Title text:
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.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/
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0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Oh, that’s easy to remember!
I’ve had a bit of a tumble
twennyone
You stoopid
Where’s 3.50?
Get outa here ya lock ness
They forgot 37.
My girlfriend acquired 37 limes In a row?!!
There really is an xkcd for everything.
Schfifty-five.
Shiggity shawh
58,008 clearly wins.
That took me so long to figure out, I’m embarrassed
Women and men love it!
Tree fiddy
42 is undeniably the funniest number
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there’s no good direct translation for this)
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?
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”
Dressed to the nines no less.
We better 86 it with all this numbers business tho.
67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.
Bot account? Comments seem like your average “short and humorous response” bot.
Definitely a bot, not sure what the point of them is on Lemmy.
Strong Bad made seven fifty funny too :)
