Robert Krulwich blogs for NPR:
It's a simple question, really, but a cunning one, because the answers are so embarrassingly, voluptuously personal. Alex Bellos thought it up. He's a writer, math enthusiast, and nut.
Here's what he wants: He wants to know your favorite number. Just that. Tell me your favorite, and tell me why, he says.
He's set up a website, www.favoritenumber.net and he's asked people to write in. So far he's had about 13,000 submissions. He wants more.
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The most common reason to have a favorite number is it's the day you were born, especially if you were born on the 3rd, the 5th, the 9th, the 13th. "If you were born, like me, on the 22nd," Alex says, "you are unlikely to choose your birthday as your favorite number." He has yet to find anyone who chose 30, even if they were born on the 30th. "It just doesn't happen," he says. He doesn't know why.
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Meanwhile, there's...
June 31st For Popes is the two-day celebration from June 30th to July 1st for Discordian Popes to symbolically ex-communicate each other! During this celebration, Discordian Popes will symbolically excommunicate each other, then they will de-excommunicate themselves and each other, where they will then excommunicate themselves, and finally de-excommunicate themselves. There are a million different ways to celebrate this day than the before mentioned excommunications and de-excommunications, and there are several millions of different situations that are possible!
Join us every June 30th and July 1st, as June 31st is a long-lost holiday! We will miss you June 31st. Fnord!
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