Pokemon?
14 knots of Gordias in a fabled Phrygian design?
(Note: Gordias was, of course, the tyer of the eponymous Gordian knot. He was a member of the royal house of Phrygia, a kingdom in Asia Minor some 3,000 years ago. King Midas’ father.)
That’s comedy gold, I tells ya. Pure gold.
Actually, I don’t know how the smiley got there. My big fat clumsy fingers must have inadvertently hit it. That is what the sequence of letters TriPolar posted stands for. Don’t know where TriPolar heard of it, but it’s something I remember well from Ancient Greek studies at the little school I attended here in Oklahoma back in the day.
I’m confused why you didn’t include “y” as a vowel. Without your parenthetical comment, eighty one qualifies.
Are you kidding me? That’s been on the Dope for ages. You if you aren’t shittin’ me you have to notify a mod and have them re-open this thread. Zeldar mentions it in The truly great threads in SDMB history.
Yes, but Jim Carrey asks them better.
…factoring like quantities (ie the OPs question) Of Course the answer is yes. 
Someone brings this up on the Giraffe Boards but used ‘14 karats of…’ instead of ‘14 knots’.
blondebear has something very similar in the original thread.
So does ninety-one. However the number I am thinking of has no Y when spelled out.
The notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes.
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They should both be made to shut up.
so maybe now we can ALL get some sleep.
Yes, eighty-one and ninety-one are the two solutions to that equation proposed back in post #52.
If “y” is not allowed, the only thing I can come up with is 2, provided you write it as “one couple”. For anything else, I am going to need a bit more of a hint.
I feel your pain, but this riddle was in response to a taunt of “way too easy” after a previous riddle. Hardly seems fair to ask to take away that pain now.
If there’s no Y, that rules out everything from 20 to 99, and any higher numbers (with the exception of “one googol” as noted above) will be too long as they will all need to include “hundred”, “thousand”, “million” etc. No numbers between 1 and 19 fit the bill, and zero and below end up too long as well. So it’s not a number like that. So it’s some other kind of number.
I was a bit sloppy above – it isn’t that there cannot be a “y” in the answer (at least as I understood it), just that we can’t count it as a vowel. However as mentioned before, I ran all the numbers up to 1.2 million and didn’t get any hits. Assuming integers and that NSNumberFormatter isn’t using British English or something.
This statement suggests complex numbers to me. They have an “i” there that could be useful, so something like 14i = “fourteen i” would work.
Perhaps, but not some esoteric college educated bizzaro symbol number. It is a common one everyone knows.
Eleventy-something?
What has sixteen legs and flies?
8 pairs of pants.
I was thinking 4 dead horses.