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In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/
For millennials, like me: 1337 means "LEET" which is short for "Elite".
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
What about Schfifty-Five?
I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:
On the RMS Titanic there was a watertight door on E Deck numbered 23 which was informally called the "skidoo door" according to the testimony of the Chief Baker Charles John Joughin.
Missing "about three-fitty"
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
31 is funny in Turkey.
twennyone
Schfifty-five.
Where's 3.50?
42 is undeniably the funniest number
If you're gonna include 23 skidoo... You should include being at sixes and sevens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens
67... Is very very old British slang for wrecked/confused, at odds, or hysterical.
"I was all 6's and 7's"
“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
58,008 clearly wins.
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