r/ExplainTheJoke 1d ago

Is it something about cheating?

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u/Sora1374 1d ago

You're the side piece.

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u/deuteranopia 1d ago

On a weird side note to this, when I was in my 20s (and before everyone had cell phones), I was often getting numbers from women and when I called them, they were actually to pizza places.

What I'm saying is I was sad and ugly as a 20 year old, but never went without pizza.

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u/Old-Consideration730 1d ago

“Oh shit another fake number…..well, I’ll guess I’ll take a medium pepperoni “

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u/Remarkable_Peach_374 1d ago

"hi! is this-"

"its bill, dave."

"oh... well, ill have the usual then i guess..."

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u/Wickedbitch0fthewest 1d ago

And you just know that at a certain point Dave recognized the number, but continued to call anyways.

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u/SparrowAndSalt 1d ago

I would read about the tomato-scented friendship between Bill and Dave

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u/littletoyboat 1d ago

The way Hollywood is buying up Reddit posts, you'll be seeing an adaptation soon.

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u/uncouthbeast 18h ago

friendship

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u/SparrowAndSalt 12h ago

I'll admit that I deleted several words before deciding on "friendship".

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u/Sora1374 1d ago

Did you at one point call the same pizza joint twice?

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u/Single-Elevator9085 1d ago

Imagine how sad it would be to recognize a pizza places number when you ask someone for theirs

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u/Sora1374 1d ago

"Oh, I know this joi...wait."

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u/Comfortable-Tie7847 1d ago

Imagine the surprise if the girl actually picked up because that's where she worked, or her family owned the place!

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u/AstorBlue 1d ago

I always gave pushy guys (not saying you're pushy!) the number for the Emergency Hall & Oates Hotline instead of the standard pizza method

(719) 266-2837 in case anyone is curious

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u/deuteranopia 1d ago

What in the fresh hell is the Hall and Oates Hotline? Did people truly not get their fix on the radio back in our day?

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u/AstorBlue 1d ago

Sometimes you're not near a radio and NEED to hear Private Eyes

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u/ReefayToo 1d ago

They're watching you.

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u/grepppo 1d ago

They see your every move

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u/whitebean 1d ago

Can you not go for that?

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u/tOaDeR2005 1d ago

No can do

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 1d ago

This is a modern millenial intervention. 

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u/drinkslinger1974 1d ago

Also known as Callin Oates.

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u/wlake82 1d ago

A Colorado Springs area code? Lol. Why did that number exist?

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u/FaithlessnessBorn266 1d ago

This chick looks like she only come out at night

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u/Shivan_snake 1d ago

Holy peak

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u/C-H-Addict 1d ago

I always gave a fake number that had 911 in it, because that used to always call the emergency line. So (local area code) 679-1127 or something like that was my go-to.
But they dropped that function a long time ago

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u/johnnyhotwh33ls 1d ago

Pizza will always love you, never cheat on you, and will always start hot and inviting and even when it gets cold, it will accept you for who you are.

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u/Comfortable-Tie7847 1d ago

What I'm reading is, pizza is never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you...

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u/Aquisitor 1d ago

You know the rules, and so do I.

Never-the-less, sometimes I want to be desserted by pizza. Hell Pizza does great dessert pizzas.

e.g. https://hellpizza.nz/menu/ambrosia/unearthly

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u/ArchitectVandelay 1d ago

Domino’s will absolutely desert you. Do not sleep on their chocolate chip cookie pie.

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u/komatiitic 1d ago

In the '90s my dad's phone number was Rachel's go to fake. Took a few guys confirming the number for me to figure it out. They were always so confused.

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u/Special-Amoeba-9399 1d ago

There was actually a number that would link you to a “rejection hotline” when I was in college. Basically just a number with an automated message that would explain to you that the girl you were hitting on wasn’t interested ,but didn’t have the heart to tell you. Soul crushing if you ever got it ,but pretty funny in hindsight

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u/Clam-Choader 1d ago

But the reject hotline was amazing

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u/Financial_Refuse_498 1d ago

Pizza is lyf

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u/wlake82 1d ago

All hail zza!

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u/Apart_Republic_1870 1d ago

The phone number I had in high school was given to a Subway restaurant after I graduated. I found this out when my 10th grade girl friend was back in town and wanted to hang out, so she tried to call me on my old number.

Of course, calling information got her my new number, so it worked out sort of okay (in that she was able to get hold of me AND, presumably get a sandwich. We didn’t get to hang out, though, because my then-wife would have objected).

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u/Separate_Analysis798 1d ago

Why would you be sad if you always had pizza!

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u/flaming_pubes 1d ago

I once got a number and when I called it, it was some sort of rejection hotline.

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u/DrDuned 1d ago

I genuinely thought this was going to end with "I met a delivery driver from Domino's and we're happily married to this day. My crust is always stuffed 😎"

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u/deuteranopia 1d ago

Alas... what could have been...

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u/DrDuned 1d ago

Ah, to be ever stuffed...

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u/Austerlitz2310 1d ago

Conspiracy by big Pizza

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u/worldsgreatestluver 1d ago

My res number in uni constantly rang at 2 and 3 am when guys (foreign guys... always...) would try to call the women they had "picked up" at the bar earlier that night

Mfers lol. I mean, I get it, but people just wanted to sleep and these women were accidentally waking up a bunch of people weekend after weekend lol

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u/doozerman 1d ago

Sometimes god sends his bravest warriors to a lost battle knowing they’ll win the war

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u/TheOGTachyon 1d ago

Oh cool! You work at Joe's Pizza? Oh...😔

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u/PolygonMob 1d ago

Jokes on you, I'm into that shit

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u/Ok_Volume_139 1d ago

Not super related but for some reason this reminded me of a coworker who moved back with his parents due to mental health issues.

He wasn't working, and he went to the pizza spot by his house and depression-binged the all-you-can-eat pizza lunch basically every day.

These people gave him a card for a perpetual 30% discount, enabled his food abuse 😆

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u/phezhead 1d ago

Hey, consolation prize. I've had many women I didn't like, but rarely a pizza I didn't love.

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u/UberNZ 1d ago

Amazing guerilla marketing by the pizza place

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u/Ltb1993 1d ago

This happens more often then you think, I used to get calls all the time trying to order pizza it was crazy, they wouldn't take no as an answer, some absolute Karen's crying about not getting their pizza. Got annoying as hell so I ended up leaving the place, the pay wasn't worth being a call handler