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Is it acceptable for pi to be your lucky number and if so do you have to name all the digits following the decimal place?
I think my lucky number must be 37 because there was a time, many years ago, when both my parents and one set of my grandparents lived in houses with the number 37.
They also both moved out of them at roughly the same time. I believe that growing up in such close proximity to the number 37 has had a significant effect. Perhaps they were worried about the effect it was having on me, like living too close to an elctricity pylon, and that was the reason they both moved.
Okay, I’m going to jump in with both feet and proclaim myself the living god of 37. 37 is a prime number and thus is less susceptible to being broken down by the smaller divisive numbers of the lesser numerical gods.
If you experience any kind of fortuitous event involving the number 37, such as winning £37, or if one of your numbers on a winning lottery ticket is 37, then you may take this as blessing.
Conversely, if you suffer a misfortune that somehow involves the number 37 – You are fined for speeding in a residential area while driving at 37 MPH - Your train is 37 minutes late, then this means you have displeased me in some way.
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Is it acceptable for pi to be your lucky number and if so do you have to name all the digits following the decimal place?
I think my lucky number must be 37 because there was a time, many years ago, when both my parents and one set of my grandparents lived in houses with the number 37.
They also both moved out of them at roughly the same time. I believe that growing up in such close proximity to the number 37 has had a significant effect. Perhaps they were worried about the effect it was having on me, like living too close to an elctricity pylon, and that was the reason they both moved.
Okay, I’m going to jump in with both feet and proclaim myself the living god of 37. 37 is a prime number and thus is less susceptible to being broken down by the smaller divisive numbers of the lesser numerical gods.
If you experience any kind of fortuitous event involving the number 37, such as winning £37, or if one of your numbers on a winning lottery ticket is 37, then you may take this as blessing.
Conversely, if you suffer a misfortune that somehow involves the number 37 – You are fined for speeding in a residential area while driving at 37 MPH - Your train is 37 minutes late, then this means you have displeased me in some way.
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""All my friends are soldiers
and they are getting drunk
Oh, Johnny come and save me
I believe my luck has sunk.""
- Jeffrey Lee Pierce"
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It's getting hard to post on this thread. Are we reaching critical mass?
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I believe my luck has sunk.""
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Bat-Mite wrote:
Hmm... Are we taking this board to limits where it should not be taken?
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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
" Hey backward7 thought I'd point out that 47 is also a prime number. For that matter so are 7, 17, 67, and 97. What's with 7?
And by the way I think this thread has long since gone beyond the conventional boundaries of a message board. I don't think threads are supposed to go on for over a year."
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Z wrote:
Must be. I hadn't even /meant/ to double post.
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Sriad wrote:
"137 is prime too, and that's a neat physics type number. Damned if I can remember what it means though..."
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Papercut Fun wrote: " quote:
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137 is prime too, and that's a neat physics type number. Damned if I can remember what it means though...
I believe it represents the number of posts on ""Teabags"" before the thread went spiraling wildly out of control. At this point we're all just pretty much hanging on for dear life."
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Rama Bonn wrote:
"Page # 47! That's fantastic.
And synchronistic too. I just turned (age) 47, two days ago.
So this is my lucky teabag page too.
Rama"
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HG wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Sriad:
137 is prime too, and that's a neat physics type number. Damned if I can remember what it means though...
The fine structure constant. You can go to http://members.shaw.ca/quadibloc/science/phyint.htm and read the last two sentences. Or, more keeping in the spirit of our hallowed thread, you can take it as the ratio of water molecules to non-water molecules in an optimal cup of tea. ------------------ The brain does process all sensation, Crowley said. If the brain is fully awake and conscious of what it is doing, why on earth should it treat any sensation as a less than orgasmic experience? - Robert Anton Wilson, ""Masks of the Illuminati"""
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HG wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Sriad:
137 is prime too, and that's a neat physics type number. Damned if I can remember what it means though...
The fine structure constant. You can go to http://members.shaw.ca/quadibloc/science/phyint.htm and read the last two sentences. Or, more keeping in the spirit of our hallowed thread, you can take it as the ratio of water molecules to non-water molecules in an optimal cup of tea. ------------------ The brain does process all sensation, Crowley said. If the brain is fully awake and conscious of what it is doing, why on earth should it treat any sensation as a less than orgasmic experience? - Robert Anton Wilson, ""Masks of the Illuminati"""
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HG wrote:
"So the board echoes everything we write.
Does that mean we should begin to use the royal ""we"" like Lucifer once did?
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I'd imagine that's a ""no"", wouldn't you?"
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Papercut Fun wrote: "If I could create a subthread these past few days it would be called ""Too Many Teabags"". I've been suffering the ravages of the common cold for the last few days and have been sucking down tea like there's no tomorrow. There's no joy in it anymore, and I'm not drinking anything fancy. Just your standard orange peakoe with honey. The caffine keeps me from drifting off in a congested haze. And the biggest crime of all is that the cold has kept me from getting this week's comics offerings. ![[sad]](images/icons/frown.gif) "
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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
" And thus we say good bye to lovely page 47. Shame about those double postings our it've lasted a tad longer. Hopefully we'll not have this be a recurring theme as Teabags enters it's fifties. :) "
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Z wrote:
"Maybe it was just due to the power of the number 7. If that's the case, just wait til the thread hits the 70's."
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I suspect Rob will shut us down long before then.
Fun With Teabags
The Reid Library Coffee Shop at the University of Western Australia has a wide and open view of gardens and the neoclassical architecture which makes it one of the most beautiful campuses I have ever visited. It has a moat with ducks and koi, and the breeze filters through the wall-less boundaries to the coffeeshop, and its a very pleasant place to take a break from study.
If you look upwards, however, there are teabags haging from the ceiling. Bored students toss their wet teabags upwards, where they stick to the concrete roof, the tabs on the ends of the strings twisting in the breeze."
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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
" This reminds me of a trick a friend of mine in high school used to do. During lunch he'd take a can of soda (or sometimes he's use a little carton of milk) and throw it against the outer wall of the cafeteria trying to make it stick to the wall. He often got some really good height with them.
Every semester the home ec class would take home baby dolls with computer chips in them for a weekend. The idea was to give them an idea of what it'd be like having a kid. The chip would monitor things like whether they 'fed' the babies or were abusive. This same friend would run around on the friday that students took these dolls home and grab the babies and shake em around or smack em.
This has nothing to do with tea of course. I just think this guy would fit into our corwd nicely. :) "
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I believe the Mongolian hordes under Genghis Khan threatened Europe armed with wet teabags, which they whirled above their helmets as they entered into combat in order to intimidate their opponents. ------------------ Do some good in the world: United Nations on-line Volunteers.Proud dad of Imogen Solbritt Stewart, born 30 09-2002."
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Keravin wrote: "We're using teabags in the teapot??? Me and my tea strainer will be over there. ------------------ There are three types of people the world does not understand. Madmen, geniuses and people who mumble - Whistler BTVS ""Besides the day I can't mutilate 30 radioactive teenagers is the day I hang up my coat for good"" - Midnighter, Authority #16 Honourary member of the authority hellfire club whose motto is... 'Take it until it bleeds,you scottish bastard' http://www.digitallymystic.com Quintessence of Dust and Coven Tree at http://www.nextcomics.com "
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Keravin wrote: "We're using teabags in the teapot??? Me and my tea strainer will be over there. ------------------ There are three types of people the world does not understand. Madmen, geniuses and people who mumble - Whistler BTVS ""Besides the day I can't mutilate 30 radioactive teenagers is the day I hang up my coat for good"" - Midnighter, Authority #16 Honourary member of the authority hellfire club whose motto is... 'Take it until it bleeds,you scottish bastard' http://www.digitallymystic.com Quintessence of Dust and Coven Tree at http://www.nextcomics.com "
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Keravin wrote: "We're using teabags in the teapot??? Me and my tea strainer will be over there. ------------------ There are three types of people the world does not understand. Madmen, geniuses and people who mumble - Whistler BTVS ""Besides the day I can't mutilate 30 radioactive teenagers is the day I hang up my coat for good"" - Midnighter, Authority #16 Honourary member of the authority hellfire club whose motto is... 'Take it until it bleeds,you scottish bastard' http://www.digitallymystic.com Quintessence of Dust and Coven Tree at http://www.nextcomics.com "
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Keravin wrote: "We're using teabags in the teapot??? Me and my tea strainer will be over there. ------------------ There are three types of people the world does not understand. Madmen, geniuses and people who mumble - Whistler BTVS ""Besides the day I can't mutilate 30 radioactive teenagers is the day I hang up my coat for good"" - Midnighter, Authority #16 Honourary member of the authority hellfire club whose motto is... 'Take it until it bleeds,you scottish bastard' http://www.digitallymystic.com Quintessence of Dust and Coven Tree at http://www.nextcomics.com "
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Keravin wrote: "We're using teabags in the teapot??? Me and my tea strainer will be over there. ------------------ There are three types of people the world does not understand. Madmen, geniuses and people who mumble - Whistler BTVS ""Besides the day I can't mutilate 30 radioactive teenagers is the day I hang up my coat for good"" - Midnighter, Authority #16 Honourary member of the authority hellfire club whose motto is... 'Take it until it bleeds,you scottish bastard' http://www.digitallymystic.com Quintessence of Dust and Coven Tree at http://www.nextcomics.com "
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Keravin wrote:
I miss the delete and edit function. It hung and looked like failing to post.
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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
Sweet Jesus with a crack pipe! A QUINTUPLE POST!!! That's gotta be a new record.
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Hmmmm. I wonder if the tea thread has now crossed some sort of event horizon and has started accumulating mass to itself while collapsing into a singularity?
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Mike Carey wrote:
"I think that's exactly what's happening. The entire thread has spooled off the surface of my monitor screen and is now spinning very rapidly in the air over the keyboard. I'm feeling the tug of gravitic tides, weak for the moment but insidious and getting more and more insistent."
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That actually is a message board phenomonon called a ""board burp"". Its why I think the end is nigh, my friends, when we must wash and stack our chipped teacups and tap our strainers into the bin, and call it a day."
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strafenkinder wrote:
Here! Here!
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Papercut Fun wrote:
"But not before we take this thread further than even it thought possible. Are you with me people?!?! Now is not a time to give up. For the sake of our beloved Teabags, WE MUST BE VIGILANT! WE MUST BE STRONG! ONWARD PEOPLE, EVER ONWARD!!!
(you should probably hum some inspirational tune here)"
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Mike Carey wrote:
Oh say can you teaaaaa
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Pedro M. Ferreira wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Oh say can you teaaaaa
... ... ... ... I mean, I... ... ... Honestly, I... ... ... I'm trying, folks, I honestly am, but what can one say to *THAT*??!?! Sheer genius, Mike!!! Pedro P.S. Any good - tea-based, obviously - cleaning products to wipe saliva off computer terminals? I find myself in need of one."
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grant-is-god wrote:
"This thread is sooo crazy. On a side note, im so excited for Halloween. I'm going to be John Waters and am going to see Evil Dead 2. Yay!!
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grant-is-god wrote:
"This thread is sooo crazy. On a side note, im so excited for Halloween. I'm going to be John Waters and am going to see Evil Dead 2. Yay!!
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Lord_Savaunt wrote: " quote:
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(you should probably hum some inspirational tune here)
Well I just started humming the happy birthday song (what I find the idea of it being my bithday to be inspirational). I think we need to at least see to it that this thread reaches two years of age."
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Dave Crisp wrote:
"This seems like as good a place as any to ask this, as it is at least vaguely on topic:
On Ready Steady Cook (UK) a couple of weeks ago someone did a recipe which they called ""Tea-smoked chicken"". Sadly, I missed the start of the show so I didn't see *How* it was done.
If anyone could fill me in as to how to make this culinary masterpiece, I would be eternally grateful :-)
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Dave Crisp wrote:
"This seems like as good a place as any to ask this, as it is at least vaguely on topic:
On Ready Steady Cook (UK) a couple of weeks ago someone did a recipe which they called ""Tea-smoked chicken"". Sadly, I missed the start of the show so I didn't see *How* it was done.
If anyone could fill me in as to how to make this culinary masterpiece, I would be eternally grateful :-)
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Dave Crisp wrote:
"This seems like as good a place as any to ask this, as it is at least vaguely on topic:
On Ready Steady Cook (UK) a couple of weeks ago someone did a recipe which they called ""Tea-smoked chicken"". Sadly, I missed the start of the show so I didn't see *How* it was done.
If anyone could fill me in as to how to make this culinary masterpiece, I would be eternally grateful :-)
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Dave Crisp wrote:
"*Treble* post? Sorry, folks"
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