Its Also my Lucky Number! *NT*


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Posted by ---[Randal]--- at cache2-nrth.server.ntli.net on July 18, 2003 at 20:11:03:

In Reply to: Why? posted by ninam on July 18, 2003 at 20:07:12:

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: William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays.
: Fenway Park's Green Monster is 37 feet tall.

: Michael Jackson's "Victory Tour," in the summer of 1984, included 37 shows, and his album "Thriller" was #1 for 37 weeks on the Billboard charts.

: Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail solo around the world, did so in a 37-foot sailboat.

: The only American President to resign from office was the 37th: Nixon.

: The Hindenburg took 37 seconds to burn (in 1937).

: Monica Lewinsky was cleared to enter the White House 37 times between the time she left her staff job there in April 1996 and December 1997.

: 37 seconds elapsed between the sighting of the iceberg and its collision with the Titanic.

: Byron, Dylan Thomas, Rimbaud, and Pushkin died at age 37 (Pushkin in 1837).

: 37 holes in the mouthpiece of a telephone.

: Eyeshot's Throop Roebling wrote this sometime during the 37th week of the year 2000.

: All American Express card numbers begin with 37.

: The number 37 when multiplied by multiples of 3 creates 3-sequenced numbers (eg, 37 x 3 = 111, 37 x 6 = 222, 37 x 9 = 333, 37 x 12= 444, etc.).

: 37 x 24 = 888, the Greek number for the name Jesus.

: There are 37 miracles in the Bible.

: There are 37 politically correct ways to call someone stupid.

: Tyrannosaurus rex has 37 vertebrae in its tail.

: SPAM was invented in 1937.

: When Yankees pitcher David Wells pitched a perfect game against Minnesota, he retired 37 consecutive batters.

: "Normal" human body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius.

: This last fact was a Jeopardy question in October 1997, and by answering it correctly, the contestant raised her total to $3,700.

: In Cool Hand Luke, Lucas Jackson's (Paul Newman's) prison number is 37.

: In an episode of the Simpsons, Homer asks Marge to guess a number between 1 and 50; she correctly guesses 37 -- to which Homer replies "Do'ah! I mean 'no.'"

: For The Shining, Kubrick changed the room number -- in which that luscious naked woman instantaneously decays into something less desirable and more decayed -- from Stephen King's original 217 to 237; a review of the film remarked that this change was based on "mysterious reasons of his own."
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