41 is also the number of times that NYC cops decided they needed to shoot at Amadou Diallo to kill him.
Whoa, maybe he was part of the 41 conspiracy!
This just occurred to me. The sum of one each of the four most commonly used US coins is $0.41. Also, it is common knowledge that the Illuminati have all kinds of symbolism snuck into US money. Coincidence? I doubt it.
Does anyone have a rifle that I could borrow, or a clocktower? It is about time that I let the MAN know that I know about a little something that he knows, if you know what I mean.
41 is a much better number than 42. 41 is an absolute prime whereas 42 is a relative prime to 41. It needs 41 to shine, on its own it is nothing but the product of 6 and 7.
I see the number 169 everywhere. It was my locker number in school, my post office box number when I lived in Moose Lake (while I attended school), 169 appears in the case number with which I will soon be involved, the second time I was robbed the guy made off with $169 (no, I’m not kidding), I think it’s the freeway exit number where I live now. It’s creepy.
169 was the sum of the numbers worn by the starting lineup of the last Chicago Bulls championship team. It is also Luc Longley’s number squared.
Does this mean that Luc is a mason? Of course it does.
Now, this is a little weird. When a friend of mine in high school and I read HHGTTG, we started seeing 42 everywhere. We decided to run a control experiment by seeing if the number 37 started cropping up everywhere, and it cropped up even more frequently than 42. We decided to choose yet another number, which was 23. 23 didn’t really appear anywhere, but, bizarrely enough, 23 is the number that Robert Anton Wilson thinks is part of the big Illuminati plot (at the time, we hadn’t read R.A.W.)
I would suspect that to some extent, there are rules that determine whether or not numbers strike people as being significant. Prime numbers get a certain amount of cachet (7, 13, the 19 of Islam, and in particular of Farrakhan’s illucid rantings, Wilson’s 23, and the 137 that obsesses a lot of people, physicists and laymen alike, because of its connection to the fine structure constant. Everett Allie probably still has his http://www.specieup.org webpage where he claims that subatomic particles are all little gears with 137 teeth.) Repeating numbers (666, the “33” on beer bottles, etc.) get some cachet too.
The numbers that catch my imagination have more to do with my synaesthesia. I probably chose “37” because the blue of the 3 and the green of the 7 go well together.
-Ben
As all Douglas Adams fans know, it’s 6 X 9.
yes, you see 41 more because you’re looking for it – consciously or subconsciously
this kind of thing happens all the time.
New York Mets’ retired numbers:
41 (Tom Seaver)
37 (Casey Stengel)
14 (Gil Hodges – 41 reversed, of course)
add the MLB’s one universally retired number:
42 (Jackie Robinson)
Spooky!
On the topic, see last year’s excellent German film “23” about a computer hacker who was freaked out by the number and RAW’s books (the movie was based on a true story). I hope you can get it wherever you may be, it’s well worth it.
Similar flick…
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138704
The scary thing is… in base 13- six by nine is forty two.
More on the number.
Fox Mulder’s apt number- 42.
Number of times Fox has seen Plan 9 from outer space- 42.
1987 Golf GTI’s have the number 42 on the coolant tank.
‘42nd Street’ is a broadway play.
can’t remember any more now. too early.
42nd Street is a Broadway cross-street, too.
Eerie!
Good idea, malaka. Here’s the link for “23”:
I don’t know… Almost two years ago now my friend and I started an inside joke about Scotland (really, don’t ask) but then it definitely got carried away…
The only country we ever saw in the news ws Scotland. It was the answer on all the tests. Every name we saw in movie credits was “Scott” etc.
We (being the scientific type people we are, and I having been exposed to the straight dope at a really young age) figured it was just that we were looking for it. So we decided to pick another country with about the same popularity. We picked Australia and have heard next to nothing about it, while Scotland continued stalking us. Coincidentally enough my boyfriend is named Scott…
There has to be some explanation for why countries, names and numbers single people out. It’s not just the drugs, I swear!
Lauren =>One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do
The scary thing is… you realizedthis.
What’s even scarier… I *checked.*You are right.
I must confess- I did not realize this. It is a fact easily found by those obsessed with instances of the number 42. I am a -big- Hitch-Hiker’s Gude to The Galaxy fan. I am honored that you checked though.