THE 23 THREAD

Gory said:

I shall start the list with one of the best and first 23's we encountered and it meant something...

The Human Body has 23 genes.

bean said:
I was born on the 23rd. I've always had a special bond with the number, but it wasn't until I was in college that I found out other people who have no particularly significant personal association with the number have all these ideas about it.

Flux said:
It all came from The Principia Discordia.

I turn 23 on Sunday. Hail Eris!

Also, it's prime. Delicious.

Subrosa said:

I, too, was born on the 23rd. Apparently, we are awesome.

Twenty-three is:

* Among the white pride community, 23 represents the letter W (the 23rd letter of the alphabet) and is used to indicate pride in being of European descent
* In early 20th century United States slang, 23 skiddoo means to exit a place; the origins of the phrase are largely unknown
* Sydney Carton is the 23rd person executed at the end of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
* 23, a German movie about Karl Koch
* Viginti Tres (23 in Latin) is a song on the album 10,000 Days by Tool
* A telegraphers' code meaning "line break"
* When mathematician John Forbes Nash suffered from schizophrenic delusions, he said that Life Magazine had run a cover story of him disguised as Pope John XXIII, as his name was John and his favorite prime number was 23. Nash published a total of 23 scientific articles
* Actor Danny Trejo's name in "Con Air" was Johnny 23
* The number of people (16 females, 7 males) Neo was to select in order to refound Zion in The Matrix Reloaded
* A song of the band Jimmy Eat World on their album Futures
* ASCII character number 23 is ETB, end transmission block
* The score of a null game in Skat
* The smallest group of people in which there is more than a 50% chance that 2 people will share the same birthday (day and month, not year)
* One of the "Lost Numbers" on the television show Lost, along with 4, 8, 15, 16 and 42. According to producers of the show, 23 is the most important of these six numbers. One of the second season episodes of Lost is entitled, since it contains references to, "The 23rd Psalm"
* Purple 23 is the parking space where Kramer hides his air conditioner in the 23rd Seinfeld episode, "The Parking Garage" (Season 3, Episode 6).
* The standard TCP/IP port number for Telnet connections
* The number of crosses on the hill at the end of the Monty Python film "The Life of Brian" is 23
* Princess Leia is being held in detention block AA-23 in the Star Wars film "A New Hope"
* When Zoidberg upsets the shelf containing the various alternative universes in the Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox", the only visible universe number is 23
* In The Simpsons, when Homer asks for the bathroom in Burns' house in the episode "Exit to Springfield", Burns says it is the 23rd door on the left.
* In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Caesar was stabbed a total of 23 times (in the Arden Edition it is said that he was stabbed 33 times "Never till Caesar's three and thirty wounds"
* Number 23 is recognized as a number of Freetekno culture, often used on decorations, party names, etc.
* In the movie Serendipity during the beginning of the movie, both John and Sarah pick the 23rd floor before "the devil" separates them
* In the movie Happy Gilmore during the hockey tryout at the beginning of the movie, Happy Gilmore is number 23
* 2005 December 23 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 23 people
* The animated band Gorillaz have had many references to 23 from clothing to appearances in its music videos. In Noodle's computer, in the BootDisk, there is a file on the number 23.
* Dr. Pepper now boasts being an "authentic blend of 23 flavors" [1]
* The Twenty Threes is a secret society at Wake Forest University. The society's flag flew at the Wake Forest v. Liberty game on September 30, 2006, causing much discussion on Accboards.com.
* AirIndia Flight 182 (Toronto to New Delhi) was bombed in mid-air on June 23, 1985 killing all 329 people on board
* Nathan Scott's (James Lafferty) jersey number in the hit show One Tree Hill
* In The Big Lebowski, the Dude and his friends always use Lane 23 at the bowling alley
* In The Passion of the Christ, Jesus is whipped 23 times before he sees Satan in the crowd.
* In Isaac Asimov's short story The Feeling of Power, Myron Aub is asked to multiply the numbers 17 and 23 to demonstrate his powers of calculation
* There are 23 cents (music) in a Pythagorean comma.
* There were 23 members of Spiral Tribe
* A key member of the Electronic Body Music band Front 242 from Belgium is Richard23.
* The Qur'an was revealed to Muhammad over the course of the last 23 years of his life by the angel Gabriel.
* The numbers of the date September 11, 2001 add up to 23: 9+11+2+0+0+1 = 23.

Zarth said:
Shouldn't this be in Silliness with the others? Or are you guys too cool for that?

AndersWolleck said:
i have 23 testicles, in a bag next to my bed

neverender said:
dude, 23 is a lifestyle. aint nuthin silly bout it.

TheGringo said:

I guess I'd pay more attention to it if there were 23 hours in a day (and yes, I know there are 23 plus 1..der her her).