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  1. 3rd eye

    3rd eye Well-Known Member

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    So where have we got to?............ Oh yes, 18

    18 - the age of majority
     
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    19 - The number of the London bus that takes you from Finsbury Park to Battersea
     
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  3. devonFRATTONiser

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    20 - Pompey joined the Football league in 1920
     
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  4. Jamrag

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    21 - the number of the bus that takes you from Portsmouth Harbour to Havant bus station

    (I see as trend starting here :p )
     
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  5. Wooperts_duck

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    22 = Two little ducks :smile:
     
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  6. devonFRATTONiser

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    23 - The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the longest-running motoring event in the world and folows the old A23 road
     
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    The 23 bus .............. <whistle> <laugh>

    takes you to liverpool street station
     
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    24........ Hours in one day
     
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    25 = a quarter of a century.
     
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    26 = the number of sides a rhombicuboctahedron has.
     
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    27 Club - those musicians who have died at the age of 27 (usually drug or alcohol related), including Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, JanisJoplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse
     
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    28 - There are twenty-eight convex uniform honeycombs
     
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    29 = The number of Knuts in one Sickle (Harry Potter money)
     
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    30 - The birthday I will celebrate next year. And the year after that.
     
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    ...... and the year/s after that, after which they'll come along in such rapid succession that it's easier to just stick to one number and go with that for a few decades <laugh>
     
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    31 - well since that's the current topic, it's ten more than my age has been for many years <laugh>
     
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    32 = the number of the car that won the very first Indianapolis 500 race in 1911
     
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    33 - 33 was the number that was discovered to lead to the essential meaning of life (the Bible) in Dan Brown's 2009 novel "The Lost Symbol"
     
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    He was wrong. Everyone knows 42 is the meaning of (and answer to) everything!
     
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    36 is both the square of 6 and a triangular number, making it a square triangular number. It is the smallest square triangular number other than 1




    I also have absolutely no idea what that means <laugh>
     
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