# Numbers with common associations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473 "2017-09-04T13:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/21 "2017-09-05T00:10:21Z")
37- Human body temp in celsius 41- George Bush Sr. was 41st President 43- George Bush Jr. was 43rd President 46- Total number of human chromosomes 47- Mitt Romney’s controversial remark ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/22 "2017-09-05T00:25:11Z")
All prime numbers are interesting. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/23 "2017-09-05T00:46:27Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I immediately thought of 99, for Wayne Gretzky [99 Luftballons.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Dcd1aUcE) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/24 "2017-09-05T01:17:10Z")
3… … is a magic number [Yes it is, it’s a magic number](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0). ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/25 "2017-09-05T02:50:52Z")
Wow, that group was done fast! Sorry, I haven’t got time to really think about these, so not many accounted for. Have at 'em: 51 Area 51 52 weeks in a year 53 Herbie in the Love Bug (suggested earlier by someone) 54 Car 54 Where are you? 55 speed limit (during fuel shortage) 56 ? 57 Heinz varieties 58 ? 59 Feeling groovy 60 Seconds/minute or Minutes/Hour 61 ? 62 earliest age a healthy retiree can get Social Security (I think?) 63 ? 64 squares on a chess board 65 common retirement age 66 Route 66 67 ? 68 means the kitchen is out of whatever 69 sex position 70 Muslim martyrs get 70 virgins in heaven 71 ? 72 Um, there’s something about 72 in calculating bank interest, I think? 73 ? 74 ? 75 ? Also, since it came to me: 76 trombones in the big parade. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/26 "2017-09-05T03:21:24Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Wow, that group was done fast! > > Sorry, I haven’t got time to really think about these, so not many accounted for. Have at 'em: > > 68 means the kitchen is out of whatever > > 70 Muslim martyrs get 70 virgins in heaven 86 means the kitchen is out of an item. Muslim martyrs get 72 virgins. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/27 "2017-09-05T03:23:07Z")
74 miles per hour is the minimum wind speed for a storm to be a hurricane. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/28 "2017-09-05T03:31:55Z")
I thought of a couple of more numbers that definitely are part of popular culture. Maxwell Smart’s Control number is 86. His partner is Agent 99. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/29 "2017-09-05T05:00:50Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > 72 Um, there’s something about 72 in calculating bank interest, I think? For investments, the ‘rule of 72’ (or 70) is used to determine… > [@](#): > > How long will it take to double your money? > > Let’s say this is in years, if we’re compounding annually, so if you get 1%, it will take you 70 years to double your money. At 25%, it will only take you a little over three years to double your money. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/30 "2017-09-05T05:48:20Z")
NASCAR fans will immediately recognize 43 as the numberr always associated with “The King” Richard Petty. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/31 "2017-09-05T07:00:42Z")
What self-declaration of a person’s age is least likely to be suspected of being a lie or exaggeration? The opposite of 18 and 39, the most likely to be presumed lies. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/32 "2017-09-05T08:05:55Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 86 means the kitchen is out of an item. And by extension, it came to mean to get rid of a customer. That is, for that customer, they’re out of everything so they may as well leave. The meaning then got extended to eveything. Eighty-sixing something was to toss it out. > [@cochrane](#): > > Maxwell Smart’s Control number is 86. This was not a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/33 "2017-09-05T09:27:22Z")
666 ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/34 "2017-09-05T18:01:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 86 means the kitchen is out of an item. > > Muslim martyrs get 72 virgins. Dang. ☹ (Can you be dyslexic with numbers?) And I’d always heard it as seventy, but Google says you’re right about the virgins. So 72 is covered, but 68 is now back to “?” And we’ll take advantage of Bullit’s post to slide Rule of 70 into the gap the virgins used to cover. But no other posts, so 56 is starting to look good. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/35 "2017-09-05T18:15:48Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Dang. ☹ (Can you be dyslexic with numbers?) > > And I’d always heard it as seventy, but Google says you’re right about the virgins. > > So 72 is covered, but 68 is now back to “?” > > And we’ll take advantage of Bullit’s post to slide Rule of 70 into the gap the virgins used to cover. > > But no other posts, so 56 is starting to look good. 56 it LT’s number in football. More importantly the length of Joe DiMaggio’s consecutive game hitting streak which is well known to baseball fans and older seniors. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/36 "2017-09-05T18:53:30Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > It’s [a song](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_(song)) that was a pretty big hit in 1985. Although maybe not so much in America. No, it was played eleventy-seven bazillion times in the US. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/37 "2017-09-05T19:09:17Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Dang. ☹ (Can you be dyslexic with numbers?) > > And I’d always heard it as seventy, but Google says you’re right about the virgins. > > So 72 is covered, but 68 is now back to “?” > > And we’ll take advantage of Bullit’s post to slide Rule of 70 into the gap the virgins used to cover. > > But no other posts, so 56 is starting to look good. I remembered the number of virgins because of this joke about Osama being greeted in the afterlife by a few score of citizens of the Old Dominion. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/4xj55t/after\_osama\_bin\_laden\_dies\_he\_finds\_himself\_in/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/4xj55t/after_osama_bin_laden_dies_he_finds_himself_in/) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/38 "2017-09-05T19:44:39Z")
[47 is the Star Trek number.](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/47) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/39 "2017-09-05T20:54:26Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Well, there’s 420. > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Are you suggesting it has a meaning, or doesn’t? Dopers, the _other_ kind of dopers, know about [420](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)) ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/40 "2017-09-05T22:41:55Z")
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