[lee3]

Aug 7, 2008 18:45:03 GMT 1 @doublehelix said:

Aug 7, 2008 18:22:15 GMT 1 eddiedangerous said:

i heard the print was after a relationship had split up and on the barcode is her phone number with the Leopard happy to have broken free!!

314 - Missouri Area Code?

ha ha- that's great. Something tells me that in '01/02 when the image was developed that Banksy was not telephoning a chick (or dude, who am i to judge?) from St. Louis. If the rumor is based in fact, i would presume that 314 is the UK code.

[meatbag]

wow, this guy sounds like a real shitbag

[dkla]

I believe the message behind the barcode artworks is a smart comment on the victimization of animals for human profit (zoos, fashion, trophies, etc...).

[stillborncrisps]

Aug 7, 2008 18:22:15 GMT 1 eddiedangerous said:

i heard the print was after a relationship had split up and on the barcode is her phone number with the Leopard happy to have broken free!!

Hmmm... curious.

The numbers in the Leopard Barcode [31454 31762] don't appear to be any sort of UK or mobile number.

You'd need to put an 01 or an 07 in front to make it a real number, and then there would be too many digits in the number.

I thought perhaps they could be two dates/date of births, but of course there is no 31st April 1954.


However, the Shark Barcode [0 95417 04-0-7] would work as a phone number if you put a 1 or 7 where the barcode lines intrude into the number sequence (after the first 0):
07954 170407 or
01954 170407 (Cambridge number)

Who's gonna try them out?? ;-)


Also, just found this Banksy record sleeve of a Sinking Tank, which contains another barcode:



The number is 5 016557 971668 - again, too many digits to be a phone number.

What does it all mean???!

[lee3]

>>>What does it all mean???! <<<<

More than half the fun with great art, at least for me intellectually, is trying to figure these things out for myself.

[buffin]

Aug 7, 2008 19:36:31 GMT 1 stillborncrisps said:

Aug 7, 2008 18:22:15 GMT 1 eddiedangerous said:

i heard the print was after a relationship had split up and on the barcode is her phone number with the Leopard happy to have broken free!!

Hmmm... curious.

The numbers in the Leopard Barcode 31454 31762 don't appear to be any sort of UK or mobile number.

You'd need to put an 01 or an 07 in front to make it a real number, and then there would be too many digits in the number.

I thought perhaps they could be two dates/date of births, but of course there is no 31st April 1954.

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Replace the 3 with a zero and you have the STD code for Chipping Sodbury (just outside Bristol).

[stillborncrisps]

Aug 7, 2008 21:11:47 GMT 1 buffin said:

Replace the 3 with a zero and you have the STD code for Chipping Sodbury (just outside Bristol).

Yeah, but that doesn't leave enough digits to make a real number....


I really like the idea of the 'breaking free from a relationship' theory... maybe the set of 5 digits on the right, beneath the bent bars, represents Banksy in some way - and the set on the left represent the ex-girlfriend?

I'm starting to feel like a conspiracy theorist.

[doublehelix]

It's a US mobile number I think.

[Guest]

if you add all these numbers up what do you get 31454 31762

its pretty obvious isnt it?


















36

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Aug 8, 2008 0:03:19 GMT 1 @ronhill said:

if you add all these numbers up what do you get 31454 31762

its pretty obvious isnt it?


36

Yes Ronhill and if you add those up you get 36 and double it to 72 and thats my age on my next birthday!... am i Banksy then? or Robert Cunningham?, i dont know what all this means really, is it a numbers thing?.
Edit: I see now, but who is this Cunningham chap?.

[Guest]

Robert Cunningham? you could well be

[Deleted]

Aug 8, 2008 0:18:32 GMT 1 @ronhill said:

Robert Cunningham? you could well be

Its Robin Gunningham isnt it! my mistake.

[Guest]

who knows, I thought 42 was the number to the universe, and 665 was the neighbor of the beast!

[Bram]

Aug 8, 2008 0:34:03 GMT 1 @ronhill said:

who knows, I thought 42 was the number to the universe, and 665 was the neighbor of the beast!

and heinz has 57 varieties

[Guest]

Aug 8, 2008 0:12:15 GMT 1 @wizbong said:

Aug 8, 2008 0:03:19 GMT 1 @ronhill said:

if you add all these numbers up what do you get 31454 31762

its pretty obvious isnt it?


36

Yes Ronhill and if you add those up you get 36 and double it to 72 and thats my age on my next birthday!... am i Banksy then? or Robert Cunningham?, i dont know what all this means really, is it a numbers thing?.
Edit: I see now, but who is this Cunningham chap?.

I just check your age on your profile says your 47 ;D

[Deleted]

I know, i got it wrong when i joined here, i did say later and someone said to ask Silky to change it, anyhow Silky said not to bother as it would mean re joining and the age thing cant be changed! so i left it.
Have pmd proof.

[Guest]

wizbong you are a Legend.