Trivia hunt!

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So we're watching South Park tonight, when gingko asks... "Where's zip code 10465? Harlem by any chance?" Turns out she's right. When I asked what brought that up, she mentioned that it's Chef's house number on South Park.

I'd noticed that the house numbers were... big... for a small town, but I never realized they were (almost) all five digits. (Butters' house is 1020.)

I've been looking for a list of the house numbers online, but haven't been able to... anyone?

Comments

[kimokeane.livejournal.com]

In Colorado, or at least in Denver specifically, you get a lot of house numbers like you see in SP, i.e. in the format "##-##,###". It's some kind of custom in that area, but I don't know it's origin.

I never tried to take the last 5 and make them Zip codes...

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Street numbers are often based from the nearest large city. There are plenty of 5-digit house numbers in Fall City, mostly on streets that run E-W. N-S streets are more likely to have 4-digit addresses, as Fall City is much further east of Seattle than it is north thereof.

So you don't have to feel bad that your wife is cleverer than you--you just subconsciously knew more about the way the world is arranged, so your curiosity wasn't triggered by the apparent aberration, because it really wasn't one. Snrk. (Sorry, I _almost_ made it through that with a straight face.)