RiffRaff asks:
>(newbie alert)
>Could someone please fill me in on how this numerical code works?
>I keep seeing '501', '912', '55500', etc., but i'm clueless...   

501 and 912 are Area Codes. These are what you dial on the phone
to make a long distance call to Arkansas or Savannah, Georgia
respectively. 55500, on the other hand is what is called a Zip
Code. In the days before e-mail this is what people used to
write on envelopes to help the Post Office sort mail to the
right place - a sort of primitive IP address. This one is somewhere
in Minnesota. None of these have anything to do with juggling.

There is a running joke here in rec.juggling (which unfortunately
has made its way into the FAQ) in which seasoned posters attempt
to persuade newbies that certain classes of juggling patterns
can be represented by numerical strings, and they go on to discuss
the 'tricks' that they have just learned. This is of course 
nonsense, as you will soon discover if you attempt to follow
any of the 'explanations' of this system. Personally I think that
jokes of this sort are in very bad taste. Clowns like Boppo and
'Mister' Frog should stick to face painting, and leave rec.juggling
to the serious jugglers.

Andrew
conway@bdt.com

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