The Mysterious Phone Number From The 90's
In the early 90's one phone number would catch the eyes of many users in canada. It's cryptic nature and speculation to this day has left this an unsolved mystery. In today's video, we're going to take a look at one of the most enigmatic phone numbers and try and figure out what happened.
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Update: The recording was Found in a recording from an audio engineer in 2014! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pGuhy7qlc5Opj9Y.html Update 2: Pretty much solved. Here’s a full reddit thread www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/egk7dc/1800golftip_updates_at_the_end_of_2019/?
@mellobii
4 жыл бұрын
FIRST REPLY *stupid giggle noises*
@albiedanoob
4 жыл бұрын
wat
@ausername5410
4 жыл бұрын
Barely Sociable Damn, impeccable recommendation time KZread!
@Lichtboys
4 жыл бұрын
I love how you give updates! Tbh one of the best channels and I can’t wait for more content
@dranty7198
4 жыл бұрын
this is epic
I was born in 80 and idk wtf this is. I was too busy calling KFC to ask them how big their breast were.
@Idlehandsmedia
4 жыл бұрын
noahkb80 did you get an answer
@noahkb80
4 жыл бұрын
It went extremely well! I received a broad range of answers. From "I dont know" to " 3 to 5 ounces" to "baby, you can't handle all these breastses". 😳👐😍🤣
@noahkb80
4 жыл бұрын
The advent of *69 really threw a wrench in my prank call game. I remember the first time I got called back. I didnt even know it was a thing!...... "Hello? Who is this ?!?!? Uh uh uh uh ....f*** you!" click 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️ run my tail off outside. "Nope I been playing outside all day" 😰
@berlin7817
4 жыл бұрын
KFC got dat big breast energy
@stephonauseon
4 жыл бұрын
My mans is a LEGEND 😂
"they tore the theater down to make a tim hortons" everything starts and end at tim hortons ashes to ashes, tim hortons to tim hortons
@gayghst2877
4 жыл бұрын
This made me laugh more than it should've
@peterparkerspizzaface1515
4 жыл бұрын
T I m h o r t o n s
@why5981
4 жыл бұрын
in a few years the whole country will be tim hortons.
@peterparkerspizzaface1515
4 жыл бұрын
Why My KZread channel is Tim Hortons (obvious plug).
@acedv6134
4 жыл бұрын
Tim Hortons takes over.
All phone numbers were mysterious in the 90's. When the phone rang, you didn't know who it was until you picked it up!
@jboswell1768
3 жыл бұрын
And you couldn't just Google a number either. I miss the mystery of the 90s
@Nealrex101
3 жыл бұрын
@Newsbender I dunno how to tell you pal, but the 90's fuckin sucked too
@theearth284
3 жыл бұрын
@Newsbender sorry but uh, nothing changed other then technology advanced, but its always been fucked
@bluemeep5861
3 жыл бұрын
@Newsbender the fuck type of life did u think we lived in the 90s???? Shit has been fucked for the longest time you shelter baby
@77zayd4
3 жыл бұрын
The 90s Aesthetic was nice but things were the same
In 97' me and my siblings were home alone one evening, and we got call after call to our home phone from an unknown number, every time we answered we could only hear loud, deep, heavy breathing, naturally we panicked and made sure all the doors and windows were locked so we could listen & wait for our mother to get home. Turns out it was my mother's new squeeze unknowingly leaning on his old school mobile, speed dialling us over and over while he ate a takeaway like an orc.
@seanwood2455
Жыл бұрын
Someone once called me at like 7:30 in the morning before I went to work. I answered because the number had tried to call the previous day but I didn't pick up. They called and sounded like they were choking to death on the other end. I called back with no response and left a strongly worded voicemail and then proceeded to call the non-emergency dispatch line in my small town. Later the number called back again. It was a 11 year old kid who told me that someone was "using their phone number to do prank calls" and got spooked because the police came to their house to check out of their was an issue (I guess they found the location from the phone number I gave to dispatch). Never got another prank call from that number (wonder why!)
@kodiecummings2793
Жыл бұрын
This made me laugh so hard omg
@un_ubcribed
Жыл бұрын
I thought you were going to say it was Jimmy Savile
@sexygirlmax2019
5 ай бұрын
I cant stop rereading the end and cackling like a maniac omg
@herpaderp-bp4pe
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂@@un_ubcribed
I believe it means: To improve your golf game, count to 10, then scream like a siren before teeing off. That's my theory.
@whowhatandwhere5477
4 жыл бұрын
I worked in telecoms in UK, we used to play a 'screamer' tone automatically if a phone was left off the hook for a long time. The idea was, by attracting attention to the noise, the subscriber would get irritated and hang up the call. I assume 1-800 numbers have to pay something to their phone provider despite giving free calls to incoming calls. Perhaps this was to prevent the 0800 number accruing unnecessary charges for incoming calls..?
@joploi
4 жыл бұрын
@@whowhatandwhere5477 wow that is quite possibly the smartest thing ive heard all year
@11111dp
4 жыл бұрын
who what and where 😹😹😹😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@tylern6420
4 жыл бұрын
I'd do this:I'd start saying "hello?" for about 3 minutes, then I'd put the caller on "semi-hold" after warning the caller, where I can listen and I do a "dut-dut" noise and if he replies, or if he touches any number, the "semi-hold" will be canceled.
@goodbye5450
4 жыл бұрын
Makes sense
I did computer maintenance during the 90's and used to use that number to check if my modems could dial successfully. I knew it would always answer and that nobody would be on it except a recording.
@RNRacres
3 жыл бұрын
at least that's confirmation it existed. Im struggling to find anyone who remember it, and I grew up near St Catherines.
@laurieberry4814
3 жыл бұрын
I had a man call me up and tell me that he was going to shoot himself in his head.
@emilyd.6371
3 жыл бұрын
@@laurieberry4814 what?
@sk8absence
3 жыл бұрын
@@emilyd.6371 yeah lol wtf
@javierdenardo2607
3 жыл бұрын
Lol
"List Trading" was a big thing in the late 80's and 90's, when you brought that up at the end it made perfect sense. Getting active phone numbers and selling lists of them made you lots of money.
"This call is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends."
@eldaxeruskalocraw4213
3 жыл бұрын
Your profile pic goes very well with your comment
Saying this is the most mysterious in the 90’s implies the existence of 00’s mysterious numbers, and 10’s mysterious numbers I am fan of trilogies
@helloofthebeach
4 жыл бұрын
If he can get a video up on the 20's most mysterious number before the end of the year, I'd appreciate it.
@RanDoom_Guy21
4 жыл бұрын
The sequel is never better than the original
@raynjpg
4 жыл бұрын
RanDoom guy Clearly you've never watched Terminator.
@dandanthedandan7558
4 жыл бұрын
In a year we can get a tetralogy
@mooganify
4 жыл бұрын
80s?
I called it. Was not disappointed 10/10 will call again for sarah
@mdnxcksmxza1081
4 жыл бұрын
Ok sir'
@squigga5957
4 жыл бұрын
I liked evie she was nice
@justan0here603
4 жыл бұрын
On then
@pomf5207
4 жыл бұрын
I got Sarah as well lol
@methcurry6887
4 жыл бұрын
I called and got a dude...
In the 1980's we had the Devils phone number, so way more entertaining! Being a disgruntled kid forced to attend Catholic school I loved it. You dialed 666-6969 and it made horrid sounds, clicks, and screeches. By the mid 90's we learned what a modem sounded like and had flashbacks. :P
@dalton7145
2 жыл бұрын
Lol I remember that and also another one that I can't mention..wouldn't want to get canceled
@Colt-kv6xr
2 жыл бұрын
@@dalton7145 please?
@beesree39
2 жыл бұрын
@@dalton7145 nobody cares just tell us lmao
@MrzGEISHA
2 жыл бұрын
Lmao yooooo! I remember that shit, i called once bc that scared me so bad🥴🤣🤣
@BurnDoubt
2 жыл бұрын
Wow I would have never remember that
Contact the company that owns the billboard, or whoever they bought it from. Maybe they have a record of the ad, or they remember who ordered it, etc. Maybe a dead-end, maybe not.
Everyone gangsta until someone searches "SEARCH"
@davethescrub858
4 жыл бұрын
*gasp* what it do nephew?
@sbuppy8713
4 жыл бұрын
@@davethescrub858 look at the first 5 seconds of the vid and pay a ton of attention
@yuckyballsack5259
4 жыл бұрын
@@sbuppy8713 on youtube?
@jakefletcher4215
4 жыл бұрын
Is the start a man pulling a shopping cart
@eggygeorge
4 жыл бұрын
What is it ? Do you mean search it on KZread or Google ?
Add a public comment...
@Enzaio
4 жыл бұрын
'Google Search' isn't even the top hit.
@wrytte
4 жыл бұрын
@@Enzaio it is now lol what was it before??
@Enzaio
4 жыл бұрын
@@wrytte It probably varies from person to person. For me it was an ad.
@Enzaio
4 жыл бұрын
@@panicattack8284 Fair point haha.
@tealover4870
4 жыл бұрын
I looked up SEARCH and all I got was a 2018 thriller movie
I worked at a hospital in the 90's in NM, but very close to the AZ border. They installed a 1-800 number so patients calling from AZ wouldn't have to pay long distance fees. At some point,, someone hijacked the number and was using it as a porn line. I once had an angry patient who came in and complained that he tried to call for a doctors appointment, but he got a woman named Candi who talked dirty to him. One of the nurses called the number and sure enough, Candi answered on the first ring! I love these phone mysteries.
@sabetoonth
10 ай бұрын
Funny enough, I just tried the number and it gave me a medical center.
By some odd glitch in the matrix, my wife and I had dinner at the Arby's across the street from Lands End Landscaping and the billboard in the north end of St. Catharines earlier this evening. And then later your video comes up in my recommendations - which got me hooked on the mystery. Never heard about this until just now (and I've lived in Niagara region 25 yrs).
“This place has since been torn down and replaced by a Tim Horton” - most Canadian sentence ever spoken
@daveh2612
4 жыл бұрын
Harvey Manfrenchensen That Tim Hortons was then torn down and replaced by a Canadian Tire
@joemomma3920
4 жыл бұрын
And then the harveys got replaced by a fountain tire
@devinm.2398
4 жыл бұрын
Scrambled Eggs then the fountain got replaced by Canadian milk chocolate
@matthewvandyk7773
4 жыл бұрын
Haha my dad remembers the old building before Tim's was built. St kits is my hometown. Can't believe I didnt know about this phone number.
@JimA-pp2nu
4 жыл бұрын
Tom Horton's or a gay bar
If you can give me a day or two to move a cassette recording to a digital format, I can email you a copy of the audio from calling golf tip
@danhunter5680
4 жыл бұрын
.
@BarelySociable
4 жыл бұрын
Post on subreddit!
@athenscityriders8470
4 жыл бұрын
@@danhunter5680 Send him a direct message dude!
@MrKeserian
4 жыл бұрын
Ya, I'd like to take a look at this. I want to take a look at it in Audacity and see if I can't figure out whether the number playing is actually a recording of a person reading through a set of numbers, or some sort of digitally generates speach.
@dawnevolution2819
4 жыл бұрын
@@BarelySociable I caption phone calls- I often hear a screaming noise come through the lines. A lot of times, it's a really weird tone used for the hearing impaired to be able to hear, I believe. Maybe that's the "screaming/alarm"? I'm not sure if these tones were all to frequent at that time.
I freaking love how weird the 90s were.
@klausgh
3 жыл бұрын
I can't remember at what time they were.
@Q--_--90909
3 жыл бұрын
I was born in 2008.
@Q--_--90909
3 жыл бұрын
9 years after the last year of the 90's.
@Q--_--90909
3 жыл бұрын
1999
@wtfimcrying
3 жыл бұрын
@@Q--_--90909 ok
The phone number collection makes the most sense honestly. The person who thought it up probably was regarded as a marketing genius in their office.
why have i spent almost 13 minutes staring at a spinning rock
@hamidan7069
3 жыл бұрын
Cause it's fun
@everardcrowfoot6013
3 жыл бұрын
Iceberg
@pielovervi
3 жыл бұрын
Polygon
@cjwebdev
3 жыл бұрын
I had to turn away for a minute because I realized I was staring at the Iceberg, Polygon.
@b14ster
3 жыл бұрын
Well, we do live on a spinning rock
Never heard of this one, time to sit back and get educated
@catnium
4 жыл бұрын
education usually doesn't involve useless internet meme culture references. but sure , enjoy becoming dumber i guess.
@slashbat2375
4 жыл бұрын
@@catnium Wow, you must be a real riot in the comment sections of all those super genius videos that you watch, like this video that you're clearly watching. Go back to grade 6 English, kiddo.
@jimmynuts7474
4 жыл бұрын
@@catnium please tell me you didnt just call somebody dumb with a fucking my little pony avatar.
@andlu8601
4 жыл бұрын
@@catnium - my little pony avatar
@Yooooooo83
4 жыл бұрын
@@catnium education means learning something, useless or not. Like gender studies
I remember this and I was always under the impression it was meant to be a joke. If you get frustrated with your game, count to ten until you calm down.
I just called the number and an automated msg asked me to press 1 if I'm over 50 and press 2 if I'm not. I pressed 2 and the lady said "Thank you!" And hung up....
"Let's Take a Listen to His Impersonation" (ad plays) *"FRANKS* *RED* *HOT,* *I* *PUT* *THAT* *S###* *ON* *EVERYTHING*
@spoosh13x13x13
4 жыл бұрын
lol I got the same ad lol
@machine-shopbilly6584
4 жыл бұрын
Kek
@ncrtrooper2856
4 жыл бұрын
I got a BitLife ad lol
@jondecarbonel8158
4 жыл бұрын
😎👌 LMFAO!
@masterkitty
4 жыл бұрын
I got a Geico add lmao
“Let’s take a listen to this impersonation” “LET’S PLAY RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS”
@defundhollywood3259
4 жыл бұрын
Lmfao these ad comments almost make me wish I didn't have an ad-blocker 🤣🤣🤣
@analisapena3086
4 жыл бұрын
"WHY ARE YOU WEARING POLKA DOTS?? POLKA DOTS ARE OUT, POLKA SQUARES ARE IN."
@umers2122
4 жыл бұрын
UltraViolet it’s polka stars now
@lover7669
4 жыл бұрын
@@umers2122 Its polka dinosaurs now.
@kwq_space
4 жыл бұрын
@@lover7669 its polka atoms now.
Our local bank's time and temp phone number (remember those) became a kid's party line. Someone found out if you stayed on after the time and temp message, you were on with other callers. So of course kids from all over the county called and talked to each other. It was the forerunner of a chat room where you actually chatted verbally. 😂
@jesselore6374
8 ай бұрын
That's awesome. We used to sneak into the head masters office at lunch and use his phone to call random numbers in the U.S (from Australia) and chat to Americans.
@vickicali
8 ай бұрын
@@jesselore6374 That's awesome. Did they catch on once they saw the phone bill? 😂
Dang, I'm not familiar with the number but that telemarketer theory sounds pretty spot on to me. The 90's way of collecting data and selling it to other companies. Hope everyone watching this video is having a lovely night though. You're a huge inspiration to me and my little horror channel, much love 🤍🤍
I found this on a comments section in an article about the number: I can explain to you exactly what this was all about. Around 1995 my uncle who is Lebanese(not Indian) worked/volunteer for the PGA. At that time members of the PGA decided to pay for a hot line where you could call and receive golf tips from around a hundred PGA members that were attending the Tommy Armour Teaching and Coaching and Summit in New Orleans that year. The line was active but for about a week until the board received a massive bill for all the toll free calls made that week. No one wanted to pay the bill and it remained in dispute for years. Now the message you hear is my uncle testing the line when it was initially set up. At the time you had to record numerous prompts so you can direct the callers what numbers to press. Upon filling the dispute, the phone company removed all the prompts and deactivated the numbers you can press and it defaulted to his initial test recording. now the funny part. My Uncle originally lived in Canada, his credit and address was based in Canada and he was the one that volunteered to apply for the account. After the bill was disputed we realized that if you called the number on certain regions in Canada, you would hear him counting and if you didn’t hang up you’d hear a screech that was actually the original recording being rewound. The phone company on paper deemed the number out of service and paid no attention to the voicemail millions of people heard. Prior to the summit the PGA board talked numerous outlets in both Canada and the states to print the number for free as an upcoming promotion and that’s why the number was posted in many papers and even on some billboards. in 1996 people caught on about this and rumors began to spread. Many college newspapers printed the number in ominous looking adverts as pranks and it went on for several years until the number was sold to a bulk dialer that was previously a bulk 976 erotic for pay number. My Uncles name was Basem, there was nothing ominous about the number, it was an ongoing topic in our family for years and then forgotten about until someone sent me the link to this.”
@GrifoStelle
Жыл бұрын
Awesome
@BigRamifications
Жыл бұрын
@AdolfHitler-wo1mykzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5ttptaOotWul6g.html
@manjsher3094
Жыл бұрын
Actually I knew your uncle in 97, sorry but he's Indian someone has been lying in the family... Dost.
@MatzeFrenkie
Жыл бұрын
this comment should be pinned.
@daveyvandevelde9339
11 ай бұрын
Seems legit.
“It’s owned now by an erotic hotline. Just wanted to give you fair warning.” That ain’t a warning, that’s an advertisement. You even gave us the number to call after it. 🤣
@BigGirthyRod
4 жыл бұрын
That just makes me want to call it.
@savvh
4 жыл бұрын
@@BigGirthyRod do it. I double dog dare you >:)
@BigGirthyRod
4 жыл бұрын
breadiscool I called it and couldn’t get far because I’m under 18.
@savvh
4 жыл бұрын
@@BigGirthyRod damn. Sucks being a minor :(
@BigGirthyRod
4 жыл бұрын
breadiscool Yeah...
Subliminal hypnotization. Anyone who listened to that call and then hears the "code" again will be really good at golf
I was a teenager in the 90s but I don't remember this at all. It's definitely possible I heard about it but didn't make a lasting impression on me.
As a kid, I remember calling a "Santa Claus" hotline at christmas time. It was a flat rate call, where you got a new message from Santa each day leading up to Christmas. My parents let me call, and I remember staying on the line after the message ended for a few minutes. The line started beeping loudly, and then creepy recorded voices came on screaming "hang up the phone, hang up the phone!..." . They wanted to scare kids off the line, even if they put the phone down to free up the number for another caller.
@mattlogue1300
4 жыл бұрын
Creepy
@Terqul
3 жыл бұрын
o
@48917032
3 жыл бұрын
Come for Santa, stay for Robot Santa
@Xvladin
3 жыл бұрын
I remember santabot. Just a chatbot that talks to you as santa! He would somehow learn and change how he spoke, so there was a controversy where if you asked "Do you like pizza?" he'd say "Yes! I love eating pussy!". Very strange times
@user-qo9is7sh2i
3 жыл бұрын
@@Xvladin LMAO
I won't lie when the guy imitated the voice recording I laughed.
@lunarpanda7436
4 жыл бұрын
Georgia B come on, it was cute!!
@mooganify
4 жыл бұрын
He should have paused lol
@georgiab8631
4 жыл бұрын
@@lunarpanda7436 ahaha i agree but it did make me chuckle
@lunarpanda7436
4 жыл бұрын
Georgia B thats fair
@estebansteverincon7117
4 жыл бұрын
because it suspiciously _sounds_ very much like Barely Sociable. Hmmmmmm
There used to be so many fun pre recorded lines you could call. I don’t remember the name, but there was one for giving giving out as a wrong number if you didn’t want to give your real one to someone, and there was also one to give people that would tell them they had bad breath 😂 Those were from like 2007-2010 though, not the 90s.
I definitely think the last theory is more plausible. As it is, when you answer spam numbers nowadays, you'll end up with even more phonecalls so it'd make sense that before the age of random generated phone number algorithms, they'd come up with something more sneaky.
“They tore down the theater for a Tim Hortons” Oh Canada
@MsPaintMr
4 жыл бұрын
Our home and native land.
@1AstralKing
4 жыл бұрын
D’oh Canada.
@davethescrub858
4 жыл бұрын
@@MsPaintMr true patriot love!
@MsPaintMr
4 жыл бұрын
@@davethescrub858 In all t̶h̶y̶ ̶s̶o̶n̶s̶ of us command!
@berkleygentol5805
4 жыл бұрын
@@MsPaintMr I thought if the exact same fucking thing lol
"Siren" at the end was common from landline companies, once the call content was terminated. As it was a free phone number, the termination comes from the server side. The scream/beep/siren is to awake/alert "you've left the phone off the hook" which would prevent you from receiving other calls and which ties up exchange capacity. Really not a surprise
@gitcheljr
4 жыл бұрын
This sound was especially loud, probably so that you could hear it from relatively far away since you may have set the receiver down wrong, missing the buttons that actually disconnected you from the system, and wandered off. (Sorry if that sounded confusing. I didn’t realize how alien an old telephone might be to some readers until I had already started this.) This automatic off-hook sound was actually an improvement. In the olden times, when there was a human operator making the connection between the two callers, some poor lady (operators were almost always female - my mother was one in fact) had to scream as loud as she could “Hey, you left your phone off the hook! HANG UP YOUR PHONE!”
@gitcheljr
4 жыл бұрын
Jody Owen Knowing my Mom, she probably didn’t miss a thing. Though she likely only shared the best stuff with her friends, so yeah, relatively discrete :-) I was only a kid, actually, so I wasn’t involved in the phone-company-employee surveillance. We did, however, have a party-line for much of my childhood. This was an occasional source of entertainment, but was usually pretty boring. Of course, it became more significant the day I cut the end of my thumb off and the neighbors wouldn’t get off the line so we could call an ambulance. But we kept pressure on it and by the time the line was free, most of the bleeding had stopped. A few stitches and I was good as new.
@BigDogCountry
4 жыл бұрын
@@gitcheljr The Phone Cops! kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYiE3LaAYa_eZpM.html Funny how Johnny was right. Just cuz you're paranoid _doesn't_ mean they're not out to get you , and in 2019 we know they are.
“let’s listen to his imitation” *ONLYFANS AD PLAYS*
@mikejones8808
3 жыл бұрын
Threw yourself under the bus. Targeted ads
When I was a kid, the police used to call my house every time I misbehaved. They would tell my dad I was going to jail, but if I cried enough my dad would convince them to let me off again
@LooferMoofer
3 жыл бұрын
Wut
@cathytautu20
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@cfr06
3 жыл бұрын
lol
@ghettochicken8420
3 жыл бұрын
you mean your dads friend called him and pretended he was the police but u were a kid so it doesnt matter
@pbj4184
3 жыл бұрын
I saw you somewhere. I can't remember where. All I remember is that you're Indian. Right?
*When you're a 2000's kid*
@cat0x20
4 жыл бұрын
my man
@urosnestorov9546
4 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@Manster-gy9ly
4 жыл бұрын
Yep
@urosnestorov9546
4 жыл бұрын
@@Manster-gy9ly Oj
@f4fphantomii468
4 жыл бұрын
All above are virgins, 90's kids are the Go.
Let’s take a look at his impersonation Me: *Gets an ad for the new Motorola Razr*
@methcurry6887
4 жыл бұрын
3Dcubing no they don’t
@doggowin
4 жыл бұрын
They dont it like me no more
@doggowin
4 жыл бұрын
DodgerBoy 05 hello moto
@ScylenoMido
4 жыл бұрын
They don’t like me no mor-
@sunder530
4 жыл бұрын
Let's take a look at his impersonation "When I learned that smoking cost me over 3000 a year,"
I remember in the mid-to late 80's (don't know if it works now), that if you dialed from say, your phone in the kitchen 450-and then your last 4 #'s of your land lined own phone #, that it would ring the other phone/phones in the house and you could talk like a walkie talkie. Strange I know. A phone tech showed me that trick as a kid.
@anishnehete
3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@tony69em
3 жыл бұрын
I remember that too
@joegausch
3 жыл бұрын
I would use this to derail the girl I slept with the night before. I would call my #,pretend it was work,and tell her I got called in to work and had to leave. Worked every time!!!!!!
Sounds like if chills didn’t talk like a valley girl
@go-go3319
3 жыл бұрын
On point. Only reason why I won't watch his videos. Well made, but the valley girl thing, ugh
@win_ini
3 жыл бұрын
@@go-go3319 he cant control his voice.
@go-go3319
3 жыл бұрын
@@win_ini haha, yes he could. How do you think actors can pull off accents for different roles??
Let's take a look at his personal impersonation. Ad: *anime girl starts singing*
@Pigninjius
4 жыл бұрын
Seems accurate
@meowmaximum2838
4 жыл бұрын
I hate those ads with a passion.
@echomoon6858
4 жыл бұрын
if it actually was his impersonation I would get wet 😳
@karsonking7234
4 жыл бұрын
I had an ad about misconceptions of bearded men
@ghostyboiabandonedchannel
4 жыл бұрын
WHEEZE
In 2007 when I was in middle school, we used to call 1-800-papertowels and every time we asked if they sold paper towels they’d hang up on us.
@richtofen4888
4 жыл бұрын
A Bee Lmao
@BigDogCountry
4 жыл бұрын
Is your refrigerator running? You Better Catch It!
@norgepalm7315
4 жыл бұрын
That number is too long tho
@abee1624
4 жыл бұрын
water bear idk what to tell you, every time we dialed it somebody picked up
@uck7185
4 жыл бұрын
A Bee yeah it’s a real number, I called it sometime in the early to mid 2000s also. I just called it and they’re out of business
"I advise against calling" "It's home to an erotic hotline" So why're you advising against it? Sounds like a good time to me.
Just came across your KZread feed… Good stuff men keep it going… One of my favorite from the 80s is the story of the arcade game Polybius. Subbed
Much like how all roads lead to Rome, all defunct phone numbers lead to porn.
@ricbachman1727
4 жыл бұрын
I hope you know I'm good guy greg
@NKWTI
4 жыл бұрын
Are you requesting Roman porn?
@michaelmartin9022
4 жыл бұрын
Oddly defunct porn websites lead to pages of ads. Though maybe those ads are for other porn.
@Epck
4 жыл бұрын
There's a NES game and it's the same story
@chadhulse2591
4 жыл бұрын
Robert Sides pi
In the 1990s, somewhere in Jordan, my dad and his friends knew this mysterious phone number that you would call via payphone and would just repeat what you said in a deeper voice.
@wiredgamez9929
3 жыл бұрын
Lol 😭
@publiccrown2382
3 жыл бұрын
Holy shit.
@ivymarie346
3 жыл бұрын
Creeeeepy
@cy-bernet-ix
3 жыл бұрын
was it a different guy or just the callers voice deepened
@GeekRaj
3 жыл бұрын
Creepy!
The movie, Mercury Rising, was based on this phone number and it's reason of existence. The guy with the Uncle Sam Lutfi, yes, you'll see this name in the movie.
Wow, I remember seeing/hearing ads for this back in the day. I would always think, who the hell needs golf advice on the phone?
Clearly this was Tyler the creator time traveling to market golf brand
@regularbrandon6890
4 жыл бұрын
lolo27234 lol
@rrrednaxelaaa
4 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@methcurry6887
4 жыл бұрын
GOLFTIP - Newest Album by Tyler The Creator Stream on Spotify and Apple Music today!
@dreamishgames
4 жыл бұрын
lolo27234 yes please
@aceydoesmusic
4 жыл бұрын
golf wang
“...the theater has been torn down and been replaced with a Tim Hortons”. If that ain’t Canada 🇨🇦
@lepidotos
3 жыл бұрын
tim's is only 4th on the ranking of places canadians like to get coffee, lagging far behind mcdonald's
@thisgamerguy3414
3 жыл бұрын
@@lepidotos have you ever been to Canada
@lepidotos
3 жыл бұрын
@@thisgamerguy3414 once or twice, and in any case the internet exists so if someone were to, say, run a poll and publish the results online...
@imark7777777
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing it had to be at Tim Hortons it was Canada after all.
@tdotgang538
3 жыл бұрын
Before Burger King bought Tims everyone bought their coffee from there
This is definitely your best video. I think the creep factor is increased because its something from the 90s, a time we all look back on as a warm, fuzzy time when were were children/toddlers.
@DavidMcFarner
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the warning. I won’t watch any more of his videos. This is... the best?
I grew up in the late 80s, and 90s. I never heard of this
@aleksandram981
3 жыл бұрын
And now you’re old
@aleksandram981
3 жыл бұрын
Hehe just kidding
@Demortixx
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@fryloc359
3 жыл бұрын
Me neither. I do remember the "1-800-call-att" ads, and the one before that that was marketed heavily but didn't have enough digits to be a legit phone number.
@juggaklown1
3 жыл бұрын
@@aleksandram981 😲😲😲😲
“Let’s take a listen to his impersonation” (Ad plays) Do you have a nicotine addiction
@ineedanoriginalnamesogivei114
4 жыл бұрын
epic
@OtakuUnitedStudio
4 жыл бұрын
I got an over the top, hammy-sounding Hardee's biscuit ad.
@henri8042
4 жыл бұрын
I got a mobile game ad
@saturated9905
4 жыл бұрын
@Oudens RAID SHADOW LEGENDS-
@Subieghost
4 жыл бұрын
Yes lol
you're a big fan of that rotating DARK NET vector rock stock footage huh
@BrookeWinter82
4 жыл бұрын
lol
@vect0r858
4 жыл бұрын
Somebody say my name?
@Splatterbrain7
4 жыл бұрын
Vect0r85 r/beetlejuicing?
@Shablammo
4 жыл бұрын
I think its the logo for ethyrium (a cryptocurrency) used on the dark web along with bitcoin
@lacrisunny
4 жыл бұрын
*NICE*
There is an alternative hypothesis. Espionage. There used to be radio broadcasts that were just a list of numbers and were used to secretly communicate encrypted messages to spies without leaving traces. This could be a similar thing, and the pauses could be significant for the decryption. Although it does beg the question of why it was advertised on a billboard. Perhaps counter espionage or to intentionally make lots of people use it, so that individual spies couldn't be identified.
im a mid 80s baby so i was a kid in the 90s, me and my friends called our share of random 1800 numbers... if it spelt a word there was a 1800 number attached to it, sometimes they were just place holders in the hopes that someone would want that number and would buy it from the owner. IMO thats what this was, much like people buy websites today and then resell them when the URL becomes relevant to another entity.
Barely Sociable: Don't call this number because it's a sex line now Me: Don't threaten me with a good time
@entiro719
3 жыл бұрын
gg
I hope you know you're now forever trapped putting out content with this frequency and quality.
@BarelySociable
4 жыл бұрын
If you’ll watch I’m game
@dosvidanyagaming4123
4 жыл бұрын
@@BarelySociable mate, you're one of the few people I'll watch on mobile data as soon as a new video is released
@gohedbraun9242
4 жыл бұрын
His content really is special. From the delivery, voice and the visuals, he nails it every time. I just hope he doesn't start making top ten videos of over saturated content and rehashed videos!
@mustbemeech
4 жыл бұрын
Not many ppl understand what you’re saying lol
@yogzoth
4 жыл бұрын
@@mustbemeech 1k likes disagree.
I used to call it in 1993. It was looped. I never heard any scream or siren at the end. It might have been the loud phone-off-the-hook noise.
This number went from 1 800 GOLF-TIP to 1 800 JUST-THE-TIP
“1800 GOLFTIP” sounds like the name of an Odd Future mixtape.
@ALilUnhumane
3 жыл бұрын
When I saw 1 800 GOLFTIP I Immediately thought of Golf Wang and Odd Future lmao
@monke6912
3 жыл бұрын
Or scp
@touya
3 жыл бұрын
@@monke6912 no just OF
@defaultusername123
3 жыл бұрын
Just The Tip
@boarder6246
3 жыл бұрын
It would have to be an EP, because it’s just the tip
BRO I WORK AT THAT TIM HORTONS IN ST CATHARINES THIS IS EPIC
@peaceofmind9965
4 жыл бұрын
say hi to the Hudson family for me. Its that building with the big Giraffe on it
@bearpodspro4132
4 жыл бұрын
Can I grab a donut?
@romeocano1919
4 жыл бұрын
Nobody cares
@reillyparker1130
4 жыл бұрын
@@bearpodspro4132 go ahead
@reillyparker1130
4 жыл бұрын
@@romeocano1919 ok boomer
Apropos of nothing: 🌈imagine a world with NO billboards 🌈 I have NEVER made one choice based on what I saw on a billboard 🙄
I found this after two minutes of googling- I can explain to you exactly what this was all about. Around 1995 my uncle who is Lebanese(not Indian) worked/volunteer for the PGA. At that time members of the PGA decided to pay for a hot line where you could call and receive golf tips from around a hundred PGA members that were attending the Tommy Armour Teaching and Coaching and Summit in New Orleans that year. The line was active but for about a week until the board received a massive bill for all the toll free calls made that week. No one wanted to pay the bill and it remained in dispute for years. Now the message you hear is my uncle testing the line when it was initially set up. At the time you had to record numerous prompts so you can direct the callers what numbers to press. Upon filling the dispute, the phone company removed all the prompts and deactivated the numbers you can press and it defaulted to his initial test recording. now the funny part. My Uncle originally lived in Canada, his credit and address was based in Canada and he was the one that volunteered to apply for the account. After the bill was disputed we realized that if you called the number on certain regions in Canada, you would hear him counting and if you didn’t hang up you’d hear a screech that was actually the original recording being rewound. The phone company on paper deemed the number out of service and paid no attention to the voicemail millions of people heard. Prior to the summit the PGA board talked numerous outlets in both Canada and the states to print the number for free as an upcoming promotion and that’s why the number was posted in many papers and even on some billboards. in 1996 people caught on about this and rumors began to spread. Many college newspapers printed the number in ominous looking adverts as pranks and it went on for several years until the number was sold to a bulk dialer that was previously a bulk 976 erotic for pay number. My Uncles name was Basem, there was nothing ominous about the number, it was an ongoing topic in our family for years and then forgotten about. Claims someone called Sam Lutfi
“Remember to like, comment and smash that subscribe button!” Oh wait, you said none of those things but provided a pretty interesting video with quite a bit of effort put into it. Liked, commented and subscribed.
@Mjlovechild15
4 жыл бұрын
Yes love the gesture of creators making quality content being humbled and keeping it for the end lol everyone else pushes you n shiiiit
@crowmigration8245
4 жыл бұрын
But did you smash the button or press it gently?
@Dan-ih6ns
4 жыл бұрын
cms1999 I thought you typed “wash that subscribe button”
@m.rezarahmanlazuardi3950
4 жыл бұрын
copypasta of the year
@notofr
4 жыл бұрын
800th like let's go!!!!
“But now it’s owned by a erotic hotline” Me pick up phone: I’m just gonna check my missed calls real quick...
@Matt-ft6ox
4 жыл бұрын
Punk Rock Vixen 🤣
@BoneGoddess
4 жыл бұрын
Sir Toastly lol
@jakegold8283
4 жыл бұрын
Sir Toastly F in the chat bois
@BoneGoddess
4 жыл бұрын
Jake Gold F
@jokerraton8183
4 жыл бұрын
*calls number* *sitar music* "I LUB U BBY JIRL PLS GET NEKID"
I graduated high school in '95, and I don't remember this. At all. But I *do* remember the paper-clip-in-the-tiny-hole-of-the-pay-phone-and-mouthpiece-to-get-a-free-call trick. I also remember you could dial 958 and the last 4 digits of the phone you were on, wait for the dial tone, hang up, and scare the shit out of yourself and your friends when it rang.
its probably just counting swings before he hits a golf ball than makes a goal
The Count needed a side hustle when Sesame Street's economy took a down turn
@scottorgan2255
4 жыл бұрын
One ah ah ah two ah ah ah three ah ah ah
@somebody4217
4 жыл бұрын
Best comment!
@anthonynicholson5523
4 жыл бұрын
It became the reason our dismissal was evident. Mark my words. [[SibseDraft8ight.oo977]]
@BigDogCountry
4 жыл бұрын
Ha!
@Swim5
4 жыл бұрын
Anthony Nicholson what?
It’s home to an erotic hotline now? And it’s called Golf Tip? Oh boy.
@Dianaluvskpop
4 жыл бұрын
Killer Queen has already touched this KZread comment
@minekiddd7624
4 жыл бұрын
You gonna get the hands Kira?
@yournamegoeshere7584
4 жыл бұрын
oh boy indeed
@XPCREEPER
4 жыл бұрын
why oh boy? wtf is erotic about golftip
@Eric-Truong
4 жыл бұрын
XPCreeper ppl can use it without getting caught lol, maybe people who golf.
Barely Sociable, you’re ridiculously intelligent & talented. Good shit, man.
Watch it actually be a giant troll and he/ she is just sitting the, nearly 30 years later, watching this video with a little chuckle.
“Uh hello hello?”
@puffpufferfish
4 жыл бұрын
WOOD MINER lmao
@thunnn6738
3 жыл бұрын
"Ummm I wanted to record a message for you"
@BrkfstBURRIT
3 жыл бұрын
LOL
@pennyandsuch
3 жыл бұрын
"..to help you get settled in on your first night."
@thunnn6738
3 жыл бұрын
"Um I actually worked In that office before you."
“An erotic number” *calls number* Me: hello? High pitched voice: Hi welcome to chili’s
@edwood6015
4 жыл бұрын
Pete's Pizzeria and abortion clinic, where yesterdays loss is todays sauce. Get a large plane pizza for 911.
@wise-grandmadoge8396
4 жыл бұрын
Edwood no doubt best reply ive ever heard xD
@Green-Rainbow
4 жыл бұрын
Confession, I’ve never been to a chili’s
@Green-Rainbow
4 жыл бұрын
Teenz Cool
@wise-grandmadoge8396
4 жыл бұрын
Green Rainbow me neither i just remembered the video in that instant lol
We had a landline phone in the 90s and we kept playing it as kids. I still remember talking to strangers on a "crossline" and "partyline" traffic. Fortunately all the conversations I had with adults were wholesome and I never came across weirdos. There was also a phone number back then and they said it led to a haunted house or a nonexistent place inhabited by ghosts. At daytime it doesn't work it comes off with a Busy tone or Not In Service tone but if you call starting around 12 midnight a ghostly voice answers and some say if you linger long enough it will mention the address were you live. They said it works and some ghostly voice answers the phone. I dialed it in the afternoon instead. The first tries was a busy tone as expected the last try I just heard someone picked up the phone but did not say anything seems like waiting for me to say Hello first and all I can hear was this old time music in the background. I immediately put the phone down and never called again.
I just found your channel today and I have watched every single of your videos, wish there was more but its the best quality I have ever seen. Definitely was surprised that your videos were so interesting because I didnt see most of those topics in any other channel that I have watched. Very original.
"Let's listen to his impersonation" Ad: *WELCOME TO SWORDS AND LEGENDS*
@corey3668
4 жыл бұрын
Peasants
@zliq6226
4 жыл бұрын
Time stamp?
@litatasha24
4 жыл бұрын
CodeBlox 4:55
@jeyy_beyy
4 жыл бұрын
C D E F E H I JK LMNOP Q R S T U V W X Y Z
@kingofmemes5147
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
“Let’s listen to his impersonation” ad: *french colgate ad plays*
@kingofmemes5147
4 жыл бұрын
😊😄😂🤣😅😄😀
@mikestarr6204
4 жыл бұрын
@@kingofmemes5147 that's hilarious!! 🤣
@kingofmemes5147
4 жыл бұрын
mike starr The emoji,s?
@illestvillain1971
3 жыл бұрын
I don't have ads cause I have KZread Vanced. (:
@croquemaster314
3 жыл бұрын
@@illestvillain1971 ok
Thanks, a 12 minute video that doesn’t explain crap.
@WyWid
3 жыл бұрын
Still pretty interesting
@mmmyeahh
3 жыл бұрын
Well its because nobody knows whats going on. Imagine all mysteries were solved? And you knew the answers to everything? How fun would that be... the unknown is so... exciting... scary...... eerie... . .
Now *this* is something that only 90’s kids will remember
@KristinkaAranova
3 жыл бұрын
I fucking remember
the 90's called, they want their phone number back
@diamond_3716
4 жыл бұрын
HOw did they call with out the phone number?!?!?
@funy0n583
4 жыл бұрын
@@diamond_3716 O: MYSTERY
@skoutthebeast115
4 жыл бұрын
All I'm thinking about is regular show
@averyvaldez1371
4 жыл бұрын
s saaame
@Mega_Mikey
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah well the jerk store called, and they’re running out of YOU
Your videos are very pleasant to watch. Keep making this great content
Why don’t they contact the people who own the billboard and ask them if they can see their sales record and then from their they should look up who bought a rented that billboard for that ad. Simple
@hughg.rection1724
3 жыл бұрын
@spirals 73 yeah They probably have files of all their sales, they have to record these in order to complete their taxes.
“The numbers, Mason! What do they mean?”
@jackkoscak8501
4 жыл бұрын
Only true gamers will get this reference.
@CptPrice-qr6ng
4 жыл бұрын
@@jackkoscak8501 "Castro, we went in to kill Castro"
@ASHASHGaming
4 жыл бұрын
LMFAO
@pineapplepizza7661
4 жыл бұрын
Resnov... Where’s resnov?
@OefOui
4 жыл бұрын
My Name is Viktorv Resnov!
Good thing we bigfoots didn't even start using phones until like 15 years ago
@noahjohnson4211
4 жыл бұрын
You comment on like every single video I watch. I cannot tell if we just have exactly the same interest. Or there are multiple accounts with this name.
@a_donut
4 жыл бұрын
Noah Johnson It’s a bigfoot, always hiding in plain sight. Just now, we’re beginning to notice
@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
4 жыл бұрын
@@noahjohnson4211 Nah, I'm the only one of me. I've just currently got a lot of free time to comment 'everywhere'
@Upper_echelon_exotics
4 жыл бұрын
I just saw you somewhere else too...
@alexisrodriguez1711
4 жыл бұрын
@D Zuke joe momma
I'm from Windsor Ontario and born in 79. I totally remember 1800 golf tip from the 90s! I forgot all about it until seeing this video! Crazy!
Never even heard of it. But I agree with your idea on the marketing tactic, or a combo marketing/social experiment tactic, to not only gather numbers to sell later, but to see how fast word of mouth actually can be. Also, the demographic of age groups and perhaps whether there were more males or females calling the number. How many times did any given number call vs one-shot callers who couldn't care less about it. Maybe the theater was part of it, since folks likely said the number was on the billboard across from the Bijou/Lincoln theater, thus part of the word of mouth advertising.
spoiler: unless you lived in a very specific part of canada in the 90's (and by specific i mean a tiny town ive never heard of in my life) this will mean nothing to you.
@billtooke6642
4 жыл бұрын
St Catharines is about 130,000 people. It's in-between Niagara Falls & Hamilton, about 65 miles from Toronto. I've been there several times
@CrazyBear65
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that. Now I don't feel strange about wondering what the fuck this was about.
@viviennelee2215
4 жыл бұрын
*lives in specific town* born a little to late to remember this
@bigbruhmento7731
4 жыл бұрын
ok
@lils991
4 жыл бұрын
nobby styles i was your 420 like 😌
The frequency of these videos coupled with the quality puts you up notches above so many channels. Just keep doing what you're doing!
@overseas4228
4 жыл бұрын
th3highwayman mr piiiiiiink
@th3highwayman
4 жыл бұрын
@@overseas4228 mista pink
I was an 80's kid, finished high school in the 90's. Never heard of this. This was certainly not a thing in Northern California.
@flux.aeterna
3 жыл бұрын
Had more exciting things going on than Canada I’d bet
so odd to watch this randomly this morning and to see a street 5 mins away from you, not much happens in st. catharines. this is cool
"If you don't [remember calling 1(800)GOLF-TIP], you're a fraud!" *Sad gen-z noises*
@jermainerace4156
3 жыл бұрын
I wasn't allow to use the phone wihtout permission in 1993 :(
@FeenieVonKarma
3 жыл бұрын
I could have done it, but I'm from the UK so.. yeah. I DID get into trouble for calling adult hotlines though LMAO..... I can't have been much more than 13 or something. fuckin whoops.
@soulmata
3 жыл бұрын
I'm an older millennial who was also an early adopter of the Internet and everything tech, and was in high school in the mid-late 90s. I'd literally never heard of this number, ever, until this video came out.
@myrecreationalchannel7181
3 жыл бұрын
@@soulmata I'm in your same age group and I never heard of it until now either.
@theautisticartist9370
3 жыл бұрын
Well he did say it was obscure.
"The call is coming from inside the 90's!!!"
@Anarchic1989
4 жыл бұрын
This video gives you a feeling of "Deja Vu"
@ilikemyrealname
4 жыл бұрын
When a Stranger Calls reference. Nice!
@woottastic
4 жыл бұрын
Rice Worker i have been to this place before
@Anarchic1989
4 жыл бұрын
@@woottastic Higher on the streets
I love learning new things. I had never heard of this. Awesome! Thank you 🙏
I was born '82 so I was kid/teenager in the 90's . I have never heard of this phone number until watching this video.