Numbers
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 - 2:59pm
Not sure why I was thinking of this, but well...
Ever notice how certain numbers have come to have a meaning of their own. People intermix numbers in the place of words in a few cases. My examples:
Number 1 - You're either the best, or you're taking a piss. I prefer being the best, but when nature calls.
Number 2 - You're 2nd place, or your just solid waste matrerial. Again, I would still prefer being #1
13 - Either your lucky number or something associated with Fridays and usually black cats, or bad 80's horror movies
21 - Dude, you're Legal, lets go party
40 - No one lives that old, prepare for your first mid life crisis
42 - Douglas Adams. If you don't get this one, you're under 15 and should turn off the AOL account and do your homework
69 - Requirement to use if you're a teenage boy and you've only downloaded pictures of this event, 'cause there is no way in hell you've done it at that age, or a pre-requisite to quote a Bill and Ted movie
99 - Balloons and Nena - See the "40 and 42" references for this one
187 - Well if you want to do hardcore rap, you gots to adds the 187um into the lyrics somewhere. I think this is from a criminal code or something.
420 - Smoke em' if you got them dude, works best if you follow up with a 69 reference. I've never figured out where this one came from. Help.
666 - Watch out, thats the Devil /scary In middle school, if you're lucky they show you movies about the Rapture, so this one becomes more interesting then.
777 - The three numbers you will never see on a slot machine with any of your money recently placed as a wager
7-11 - Where you go to get beer at 1:59 in the morning
999 - All the good christians know this is really the devil in disguise /scary x2
1999 - Hey lets party likes its... Again, see "40 and 42"
2000 - The year all the computers break and Skynet goes on line, by the way, have you seen Sarah Conner ?
Always vigilient, and dies in the end
Which #1?
What's six times seven?
No, no, that's too literal.
But when I was a teen... nevermind.
If you want a significant number of mine, the most prominent is 47. My grandfather died of a heart attack at 47. My dad died of a heart attack at 47. My wife's mother died at 47.
Neither of us plan to get to 48. Morbid, I know.
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19 is big in (most of) Canada. Legal drinking age and voting age.
16 is driver's license age.
EDIT: Oh, and 47 is [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_(number)#In_pop_culture]not just you[/url].
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-on L4DHell with that. 99 = The Great One.
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I thought this was going to be a thread about the show Numb3rs. I don't know whether to be disppointed or not.
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wordsmythe wrote:
how about 1984, 5150 and OU812 (okay, not exactly a number)? Van Halen's got them covered.
and 2112, wooot! \m/
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Or 18. Or any number of ages depending on physicality..
Yet, oddly, correct.
Murder! ZOMGS!
Except not, that was August 4th, 1997.
This rings of plant-itude, imo
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Fails due to New England blue laws, at least in MA.
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187 = police code for homicide.
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Yea, I forgot about 1984 and 5150.
Two bonus points for you !
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Oh, 1999 is also the year that Lavos destroys the world in Chrono Trigger. I think a lot of planets in various media have chosen 1999 as the year for cataclysmic planetary events. I just don't feel like looking them up.
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1999.
In 1999, a city-sized alien spacecraft crashes on Earth, and over the course of 10 years the humans rebuild the spacecraft just before a fleet of Zentradi warships arrive on the hunt for the ship belonging to their enemy, the Supervision Army. Meanwhile, a young pilot comes of age (Hikaru Ichijyo) and struggles with a love triangle between a rising pop singer (Lynn Minmay) and a dedicated bridge officer (Misa Hayase). During the war that ensues, the human crew operating this untested alien ship find themselves alone in fending off the invaders. Due to inexperience operating the ship, they end up stranded on the edge of the solar system, with refugees from the city that grew around the restored space craft living within the ship. The malfunctioning "fold system", which usually allows rapid space travel, vanishes, causing the crew to take about a year to return to Earth using conventional engines.
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19=Joe Sakic and Steve Yzerman
16=Trevor Linden
But yeah, those are the significant numbers in Canada. *Legion*, I'm so happy that you posted about Gretzky before a Canadian. The NHL IS GROWING
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Hey, hey, hey! There are NO bad 80's horror movies!
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Hehe, I thought he meant Chthulu. It confused me, you know...
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7 - Come on, you can't forget about lucky number seven (not quite sure why it's supposed to be lucky). It really isn't too lucky in craps (except as a come out roll).
11:11 - For some reason I've had a lot of girls tell me that it's lucky to look at a digital clock at this time. Never a guy though.
11:14 - Fat Patrick Swayze.
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4:20 - I always assumed it was because...you get off work at 4, home by 4:20, time to smoke a bowl...
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93,
And here I thought you were one of the Illuminated. Tsk-tsk.
"420" I believe is a criminal code number related to marijuana possession. Filthy hippies.
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Not sure about the 69 reference...What I found works, is to follow up with a 360 controller, 3 bags of chips, 2 candy bars, and a pack of Zingers..(*sh*t I forgot to get a drink); but then again, that goes with it too...Anyway to answer your question...
Commonly accepted origin [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)](link)[/url]
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I get off work at 4? Why do I always stay until 5 then?
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Is there no love for 8008, or even better, a pair of 80085
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LobsterMobster wrote:
420 is an old Grateful Dead reference with Jerry Garcia. It was said he would get up at 4:20 am to smoke a bowl and he did this every day. I do believe he did reference it in one or two of his songs. Now that could tie into the whole thing at San Rafael High School. But I wasn't there so I can't say for certain.
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