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Below is a comment on some of the "amazing coincidences" surrounding the madness of
11 September 2001. It is seriously silly.
Numerology with a Baseball Bat
I'm sure you've all by now seen the bogus "11 scare:":- The date of the attack: 9/11 - 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
- September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11
- After September 11th there are 111 days left to the end of the year.
- 119 is the area code to Iraq/Iran. 1 + 1 + 9 = 11
- Twin Towers - standing side by side, looks like the number 11
- The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11
- State of New York - The 11 State added to the Union
- New York City - 11 Letters
- Afghanistan - 11 Letters
- The Pentagon - 11 Letters
- Ramzi Yousef - 11 Letters (convicted or orchestrating the attack on he WTC in 1993)
- Flight 11 - 92 on board - 9 + 2 = 11
- Flight 77 - 65 on board - 6 + 5 = 11
But I have some bad news for you -- it's scarier than you ever imagined... - There are 11 players on a football team.
- There are 11 letters in "football team" if you subtract 1 letter, and the number 1 is repeated twice in the number 11.
- There are 11 letters in "bowling pins," and there are 11 pins in bowling, if you take the 1 from 10, and concatenate it with another 1, which desperate bowlers often do on scoring cards.
- There is no word in the English language which exactly rhymes with "11," even if you pronounce it "leb'm" like they do on The Bass Fishing Channel.
- It is a little known fact that neither Kennedy nor Lincoln, both of which have 7 letters, could pronounce the word "11." They both pronounced it "ten-ty-one," which was a huge source of amusement at Washington parties.
- There are 11 letters in "Barry Parham." There are also 11 letters in "Bachelor Pig." Don't even go there, dude...
- Two idiots, standing side by side, look like the number 11, which is also their combined I.Q. Two idiots, lying side by side, look like Bill Clinton and Dick Morris.
- George W Bush has 11 letters, and also has the letter "e" twice, which is 2, which is 1 plus 1, which is sorta kinda like 11.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor has 11 letters. One from each divorce lawyer.
- If I eat 1 doughnut out of the box, I will gain 11 pounds, and there will only be 11 doughnuts left. It will take me 11 months to work off the 1 pound. I believe Nostradamus referred to this as "the glutton of the new dawn, swell up shall he, give or take a month or so, depending on how you interpret it."
- The expression "eleventh hour" is very, very scary, especially if you haven't finished your homework.
- Amazing Grace has 11 letters, if you subtract 1, which is a prominent number in the number 11. Amazing Grace also has 11 verses, but only 11 people on Earth know all 11 verses, and all 11 people live in Kabul, Afghanistan, which would have 11 letters if it were spelled differently.
- I am almost 44 years old, which is 4 times 11. I will be 44 in 9 days, which looks almost exactly like 11 if you squint really hard, or drink a lot.
- And worst of all, you often find American citizens of Arabic descent working at...the Seven Eleven...
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...by
the founder of PM Productions, Barry Parham.
First published by the diaTribe -
September 2001
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