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Jongewehr
Jul 2, 2009, 01:03 PM
i just got a letter from apple the return addres is


:apple:
Apple Inc.
125245 Riata VISTA Circle
Austin Texas 78727

Hence the vista.

just thought was kinda humorous


Unspoken Demise
Jul 2, 2009, 01:07 PM
Rolling on the floor laughing laugh out loud laugh my ass off?
Jongewehr
Jul 2, 2009, 01:11 PM
Rolling on the floor laughing laugh our loud laugh my ass off?

i sense sarcasm lol
Unspoken Demise
Jul 2, 2009, 01:14 PM
i sense sarcasm lol

You are correct sir.
The most the return address got out of me was a mildly assumed "HuH" (not like a question, but as a kind of sigh.)
spaceboots06
Jul 2, 2009, 01:15 PM
Well, they already have 1 Infinite Loop so I guess they didn't want to do it twice.
Jongewehr
Jul 2, 2009, 01:22 PM
i wonder if they had this b4 vista came out
zmttoxics
Jul 2, 2009, 01:31 PM
Didn't really do it for me either, but I see the direction they were headed... :p
Abstract
Jul 2, 2009, 01:58 PM
With a street number of 125245, Riata Vista must be a very long street!!
imaketouchtheme
Jul 2, 2009, 02:24 PM
With a street number of 125245, Riata Vista must be a very long street!!

Haha.

This post was funnier than the OP.
Jongewehr
Jul 2, 2009, 02:57 PM
Haha.

This post was funnier than the OP.

i agree lol
LizKat
Jul 2, 2009, 02:58 PM
With a street number of 125245, Riata Vista must be a very long street!!

Probably just an E911 address (enhanced emergency location system). Depending on locale, US addresses are usually standardized by ranges of units between mile markers or pegged to some sort of grid suited to the county or municipality. Often the address number itself will not only nail down the location in that way but may tell emergency dispatchers how far the location is from the nearest fire house, as a way of getting some kind of sanity check on the reported address.

It's reassuring for people who have heard about or experienced disastrous mixups in emergency assistance dispatched to wrong locations (wrong county, wrong state, wrong roadway suffix -- Place v. Avenue v. Road etc).

And of course, sigh.... it jacks up the paranoia among some people whose first thought is that they liked it a lot better when they lived in "the green house out by Sherman's Corners after you pass Weldon's place" rather than something that's practically a GPS marker for the black helicopters.