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The 27's...

As many of you know, especially if you are one of my former students, I have this thing with the number 27. I don't really want to get into the origins of the 27 right now, I will have to save that for another day.

I would like to share this e-mail that I received the other day concerning the 27. I think that you might find it to be entertaining.

Your site describes almost the exact same set of events that my friends and I have been experiencing for about a year now. We are thoroughly amazed that another person has experienced this, let alone with the same number as us.

We have a wealth of photographic and written evidence, and one of us is also planning to do a short comedy film (The Curse Of 27) based around the number (and possibly a comic, called the Chronicle of 27)

The first incident occurred whilst purchasing sweets. When asked what the price of a Drumstick lolly, one of those present replied off-hand "27 p" for no reason. Upon inspecting the Drumsticks, to our surprise we discovered the price to be exactly 27 p.
At first this coincidence led us to believe the number was lucky, and we noticed in many different locations.

Eventually though, the sheer number of 27s we found led us to believe that 27 was perhaps not as positive a number as we had first believe. A prime example is a building one of us found with a huge 27 on the side. A week later, he attempted to show one of us to the building in question, only to find it demolished.

We await your response.


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  1. Anonymous9/10/2006 8:30 AM

    i have to put a lock on my lab drawer in chemistry and the combo is 0-27-0 haha...made me think of you.


    p.s. please don't break into my lab drawer....haha

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  2. MEC9/10/2006 11:25 PM

    hee hee Joy now I know your combo!

    Mr. H-less I notice 27s all the time, not wierd, huge amounts of time, (I notice 23s) anyway I think of you EVERY time! I hope that this school year's going great for you!

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  3. Matt Harmless9/12/2006 8:50 PM

    23 is also a magic number... :)

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