# Is there any significance to the number 37? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 29, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972 "2001-03-29T14:28:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/21 "2001-04-01T05:54:54Z")
_sigh_ That should be [View Askew](http://www.viewaskew.com/). Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/22 "2001-04-01T07:43:06Z")
I haven’t seen “clerks” in a long time, although it was one of my favs… Was 37 the number before or after he included himself? I’m thinking 38… No? p ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/23 "2001-04-01T07:48:56Z")
Oh heck Mardi… live on the edge and rent the movie and watch it with your wife. She may beat you with one of the couch pillows until you are dead as clay… butttt… show ‘evil smiley’ (still don’t know what I’m doing) ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/24 "2001-04-01T08:10:23Z")
**Pessor** , Dante was number 37. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/25 "2001-04-01T08:20:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krispy Original \* > \*\*I’m a public announcer at baseball games and I can tell you that 37 is significant in that 37 is the password for the scoreboard. \*\* I’ll bite…why would you need a “password” for the scoreboard? ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/26 "2001-04-01T08:47:14Z")
I’m not really sure of the purpose of having a password for the scoreboard. It’s actually the scoreboard controller that is passcode protected and 37 is harcoded. I just know that when you plug the thing in, it won’t function unless the passcode 37 is entered. ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/27 "2001-04-01T08:59:49Z")
Yes AudreyK… I now remember. She also made lasagna for which she should also be revered. But getting back to the 37 Mardi… Buy her 40 balloons… Three will pop! ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/28 "2001-04-01T13:04:36Z")
I made up this “magic square” using decimals, which, if you round up to the nearest whole number, all directions total up to 37. I couldn’t come up with one that worked out to that number evenly, so I improvised. It’s not much, but it’s all I can come up with on Sunday Morning… 11.3 16.3 9.3 10.3 12.3 14.3 15.3 8.3 13.3 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/29 "2001-04-01T21:15:42Z")
You could take a nice trip to Chicago. “Block 37” is the (un)popular name for the open lot on State Street across from Marshall Field’s department store that has been empty for almost two decades now. That may not sound very romantic, but: 1. it’s in the middle of the shopping and theater area – where Broadway shows go when they aren’t on Broadway – and near a lot of nice hotels; 2. walks along Navy Pier and the lakefront are considered very romantic (except in the winter months); and 3. the block itself is used for ice skating in the winter and art exhibitions in the summer. Ok, so it’s a bit of a stretch, but we’re talking about a THEME here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972/30 "2001-04-02T00:25:20Z")
Mrs. Mojo turned 37 today! (This is not a joke.) I gave her a 22K gold necklace and _muchos flores_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-significance-to-the-number-37/59972.md?page=1)