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In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/
What about Schfifty-Five?
I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:
On the RMS Titanic there was a watertight door on E Deck numbered 23 which was informally called the "skidoo door" according to the testimony of the Chief Baker Charles John Joughin.
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
31 is funny in Turkey.
Schfifty-five.
twennyone
Where's 3.50?
Missing "about three-fitty"
42 is undeniably the funniest number
58,008 clearly wins.
“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there's no good direct translation for this)
Needs to add my favorite number: 8647
Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think "because 789" could bring 789 into the discussion.
Further cementing that there is an xkcd for everything.
For millennials, like me: 1337 means "LEET" which is short for "Elite".
Tree fiddy
They left out 86 and the more recent variant 8647
If you're gonna include 23 skidoo... You should include being at sixes and sevens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens
67... Is very very old British slang for wrecked/confused, at odds, or hysterical.
"I was all 6's and 7's"
8675309
There really is an xkcd for everything.
I'm still disappointed that 27 never managed to get on this list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64
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