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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“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
For millennials, like me: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.
What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
Nope. Source: am gen X.
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
That’s the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)
Sorry, what? I’m a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:
On the RMS Titanic there was a watertight door on E Deck numbered 23 which was informally called the “skidoo door” according to the testimony of the Chief Baker Charles John Joughin.
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
I think it’s more of a 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3
Oh, that’s easy to remember!
I’ve had a bit of a tumble
What about Schfifty-Five?
Three fiddy?
Tree-fiddy came so close to making the list I think but it feels right that it didn’t.
Missing “about three-fitty”
Tree fiddy
Dammit Loch Ness monster…
Where’s 3.50?
Get outa here ya lock ness
It was about that time that I noticed that sweet little verilyfemme was a three story tall crustacean from the Mesozoic era!
Tree fiddy
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
31 is funny in Turkey.
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.
twennyone
