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Will.
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| This whimsical posting has an end in sight after i have been fortyfived by the next posting |
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Will.
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Guess how old i am today???
46 YES |
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zaneth
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.47.net/47society/
What is 47?
In short, 47 appears to be the quintessential random number of the universe. In other words, when a number appears randomly, more often than not, that number is 47. In other other words, if you asked people to pick a number at random, more often than not, that number would be 47. Of course, if 47 shows up more than any other number then it isn't truly random, but using the word random makes the whole phenomenon easier to describe. |
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Atlas
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, 47 has some strange qualities, and the show Star Trek is obsessed with that number, some even call it a conspiracy:
http://www.audiograffiti.com.au/47/
I know 48 Klingon curses |
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khmerhit
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:03 am Post subject: |
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 Can we go back for a sec---this 47 stuff--it is a joke, is it not? Being a complete ignoramus with numbers, I can't tell. Help! |
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anthyp
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:09 am Post subject: |
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khmerhit, you're supposed to contribute the next number in our sequence, lest the thread go off- topic. I'll do yours,
49
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50
as well because it's a nice, round number! |
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Shaman
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:37 am Post subject: |
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Cinquante et un
50 for the name of a Canadian ale + 1 for me to drink it.
Shaman |
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stillnosheep
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:54 am Post subject: Re: World record attempt |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:15 am Post subject: |
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FIFTY-TWO EVERYONE! FIFTY-TWO! |
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zaneth
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've no idea if the 47 thing is a joke or not. I just googled it. The above used to be arranged in a nice big 53 but they all ran to the wall when I wasn't looking. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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#####...#...#..
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Were you going for something like this? |
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Shaman
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Ah, this pleases me. I thought it would pass me by as i was in transit out of Montreal.
55 - my number from football playing days.
Shaman |
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zaneth
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| The Great Wall of Whiner wrote: |
| Were you going for something like this? |
Yeah! that's it. But there were 53 of the little thingies.
Dangit, I missed Area-51. But I bet there's an even more mysterious Area-56. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| Heinz 57. |
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stillnosheep
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Khmerhit,
BTW Do you want to point out to the innumerati on the 'world record attempt' thread that by any measure they have been off-task ever since response 13, in which the poster following you included 13, but not 14, having missed your 13 and having apparently forgotten to include the OPer in their countback?
Or shall we just let them drift on?
(I see that they are two out again now ...)
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Surely you lose track of the odd sheep now and then, stillnosheep? Think of it that way. Life's not perfect.
On the other hand, yes---I probably would point it out to them. I'm a bit neurotic that way.
all grooviest,
khmer
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Is everybody (anybody?) paying attention
So I'll begin ...
The mention of 'Heinz57' was in reply 58, which was the 59th post. This is the 60th post.
One could argue for a restart from '14'
13 seems to have been the unlucky number.
There were no problems up until 12
Except for the 1st reply not including 2 which had to be posthumously re-inserted in reply 3 which was post 4. From 5 things were OK until the afformentioned 14 reverting to 13 ...... and so on ad infinitum! |
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