Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:18:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Straight 
Subject: RE: (urth) Seventeen



On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> Well, 17 is a big number for Discordians (also 5 and 23).

Heh.  Googling Discordians and 17 found this quote:

The crazies aside, though, it's the utterly boring, uncreative people who
see a stupid theme and latch on then run it into the ground that are the
worst. OMG THAT LICENSE PLATE HAS A 23 IN IT! HAIL ERIS! I remember
Crosley Bendix talking about how if you concentrate on a certain number
hard enough, you'll start to notice it everywhere. As a side note, he said
"Try it with your favorite number. If you don't have a favorite number,
you can use mine - 17." And 17 is my favorite number, which caused me to
be surprised and tingly. But I have yet to say HAIL CROSLEY BENDIX or
otherwise engage in jackassery. Well, jackassery related to that event, at
least. 

-Rostrum


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