The Numbers Game

The compound interest and financial success Rule Of 72 is the most important and simple rule of financial success. Learn about it here!

Or there's always M72, one of Messier's globular clusters, discovered in the night of August 29-30, 1780.

 

73 - 73% of Ameicans unable to believe this.

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I figured that message would get edited - I just couldn't find anything else for 73 (other than things that happened in 1973) - and that article was just too funny.

 

74: AK-74, the other Kalishnikof rifle with banana stock. I believe it has a larger clip.

Dwayne

 

75 - the legal speed limit on interstate highways in some states

 

76=The Philadelphia 76'ers; the team who has the biggest cry-baby/worst sports role model, Allen "The Answer" Iverson. What a jag bag.

 

May 25th, 1977 is when Star Wars was first released in the theatres.

 

An old fashioned 78 rpm record. I think my grandparents still have some.

 

79 - Buffy faces off against Dracula in Episode 79.

 

Well Craig, you've just totally endeared yourself to me.

 

80 - The age at which I will open my unopened Star Wars stuff and play with it all. (However, I will not open the food stuff and try to eat it at that time - I think that stuff'll stay sealed at least until the day I die, or an extreme famine hits, whichever comes first.)

 

81 - UN0081, the United Nations classification for hazardous materials for Explosives, Blast, Class A. I've always wanted to have that on a bill at work, that and grenades, but we never seem to do that. I think our company isn't rated for it.

Dwayne

 

82 - 1982, the only year our beloved Milwaukee Brewers made it to the World Series (and not surprisingly, lost)

 

83-Return of the Jedi opened in 1983

 

(19)84- George Orwell's haunting dystopic
novel (the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip
One)

 

The TI-85, probably the first graphing calculator most of used in our math classes.

 

86:

To cancel something; e.g., "Lucas eighty-sixed the idea of creating episodes 7, 8, and 9..."

 

87: 87 model makers worked on Episode 1

 

88: Lines about 44 women, a song by the Nails (Not the Nine Inch Nails, just plain "The Nails") in the 80s. Or, for a more Star Wars-y answer, the robotic hat rack killing machine, IG-88.

Dwayne