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T-W-E-N-T-Y----T-H-R-E-E

“The '23 Enigma', as discovered by William S. Burroughs, presents itself as a good omen for some - disaster for others. Trying to convey the phenomenon to the uninitiated is as easy as describing the night sky to someone who has been blind from birth.

When Burroughs was in Tangiers, he knew a Captain Clark who ran a ferry over to Spain. One day, Clark told Burroughs that he had been doing the route for 23 years without an accident. That day, the ferry sank . . .that evening, while Burroughs was thinking about the incident, a radio bulletin announced the crash of Flight 23 on the New York-Miami route. The pilot was another Captain Clark!
Burroughs began to keep a scrapbook of 23s. When writing about Dutch Shultz, he realized that when the New York City gangster had put a contract out on 23-year-old Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll, who met his end on 23rd St. Shultz himself died on October 23rd, 1935.

As Robert Anton Wilson writes in 'Cosmic Trigger', the same night, Marty Crompier, another gangster was shot, but not fatally. "It's got to be one of them coincidences," he told police”.


~ taken from http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id327/pg1.html


examples of 23:

Geosynchronous orbit occurs at 23,000 miles above Earth's surface.

The CIA headquarters in McLean, VA is located on rt. 123.

One of the two isotopes of Uranium used in the first atomic bomb was U235.

The tilt of Earth's axis is roughly 23o accounting for the changing seasons and the procession of the Zodiac.

Hexagram 23 in the 'I Ching' oracle means "break apart." 23 in telegrapher's code means "break the line." Aleister Crowley defined number 23 as "parting, removal, separation, joy, a thread, and life . . ."

Human DNA is broken up into 23 chromosomes; Parents each donate 23 chromosomes to the fertilized egg . . .the human biorhythm cycle is generally 23 days, and it takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.

There are 23 vertebrae in the human body
The ideal orbit for a satellite is 23,000 miles above the Earth ("Clarke's Orbit")
The (Knights) Templars had only 23 Grandmasters. Jacques de Molay was the 23rd and last of the Templar Grandmasters.

Adolf Hitler organized the National Socialist Congress on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.

63 years, the average lifespan of a human being on the planet Earth, is roughly 23,000 days.

Supposedly there are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid.

John Dillinger robbed 26 banks, but only 23 for money.

Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616.

On January 23, 1968 the USS Pueblo was hijacked off of North Korea. The crew was held exactly 11 months until December 23, 1968 when they were released after being beaten by soviets to give back an intercepted USSR message stating plans to start a nuclear war with Red China.

Over 50% of the national media is owned by 23 major corporations, as reported by Noam Chomsky. To recapitulate... more than half of the information thrust upon the American people is controlled by only 23 corporations.

Ceasar was stabbed 23 times when he was assassinated.

There were originally 23 channels of Citizens Band (CB) radio in the US. There are now 40.

....and so on.

http://yiri.maniac.com/23.html


You could probably take any number and do the same thing. Still, popular little number, isn’t it?

This topic was inspired by a couple of stories from "theregister.co.uk".

story #1
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17074.html

...Deutsche Bank is understood to have been broken into on 23 November where 49 pieces of equipment was stolen worth £1.6 million. The bank lost a further £25 million in business due to the disruption.

story #2
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17007.html

...Blueyonder customers in the south east face severe disruption to their broadband service this weekend, following the theft of 23 servers early Friday morning from parent company Telewest's network centre in Basildon.


strange....



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Is it 23? 23,000? Or "roughly" 23,000?

Yes, some of those are interesting, but with all the things that happen, have happened, these coincidences have to occur.

If I took the time, I'm sure I could make an argument for 463 or maybe 2.

But, you're put together some nice reading materil.

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In retrospect, I probably should have taken the vanilla icecream. But the chocolate looked far too tempting. Little did I know at the time, it was actually little children all mushed up into a fine icey paste. Needless to say, I didn't sleep well that night, and neither did those kiddies. Well, I didn't stand for such a crime!! NO WAY. I marched back in that store and demamded an explanation. And there is was. Double chocolate icecream. Sitting there, waiting to be ingested. Oh, the taste. Oh the pure orgasmic feeling when you consume the delicious cream. Oh, how I love chocolate icecream.

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Isn't the avg female period around 23 days or something? I know it isn't 30 and follows the lunar cycle...

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23 Psalm:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anoinest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.


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reminds me of the old man in pì

if you look for the number you will see it everywhere, how many steps it takes to get home, the number of books on your shelf...
goes on but i forgot
he had a point nonetheless

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