Anyone who has a Penn State University degree and lived on main campus has called 867-5309 and asked for "Jenny" - at least before area codes became mandatory. For those who have dialed 1-900-MIXALOT to "kick them nasty thoughts," this takes it a step further. Verizon reassigned Sir Mix-A-Lot's (née Anthony Ray) actual phone number in 2012 and gave it to this guy: Jonathan Nichols, a 33 year old law student at Seattle University who was preparing for his upcoming Seattle job search, according to Uproxx.
Nichols said he didn't think too much of a text linking to a YouTube demo, according to The Seattle Times, and he politely told the sender he had the wrong number. When Ferrari, Jaguar and Lamborghini dealers left messages asking if he was interested in a test drive, Nichols responded: "I'd love to, but I think you have the wrong guy. I'm a broke law student."
Then, on Aug. 12 - Mix's birthday - the phone took on a life of it's own, "blowing up off the hook." Sexy photos, duck lips, photos of bottles of Big Bottom Whiskey and a reference to the ode to plump posteriors finally made it click for Nichols. He had the OG of big booties' old phone number, according to Mental Floss.
"Don't check any text messages in front of your wife," the Shakespeare of fat bottom sonnets advised Nichols via Seattle columnist Nicole Brodeur. "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."
Sage advice.
The bonus for the recent grad looking for a job in Seattle? "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,'" Nichols told The Seattle Times. "It's a total mic drop."
"Tell him any really sexy pictures - little in the middle, and if she's got much back - give them the new number," Sir Mix-A-Lot told Brodeur with a laugh. "But not the car dealerships."
For Mix's newest single, check out his official webpage.
For those who want to live in 1992, check out the NSFW (and scandalous-for-it's-time) video below.
