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Verizon Assigned Sir Mix-A-Lot's Old Phone Number To This Lawyer... Hijinks Ensue

Two things should strike you about this story: first, Verizon can do absolutely nothing right, and second, the famed 'Baby Got Back' singer's number was not, in fact, 1-900-Mix-A-Lot.

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Sir-Mix-a-Lot2When attorney Jonathan Nichols, 33, was still at Seattle University Law, he went in for a local Seattle number and got the digits of Seattle’s most famous ass aficionado, the legendary Sir Mix-A-Lot. Two things should strike you about this story. First, Verizon can do absolutely nothing right. Second, the famed ‘Baby Got Back’ singer’s number was not, in fact, 1-900-Mix-A-Lot.

Only the second revelation should surprise.

At first, Nichols just rolled with the wrong-number calls about borrowing high-end cars and the texts of bikini-clad women. But when Sir Mix-A-Lot’s birthday came around and his phone blew up with well-wishers, he started to figure out just what had happened. One voicemail he has saved really drove the point home:

“This used to be Sir Mix-A-Lot,” a woman says with a smile in her voice. “You get someone calling you talking about they be Snoop Dogg, they really are. Lucky you.”

While a weaker person might have gone back to Verizon and gotten a new number (or argued with those thick-headed troglodytes trying to get one at least), Nichols decided to own it:

“When interviewers have asked me, ‘What’s something interesting that no one else knows?’ or when people I meet working political campaigns tell me about meeting Bill Clinton, I always say, ‘I have Sir Mix-A-Lot’s old phone number.’

Lesson for the interviewees from someone who had to talk to you lot: this is much more interesting than your model train set. Go out and get Right Said Fred’s old phone before on-campus interview season.

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When the Seattle Times reached Mix-A-Lot for comment, he offered some advice for Nichols:

“Don’t check any text messages in front of your wife,” Mix advised. “That would be the first thing. And don’t answer any texts by saying ‘Yes,’ because people take ‘Yes’ differently with me. And usually you end up opening your wallet.”

Like with the car dealerships.

“That’s why I’m telling him, ‘Don’t say yes.’ ”

Probably sound advice since Nichols is a public-interest attorney with Moriarty and Associates and likely doesn’t plan on buying a Lamborghini any time soon — unless he wins tonight’s Powerball at least.

And one other thing:

“Tell him any really sexy pictures — little in the middle, and if she’s got much back — give them the new number,” Mix said with a laugh….

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That’s a little presumptuous, Mix-A-Lot. You can’t go around automatically assuming Nichols’s anaconda don’t want none.

Verizon gave this guy Sir Mix-A-Lot’s old phone number — and now he gets his raunchy texts [Seattle Times]

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