EDitorial ± 25-Feb-2002
Seventy-Two
You'll need to take my word for it that this document, these words, this tract,
if you will, is EDitorial #72. Digression already: my liking of that US
notation, the "hash" or "sharp" sign to mean "number", can be directly traced
back to buying DC comics as a kid. Cool, as El-Bel is all too fond of saying.
For one week only I've unilaterally decided to promote that section which often gets stuck away at the end of the page, below the vertical scroll-bar. So here, for your consideration, are 72 items in a numbered list.
If You Take Away With You Nothing Else
- Oscar for Best Picture in 1972: The Godfather
- two current BBC trailers use Radiohead tunes underneath
- three children, two hands, one short
- number of chicken nuggets in a Happy Meal
- the fab Crime Scene Investigation is back on Channel 5
- six is sum of its factors, excluding itself
- it's always Doc they forget
- mystic 8-ball says: the stars say no
- should I try to get out of tomorrow's 9am progress meeting?
- Mothercare goes up to ten
- Clooney, Pitt, Roberts, Garcia
- Telly Savalas
- baker's
- B---- H--- R---
- this many Rebus & Rankin novels already?
- hexadecimal 10
- time spent in the bathroom is proportional to age
- the age of majority
- Paul Hardcastle was here
- palindromic day last week: 20.02.2002
- tomorrow's TT game v. Norbridge is week 21
- Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder and Major Major
- that bloke who won Pop Idol was an Exeter graduate
- divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8
- quarter of a century - makes a girl think
- three-cubed minus one
- number of Brooms in the Ipswich phone book, excluding me
- another perfect number
- C---- D----
- my lil' sister was born in 1972
- current contract expires in 31 days (gulp)
- ASCII code for the space character, techy nerds
- 20p plus 10p plus 2p plus 1p
- approx this many leads in Gosford Park
- I'm 35: this becomes 40 with one significant figure
- one step closer to life beginning
- number of members of So Solid Crew
- max num of top quality pictures on 16Mb compact flash
- what is it good for, absolutely nothing
- days of temptation in the desert
- Spielberg, Belushi
- life, the universe, everything
- Best Actress 1972 went to Judy Garland's daughter
- war nearly over
- another great thing: E45 cream
- sweet rationing
- GBP4.70 in Vagabonds for chilli jacket & large cappuccino
- Eric Arthur Blair turned it around and got Big Brother
- a square in the act really sets music back
- nonagon coinage
- a number 1 record in 1972 was the first to use bagpipes
- 7 days times 52 weeks equals 364 days
- do geese see God?
- three-squared times double-three
- Happy Days
- this one always threw me on the times-tables: 7x8
- almost, biopsy, chintz
- my ebay feedback now stands at 58
- Presbyterians is an anagram of which singer?
- soixante
- come in number 19, your time is up
- Gary Powers, U2
- two to the power of six, minus one
- will you still need me, will you still feed me?
- big brother born
- Bobby Moore knows the score
- trombones in the grand parade: typo
- bagpipe record was by the longest-name act ever to top the charts
- Capricorn One, moon hoax
- three-score years and ten, and I'm halfway through
- film title: 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance
- three-squared times two-cubed equals seventy-two
Be seeing you!