Longtime WGBH subscriber Larry Davidson of Dorchester reports that he got two copies of WGBH's monthly magazine, one with a mailing label that adds this cryptic line between his name and address:
WAITER-SUNSET-LAPTOP-VIDEO
Cognitive-acuity test or coded message intended for 'GBH's black-helicopter pilots?
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Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?
By MrZip
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 9:26am
n/t
Person Woman
By Ari O
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 9:33am
Man Camera TV
That's the joke
By Scratchie
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 9:47am
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You need to decode the message
By roadman
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 9:33am
with your Cookie Monster special decoder ring.
What, no credit card numbers?
By BostonDog
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 9:42am
.
Send it to ZOOM
By Liam
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 9:56am
Z, double O, M,
Box 3-5-O,
Boston., Mass.
O-2-1-3-4
Less interesting but true answer
By JimH
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 10:38am
It's the activation code for the GBH Passport service via the PBS app. If you donate a certain amount per year, you get an account to stream their programs.
PBS is allowed to charge for streaming?
By StillFromDorchester
Wed, 02/24/2021 - 9:56am
That doesn't sound right.
Back Catalog
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 02/24/2021 - 3:11pm
First of all, yes. They can charge for streaming. You don't see those charges for current episodes of their wares because they are part of the fees you pay to streaming services.
Secondly, this passport allows you to go back and pick out decades of NOVA episodes or other content that isn't the current episode or feature.
Domino
By Scratchie
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 10:48am
The last word is "Domino", not "Video." It'll never make sense if you don't notice that. /s
Not to be a buzzkill
By sebmodio
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 11:19am
But it's just the passphrase to set up an online account or something like that. Says so on like the inside cover.
Passport Activation
By Subscriber
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 11:32am
The mailing label code is a subscriber's password to online viewing: "If you do not have your activation code, it should be printed on the mailing label of your Explore! magazine."
Easy...
By Friartuck
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 12:27pm
Waiter at Sunset Grill and Tap in Allston seen on video using laptop during lunch rush... cold food delivered along with slow drink delivery...utter chaos ensues...
The answer
By JonT
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 12:52pm
They've been doing that for a while now. Its a code you can use to get subscriber access to programming on the PBS website.
great!
By scollaysq
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 12:59pm
Now we can all get extra PBS stuff!
Yep, it's a pronounceable, redundant encoding
By Tim Mc.
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 4:23pm
The words are probably drawn from a word list of (let's say) 256 words, selected to be as different from each other as possible in both spelling and pronunciation. Each word represents a number from 0 to 255. A list of four such words can encode over 4 billion different values.
They could instead use hexadecimal and say "your code is A4-45-0C-F8" but even a little smudge on the shipping label (which is extremely common) would make it unusable.
probaly his occupation and hobbies entered into the wrong field
By schneidz
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 3:52pm
seems similar to these:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-seay-officemax...
https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-...
s.a.t. practice ?
By schneidz
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 6:57pm
waiter is to sunset as laptop is to video.
(which translates to: one watches a sunset on a waiter the same way one watches video on a laptop).
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