The Counting Thread

[Wooperts_duck]

220 - Wolfram MathWorld
18 May 2011 ... Rule 220 is one of the elementary cellular automaton rules introduced by Stephen Wolfram in 1983

 

[Channonfodder]

Woopert, you really need to get out more and that's quite enough Wikipedia for one evening!

 

[devonFRATTONiser]

221 - 221B Baker Street, home of Sherlock Holmes

 

[devonFRATTONiser]

222 -

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[devonFRATTONiser]

223 - .223 Remington

 

[bladderball]

224. Largest gathering of people dressed as leprechauns.

 

[bladderball]

A mouse has 225 bones. (humans have 206)

 

[devonFRATTONiser]

226 - 226 (number) doesn't have its own wiki page

 

[pompeymeowth]

228 "Pump up your urban active life style with Sennheiser HD 228 headphones".

Exactly the sort of blurb that would make me, personally, not want to buy them!

 

[devonFRATTONiser]

227 - seems to have been omitted! 227 was the highest score ever in the Eurovision Song Contest, achieved by Katrina and the Waves of the UK in 1997, before the Semi-final system was introduced in 2004.

 

[pompeymeowth]

I don't like that number much, too many curves and angles.

 

[bladderball]

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[pompeymeowth]

230. Time to go to the dentist.

Well, someone had to say it.

 

[Leading Fish in Hants]

231 - the Arado 231 was a seaplane design specifically to be launched from U-Boats by the Nazi Kriegsmarine.

 

[Wooperts_duck]

232 - 232 people still unaccounted for after deadly tornado hits Joplin, Missouri

26 May 2011 ... More than 230 people remain unaccounted for four days after the deadliest single tornado in more than six decades tore through the middle of Joplin

 

[pompeymeowth]

233 not out. The score Murray "Muzza" Goodwin is on atm, against Yorkshire, who Sussex are destroying as I type.

Up the Martlets!!

 

[Wooperts_duck]

233 - U Boat U-233 was attacked and sunk by USS Baker and USS Thomas on 5 July, 1944 .

Channon, how very dare you, suggesting all my ideas come from Wiki......

 

[Wooperts_duck]

234 - OCEANS 234: Could be either (a) The finest seafood restaurant on Deerfield Beach serving casual, classic, beach atmosphere for drinks and the freshest seafood in South Florida,

OR

(b) The latest release in the "Oceans" film franchise, i.e. "Oceans 11", "Oceans 12", "Oceans 13"............"Oceans 234"

 

[Wooperts_duck]

235 - Husqvarna 235 Chain Saw

 

[Channonfodder]

I don't know what the significance of 236 might be, but I just wanted to say that this thread would provide the basis for a fair few pub quizzes!