Beep Me 911

[nq:1]What does Missy Elliott mean when she says "Beep Me 911"? Is it possible for someone to beep me 911 if I want them to?[/nq]
Never heard the song, but perhaps she's using "beep" as others use "dial" or "touch."
[nq:1]Comments?[/nq]
Who is Missy Elliott, and why couldn't you have posted a line or two of the song?

Liebs
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[nq:1]What does Missy Elliott mean when she says "Beep Me 911"? Is it possible for someone to beep me 911 if I want them to?[/nq]
If you leave it unzipped, yeah.

john

[nq:1]What does Missy Elliott mean when she says "Beep Me 911"? Is it possible for someone to beep me 911 if I want them to?[/nq]
When you call someone on their beeper, you are given the opportunity to dial in a number that will appear on the recipient's beeper display. You could beep someone and then dial in 911 for display on their beeper. People with beepers frequently have understandings w

[nq:2]What does Missy Elliott mean when she says "Beep Me 911"? Is it possible for someone to beep me 911 if I want them to?[/nq]
[nq:1]Never heard the song, but perhaps she's using "beep" as others use "dial" or "touch."[/nq]
Nope. "To beep" is to call someone's numeric pager number and to dial in a number that appears on the pager display.

Mike Nitabach

[nq:2]Never heard the song, but perhaps she's using "beep" as others use "dial" or "touch."[/nq]
[nq:1]Nope. "To beep" is to call someone's numeric pager number and to dial in a number that appears on the pager display.[/nq]
Apparently there is a some tradition of using "911" as a pager or text code meaning "help, urgent, emergency." From "Da Flip Side ... a hardcore look at the street lif

[nq:1]I suppose I need to spell out for an international audience that "911" has long been the US telephone number ... was noticed very quickly. I think the phone number used to always be said "nine one one," though, didn't it?[/nq]
Still is, as far as I know.
"Nine one one" = emergency service
"Nine eleven" = the common reference for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Penta

Maria Conlon wrote on 21 Apr 2004:
[nq:1]How did we ever get by without cordless phones, cell phones, pagers, call waiting, caller ID, answering machines, voice mail, "press one for the directory," 3-way calling, mute, and redial? Could we get by without them now?[/nq]
No trouble at all, as long as we have email and faxes.
Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
For email, ehziuh ht

[nq:1]I suppose I need to spell out for an international audience that "911" has long been the US telephone number ... was noticed very quickly. I think the phone number used to always be said "nine one one," though, didn't it?[/nq]
That was and is the majority usage. But "nine eleven" was occasionally heard. I remember a guy on the radio (this was back in the early 1990s) talking about how he

Donna Richoux:
[nq:2]I suppose I need to spell out ... that "911" ... to always be said "nine one one," though, didn't it?[/nq]
Richard Fontana:
[nq:1]That was and is the majority usage. But "nine eleven" was occasionally heard.[/nq]
And hence the practice in some quarters of spelling it "9-1-1", in case some caller who uses that pronunciation is stymied by the absence of an "11" b

[nq:1]Donna Richoux: Richard Fontana:[/nq]
[nq:2]That was and is the majority usage. But "nine eleven" was occasionally heard.[/nq]
[nq:1]And hence the practice in some quarters of spelling it "9-1-1", in case some caller who uses that pronunciation is stymied by the absence of an "11" button.[/nq]
Homer Simpson: What's the number for 911?