47-l-digest         Thursday, January 1 1998         Volume 01 : Number 009




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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 10:57:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 47 on the road

I just got back from Thanksgiving break.  On the way home and back, I 
saw some interesting things...
In the Columbia River Gorge, there is a sign that says "Burns Bros 
Truck Stop, 47 miles"...
My dad has an office stapler by his computer.  The model number is 
747...
My high time on the Intermediate level of minesweeper is 47 
seconds...
Watching a re-run of I Love Lucy...  Lucy and Desi are in France or 
something...  Their room number is 47...
As you leave the Tri-Cities in Washington/Oregon going east, there is 
a sign that says "Walla Walla 47 miles"...

[submitted by]
Kevin Spenst

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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 10:57:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 47 on the road

I just got back from Thanksgiving break.  On the way home and back, I 
saw some interesting things...
In the Columbia River Gorge, there is a sign that says "Burns Bros 
Truck Stop, 47 miles"...
My dad has an office stapler by his computer.  The model number is 
747...
My high time on the Intermediate level of minesweeper is 47 
seconds...
Watching a re-run of I Love Lucy...  Lucy and Desi are in France or 
something...  Their room number is 47...
As you leave the Tri-Cities in Washington/Oregon going east, there is 
a sign that says "Walla Walla 47 miles"...

[submitted by]
Kevin Spenst

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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 08:36:56 -0800 (PST)
Subject: "it seems to explain everything" 47

greetings - i'm writing on behalf of a group of us folklore students here
at indiana university in bloomington. we are quite ecstatic about the
society. for the past year or so, we have been tracking the occurences of
number 47, based on a rather randomn occurence in our lives: on p.47 of
Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale, a rather intriguing figure
appears. It is Fig.1, and it seems to explain everything. we have
contemplated the association of Fig.1 with the Number, and have since been
awash in occurence of 47 in our lives. in folklore, we might refer to
these independant, yet intimately related, discoveries as an example of
polygensis. until we found the website, we believed we were alone in our
jubilation. the number crops up more often than not, and we relish in what
you refer to as "the quintessential random number." 

[submitted by]
john fenn, on behalf of A.S.S.S

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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:52:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: random 47s

Here are some random 47s:
  -About three weeks ago, the daily Beetle Baily cartoon had a box of parts 
   with the number 47 on the side...
  -Last week, on "The Simpsons" (the angel skeleton one), Lisa mentioned
   City Ordinance 147C...
  -In the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, there was a pack of motorcycles 
   riding together, and the lead one had 47 on the fender...
  -In the recently rerun X-Files epsiode "Ghost in the Machine", the COS
   computer had a column of numbers on it: 1, 4, and 7...
  -This week, Kenny G set a world record for the longest sustained note; he 
   played an E flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds...
  -From the Grinnell College Department of Anthropology Guidlines for 
   Student Papers:
      "Similarly, if Adams quotes a passage from Taylor that you wish
       to use, your in-text citation should be: (Taylor 1985, quoted
       in Adams 1990:47)..."
  -This weekend, a few women were taking an online purity test... One said 
   she was using "the 247" while another laughed at her own test questions
   and said "Look at number 47!"

[Submitted by] 
E. F.

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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:57:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: texas tradition 47

in a 50th anniversary story in the dallas morning news on the tyler
junior college drill, the apache belles, team it was pointed out that
the team was founded in 1947 and currently has 47 members.

[submitted by]
mike lazorchak

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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:03:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: finals 47

so i just wrote my last drama lit paper of the semester, and when
finished, it had 7447 characters.

[submitted by]
camille

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