Why Does 1174 Mean ‘Nude Club’?

Yesterday’s revelatory list of text acronyms included the most mystifying abbreviation in SMS history: 1174 for “nude club.”

Your loyal BuzzFeed editors have toiled in the Google mills trying to answer this question, and we have nothing, so: we’d like to open this up to the wisdom of the readers. Winner gets a Gold Star and a virtual lap dance (not from me, to clarify).

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