Already toyed with a similar-though-less-foolish idea.

Incidentally, I went on to an online roulette table in guest mode and put down the max bet on 34 for kicks. It lost. But the current most numerologicaly haunting number in my life came up. Good ol' 23.

That number comes up in my life so often -- too often. And yet not often enough or consistently enough to really...do anything.

so you're into 23 but totally ignorant of the roots of 23?

that's fucking weird, man!

Additionally, Michael Jordan's number was 23.

Extra aditionally, 23 easily becomes 5.

In mathematics

Twenty-three is the ninth prime number, the sequence continues 29, 31, 37, 41,... Twenty-three is also the fifth factorial prime, the fifth Sophie Germain prime, the fourth safe prime, the second Woodall prime, and the second Smarandache-Wellin prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.

23 also has the distinction of being one of two integers that cannot be expressed as the sum of fewer than 9 cubes of integers (the other is 239). See Waring's problem.

23 is a Wedderburn-Etherington number.

23 is a highly cototient number.

23 is the smallest odd prime that is not a twin prime.

23 is the size of the codewords in the perfect (non-extended) binary Golay code.
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In science

* The atomic number of vanadium and the approximate atomic mass (in AMU)of sodium.
* The number of chromosomes in a human germline cell

In astronomy,

Messier object M23, a magnitude 6.0 open cluster in the constellation Sagittarius

The New General Catalogue object NGC 23, a magnitude 12.0 barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus

The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -2145 May 7 and ended on -865 June 15. The duration of Saros series 23 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses.

The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1843 February 14 and ended on -527 April 14. The duration of Saros series 23 was 1316.2 years, and it contained 74 lunar eclipses.

The 23rd moon of Jupiter is Carme

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Occult significance

See also: 23 (numerology).

* The sacred number (along with 5) of Eris, goddess of discord, according to the Principia Discordia; it is the number of the Illuminati.
* Like 13, sometimes considered lucky or otherwise significant (as in the occult writings of Aleister Crowley and William S. Burroughs); see the 23 enigma.
o 23 Skidoo is a title of a poem in Aliester Crowley's book "The Book of Lies - Falsely so Called"
* Robert Anton Wilson's book, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati, lists 23 as a cosmic number with strong connections to arcane magic and synchronicity. Numerous people have claimed to see 23's everywhere (the 23 curse) prior to enormous success and fruitfulness.
o In many other of Wilson's works (especially The Illuminatus! Trilogy) 23 is given special importance. Many Discordians use this number for any number of purposes.
* 23rdian is a person who constantly witnesses the number 23 in high concentration.

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In other fields

Twenty-three is:

* In early 20th century United States slang, it meant to leave a place. (From the phrase 23 skiddoo ; the origins of the phrase are largely unknown).
* Sydney Carton is the 23rd person executed at the end of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
* 23, a German movie about Karl Koch.
* A telegraphers' code meaning "line break".
* The squad number (or jersey number) of various sportspeople:
o Don Mattingly's number when he played for the New York Yankees baseball team. It was retired on August 31, 1997.
o Michael Jordan's jersey number, with the exception of a short period of time, when he played for the Chicago Bulls basketball team as well as the Washington Wizards. The number now has special significance throughout sports, especially in basketball. Many athletes wear the number 23 either as a tribute to Jordan or because they would like to "be like Mike".
o David Beckham's squad number at Real Madrid football (soccer) club, inspired by the aforementioned Jordan.
o Manchester City F.C. have not assigned the squad number 23 to any player since 2003. This is due to the fact that Marc-Vivien Foé, the player who collapsed and died while playing for Cameroon on June 26, 2003, had held this squad number at Manchester City.
o Chris Drury's jersey number for the Buffalo Sabres which is inspired by childhood hero Don Mattingly.
* When mathematician John Forbes Nash suffered from schizophrenic delusions, he said that Life Magazine had run a cover story of him disguised as Pope John XXIII as his name was John and his favorite prime number was 23. Nash published a total of 23 scientific articles.
* The largest integer number of hours in a day.
* The actor Danny Trejo's name in "Con Air" was Johnny 23.
* The number of people (16 females, 7 males) Neo was to select in order to refound Zion in The Matrix Reloaded
* A song of the band Jimmy Eat World on their album Futures.
* ASCII character number 23 is ETB, end transmission block.
* Historical years: 23 A.D., 23 B.C., or 1923
* The smallest group of people where there is more than a 50% chance that 2 people will share the same birth day (day and month, not year).
* One of the "Lost Numbers" on the television show, Lost, along with 4, 8, 15, 16 and 42. According to producers of the show, 23 is the most important of these seven numbers.
* Purple 23 is the parking space where Kramer hides his air conditioner in the Seinfeld season 3 episode "The Parking Garage"
* Psalm 23 of the Bible is possibly the most quoted and best known psalm.
* The standard TCP/IP port number for Telnet connections.

Theoretically, new kinds can be invented as the infinity of primes progresses. An infinite number of primes means an infinite number of kinds. Though there will always be fewer kinds than primes, as there will always be fewer primes than incremental integers.

Status Report: Booze.

I'm re-listening to this, and SHIT. I do sound like Tom Green. Fuck. Also, I swear to God I don't talk that fast in real life.

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im gonna give you a break though,those mikes sucked.