Sergei's Celebration
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Becks played 23 at Real and Julius Caeser was stabbed 23 times.
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Q.P.R vs Brighton And Hove Albion **** Official Match Thread****
- Thread starter RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)
- Start date
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Had to turn over after 5 mins as the guy is a complete cock who also seems to think he's funny too. Is he still banging on about his stopwatch?
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
come on you super seagulls
El Sid
Well-known member
Just noticed what you've done there El Sid--how does El Simmo sound
Splendid. Very Spainish.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Albion CORNER....make it count!!!
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Nor is Conway's shirt.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 26,144
"same again boys, and we could get a win here" 
saafend_seagull
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Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma
"I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.[SUP][2]"
[/SUP]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"[SUP][4][/SUP]—this is referred to as the Law of Fives. The 23 Enigma is regarded as a corollary of this law, since 2 + 3 = 5. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson'sCosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (therein called "The Law of fives" and "The 23 Enigma"), Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance, as well as the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange, or sacred to the goddess Eris or to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos.
As with most numerological claims, the enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias. In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind's power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.
When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn't be like Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, who wrote a mathematical proof that heavier than air flight was impossible and published it a day before the Wright brothers took off. I'm talking about people who found a pattern in nature and wrote several scientific articles and got it accepted by a large part of the scientific community before it was generally agreed that there was no such pattern, it was all just selective perception."[SUP][5]
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In the Illuminatus! Trilogy, he expresses the same view: that one can find a numerological significance to anything, provided "sufficient cleverness."[SUP][6]
More to the point, why is Conway wearing 23 as opposed to 22 or 24?[/SUP]
"I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.[SUP][2]"
[/SUP]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"[SUP][4][/SUP]—this is referred to as the Law of Fives. The 23 Enigma is regarded as a corollary of this law, since 2 + 3 = 5. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson'sCosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (therein called "The Law of fives" and "The 23 Enigma"), Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance, as well as the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sinister, strange, or sacred to the goddess Eris or to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos.
As with most numerological claims, the enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias. In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind's power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.
When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn't be like Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, who wrote a mathematical proof that heavier than air flight was impossible and published it a day before the Wright brothers took off. I'm talking about people who found a pattern in nature and wrote several scientific articles and got it accepted by a large part of the scientific community before it was generally agreed that there was no such pattern, it was all just selective perception."[SUP][5]
[/SUP]
More to the point, why is Conway wearing 23 as opposed to 22 or 24?[/SUP]
brakespear
Doctor Worm
c'mon Albion! 
seagullsovergrimsby
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BHAFC @OfficialBHAFC 55s
A crowd of 17,246 here at Loftus Road for #QPR v #BHAFC with 1800 in support of the Albion. Thank you for your superb support.
A crowd of 17,246 here at Loftus Road for #QPR v #BHAFC with 1800 in support of the Albion. Thank you for your superb support.
smeariestbat
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- May 5, 2012
- 1,731
anyone elses player down?!
SIMMO SAYS
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Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Wonder if Charlie is in the home end tonight?
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Keeps cutting out at inconvenient moments.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
a player down...is it number 23?
Sergei's Celebration
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When i get a shirt of Ebay i always give it a sniff...always nice to know the previous owners musk.
Superseagull69
Active member
Mine keeps dropping in & Out
kevtherev
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They are going to throw the kitchen sink at us. Perfect for a counter attack, but we may need to bring some more pace on.