What the heck is "636"?

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<p>What the heck is “636” ? I see it as the tag end of screennames. At the bottom of some posters every post. I admit to be woefully disconnected to the modern world , but …what does it mean? </p>

<p>Something religious? Kawasaki’s new middleweight sportbike? Some symbol I can’t see because it needs to be inverted and then read through a lava lamp?</p>

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<p>That’s something I’ve been wondering, too. I googled it, and all I could come up with is that it’s the area code for Missouri.</p>

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<p>Thank you for asking this! I’ve been wondering the same thing.</p>

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<p>I did a search and looked at 3 threads, and each time it was the same guy who signed his posts with “636”. His screenname also had 636 at the end; perhaps it is just a signature? Like “Good luck…Mudge” or “Hope that helps…NSM”? I also wiki’ed it (searched it on Wikipedia) and looked it up on Urban Dictionary. Neither returned anything significant. My guess is that it is a personal thing.</p>

<p>P.S. 0789</p>

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<p>I like it.</p>

<p>DRJ … 4</p>

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<p>I am so disconnected with my generation as a whole. This MTV generation does very weird things. I wish I was born sooner, or later. Hopefully the next generation doesn’t degenerate any further than we have.</p>

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Heck, I just hope I don’t degenerate any FASTER than I have . </p>

<p>I think it’s more than one poster but I could be wrong.</p>

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<p>A quick search on CC reveals the following ‘636’ posters:</p>

<p>THXZPI636
momoney636
razberi636</p>

<p>I’m guessing that 636 is the area code for a suburb in St Louis, Missouri. Which is the first result in Google. I’m thinking this is just a harmless way to make one’s tag unique, like adding a suffix which is your birthdate</p>

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<p>I asked my gamer-and-clued-in-online-guy who’s 16-almost-17 and he confirms that it’s nothing significant he’s ever heard of, and suggested it was “just some numbers that have a cool sound”. (I hadn’t thought they had a “cool sound” but there you are.)</p>

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<p>I have no idea what this signifies.</p>

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<p>Seems to be THXZI’s sign-off. Silly me, at first I thought it was just a typo when he responded to something I posted. I thought he hit “636” instead of “626”. Mine, of course, has some mysterious, nefarious significance of which I will keep you all in suspense… Or, it could be my b’day…</p>

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<p>jym626: The first time I saw your SN, I thought of our old Mazda 626. Since then, you’ve been in my head as a blue sedan with a carseat in the back.</p>

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<p>LOL Maize&Blue!!
I have many times felt like I’ve been taken for a ride… so this image seems appropriate.</p>

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<p>636 - the neighbor of the Beast?</p>

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<p>Dadguy-
I haven’t had my weekend cup of coffee yet. can you explain?</p>

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<p>636 being the neighbor. ;]</p>

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<p>I was going with the connection to 666 , myself as my WAG had I had to make one. Sign of the beast. Sign of the beast’s little brother Dougie?</p>

<p>Then I was thinking of the relationship the numbers had to each (whole/half/whole, 2<em>1</em>2) and that hurt my head. </p>

<p>From the warped mind of Beavis or was it Butthead ? - “he,he,he. I hate numbers. There’s too many of them.” (It still makes me chuckle like an idiot. Please forgive me. I really am a simple person. I don’t just play one on CC.;))</p>

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<p>LOL, I just found out what POS meant! The only numerical internet lingo I know is 420, from the HS kids themselves</p>

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<p>What does POS mean?</p>

<p>Since when is 420 internet lingo? 0.0 … and what does it mean as internet lingo?</p>

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<p>POS = Parent Over Shoulder. Used in IMs, quick short-hand for “can’t talk now, my mom’s here, don’t say anything more”.</p>