Talk:Nick and Adalind's Loft/@comment-86.4.55.42-20160711185824/@comment-25862208-20160712015329

Great question! I love when fans check out the trivia here =]  When I added this to the trivia, I wanted to find out the same thing. I was never able to confirm this, which is why it hasn't been added to this page, but I suspect the significance of the entry code stems from the German idiom 08/15 ("Nullachtfünfzehn" in German, pronounced noo-laːxt-FOONF-tsen). Back in World War I, the MG 08/15 became the most commonly used German machine gun, though soldiers disliked how often the gun would jam, forcing them to have to go through a long-winded routine of having to practice using it and dealing with the jamming issue. The term 08/15 over time came to mean very ordinary, mundane, basic/simple, or standardized. I think this makes sense as it applies to the loft since Nick wanted to relocate to a place that didn't stick out and was hard to find but had all the basic necessities, and from the outside, the loft doesn't look special at all and seems extremely ordinary. I think Adalind said it best - "Well, it's not exactly charming, but I do feel safer than the other place."

Here are some references with some more info about the 08/15 idiom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_08#MG_08.2F15 http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/GIC/TWIG__WoW/2011/26-0815.html?archive=3224656