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Man with Sir Mix-A-Lot's old phone number gets endless butt-related texts

by Jeremy Mersereau

January 12, 2016

"Dial 1-900-MIXALOT, and shake that healthy -" "What?"

After 33-year-old law student Jonathan Nichols paid a visit to Verizon and switched his old cellphone number to a local Seattle number, it wasn’t long before he started getting inundated with bizarre texts and calls from unknown numbers about promotional appearances, free test drives at luxury car dealerships, and a healthy amount of .jpeg attachments of women with robust posteriors.

Turns out Verizon had provided Nichols with early ’90s rapper and Seattle butt aficionado Sir Mix-A-Lot’s old phone number (which, sadly, is not 1-900-MIXALOT in reality). All the texts and calls were meant for the man who put derrieres back in vogue (and in gold macrame hot pants). Nichols only deduced the identity of the number’s previous owner after he received an outpouring of birthday wishes on August 12th, the day the world was blessed with the prophesied child who would one day be knighted, mix quite a bit, and write the world’s premiere butt anthem.

Nichols, for his part, didn’t take advantage of any of the numerous backstage passes offers, Lamborghini test drives, or lucrative corporate appearances. “No false representations is one of the rules of the bar,” as he told The Seattle Times. Nichols just wanted a local number for job-hunting, but all he was left with was a hilarious anecdote to tell recruiters. That’s what they call win-win!

“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,” he said. “It’s a total mic drop.”