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/
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
twennyone
Where’s 3.50?
They forgot 37.
My girlfriend acquired 37 limes In a row?!!
There really is an xkcd for everything.
Schfifty-five.
Shiggity shawh
58,008 clearly wins.
That took me so long to figure out, I’m embarrassed
Women and men love it!
Tree fiddy
42 is undeniably the funniest number
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there’s no good direct translation for this)
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?
If you’re gonna include 23 skidoo… You should include being at sixes and sevens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens
67… Is very very old British slang for wrecked/confused, at odds, or hysterical.
“I was all 6’s and 7’s”
Strong Bad made seven fifty funny too :)
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.









