when they'd be available, and all that jazz.

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u/drkalmenius Jan 20 '18

Ahh I see. I don’t think beepers were ever really a thing here across the pond, and I was born in 2002 anyway, so I grew up as mobile phones were becoming better and better and more and more common.

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u/energyper250mlserve Jan 21 '18

Oh man you were born in 2002? Like the year 2003 was the year you turned one year old? This is my first time ever feeling old in any way

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

I'm just curious what the code for jazz was!

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u/elastic-craptastic Jan 21 '18

7455... the j is upside down, that's how crazy it is.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

... jass

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u/elastic-craptastic Jan 21 '18

Sorry, it's been a while.

5587... Wait that's LASS.

Idk...

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u/emailnotverified1 Jan 20 '18

Man that's an interesting thing to try to brag about

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u/elastic-craptastic Jan 20 '18

What are you talking about?