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originally posted by: kloejen
Heard in "Flash Gordon"
Remind you of Article 17 of Ming's Law:
Heard in "Deadpool 2"
This is Convoy 17
departing the Ice Box.
Heard in "Dogma"
Last year, you cheated on your wife
of 17 years eight times.
Heard in "The Idiots"
No, an understandable summary. I've heard 17 different versions.
Heard in "The Martian"
Every 41 hours, there's a 17 minute gap.
Heard in "Niceville"
I done raised 17 kids in my life.
Heard in "Léon"
I have a kid, 17,
does nothing all day long.
Heard in "The Bounty Hunter"
I'm 17. I don't even have a girlfriend. I'm saving all my money for college.
Heard in "Source Code"
His name is Captain Colter Stevens. He's in the 17th Airborne.
...
Wilson, along with co-author Robert Shea of “Illuminatus!” fame, more clearly identifies the 23/17 phenomenon, in that both numbers are tied to the Discordian Law of Fives. The Discordian holybook, the Principia Discordia states that: All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5. To Discordians, 23, a corollary of the law of fives, is considered either lucky, unlucky, sacred to their goddess Eris, sinister, sacred to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos, or significantly strange.
In Illuminatus!, the character Simon Moon illustrates this rational using the following mathematical-numerological-magical formula… in 23: 2 + 3 = 5, and in 17: 1 + 7 = 8 = 2³ ...clear as mud, right?