I’ve searched the archives and my dog eared copies of Straight Dope books to come up dry. I must say, after years of abstract questions thrown at me, my husband has finally stumped me.
What is the significance of the *21 * gun salute? Why not 20 or 22?
I coulda sworn this has been covered before, but I’ll be danged if I can find it.
Tom, you are the best.
Now, why didn’t my search come up with what you did?
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I dunno. I went to the SD home page, selected Archive, scrolled past the “Text to Search for” at the top of the page to the second search box, made sure that the column type was “ALL” the Boolean string was “AND” and the case selection was “Insensitive”, then typed in 21 gun salute for the “Text to Search for”.
The linked thread was the only one that came back.