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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Re: seven #57302 02/18/02 02:12 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Wasn't there a movie called Seven brides for seven brothers? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: seven #57303 02/18/02 02:38 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Yep, bel...a Broadway musical and a movie. more 3s The Shamrock, the Triton, the Pyramids (their sides are geometeric triangles), The Three Musketeers, The Third Eye, Three Blind Mice, Babe Ruth wore number 3, The Tolkien Trilogy. In numerology 3 is the number of creativity/but can lapse into indecision. How well I know...my birthpath number is 3. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: seven #57304 02/18/02 03:07 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US S slithy toves enthusiast slithy toves enthusiast S Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US The 7 labours of Hercules..... I believe it was 12 labors. And that's another number with mythic/biblical overtones: the 12 tribes of Israel; the 12 apostles--and that, I've heard, is how come it's considered unlucky to have 13 at the supper table. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: seven #57305 02/18/02 03:09 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia Thanks slithy - when it comes to matters theological I am not a reliable source of information... stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: twelve #57306 02/18/02 03:45 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 And of course, the twelve days of Christmas. [signed] Emily Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: seven #57307 02/18/02 05:35 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia D doc_comfort addict doc_comfort addict D Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia - time measured by a 7-day week (established by the babylonians, I believe, per their belief that 7 was a sacred number) I think God might have something to say about that... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Fibonacci #57308 02/18/02 11:28 AM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York R Rubrick addict Rubrick addict R Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York The Shamrock, the Triton, the Pyramids (their sides are geometeric triangles), The Three Musketeers, The Third Eye, Three Blind Mice, Babe Ruth wore number 3, The Tolkien Trilogy. In numerology 3 is the number of creativity/but can lapse into indecision. How well I know...my birthpath number is 3. This numbering system is inherent in nature. It was first laid down by Fibonacci 900 years ago. So it's far from a coincidence that is used so widely. People think in threes and fives. All nature derives from these numbers too. Leaves on a tree are divided into three and five segments (so it is impossible to have a four-leaf clover). Doodle on the phone and you will draw a triangle or a pentacle. Think of a number between one and ten (or one and a hundred) and you will inevitably pick a fibonacci number. Give it a go. Your nature will overcome your conscious. Writers and mathematicians, musicians and artists are inspired by the number three. In art you have the 'rule of thirds', musicians have lond preferred the three-time and writers love the number three. Include in your list of books The Third Man and The Thirty-nine steps. Most successful plots involve three central characters and are broken into three acts or scenes. Mathematicians are mostly concerned by triangles and cubed numbers. Architects follow onto this by using triangulation to survey and to design. It is no wonder that we are obsessed with the number three!! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Numbers are interesting #57309 02/18/02 11:33 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,543 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,543 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA _All_ numbers are interesting, actually. If there were one that wasn't, that would be a characteristic to make it interesting... Read "The Phantom Tollbooth" (book by Norton Juster, no lyrics; illustrations by Jules Feiffer) to your kids someday...delves gently into "innumeracy", the concept analagous to illiteracy. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Numbers are interesting #57310 02/18/02 03:16 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 96 Blackpool England D duncan large journeyman duncan large journeyman D Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 96 Blackpool England I think this is a great thread ,.............anyone who disagrees will get a bunch of fives the Duncster the Duncster Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Numbers are interesting #57311 02/18/02 03:17 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 96 Blackpool England D duncan large journeyman duncan large journeyman D Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 96 Blackpool England Sorry to be so aggressive, its just that i'm 3 sheets to the wind the Duncster the Duncster Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... 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