From the beginning of human history, man has attempted to find patterns in every aspect of life and assign meaning to them as symbols. It’s how we communicate meaning to other people and survive in the social world that we live in.
Food, sex, drugs - nothing is sacred from this symbolic interactionism. A prime example of this is numbers. One might think that a construct so mathematically, scientifically pure as numbers couldn’t be corrupted. Indeed, that presumption turns out to be false.
Over time, humorous meanings have been assigned to seemingly arbitrary numbers. With how many there are, it can be tough to remember them all. So then, here is a helpful list, which may be occasionally updated to reflect the times.
| number | description/associated with |
|---|---|
| 34 | lewd drawings of mainstream characters |
| 42 | life, the universe, and everything |
| 69 | sex position |
| 420 | marijuana |
| 621 | popular yiff-hosting service e621.net |
| 666 | the devil |
| 926 | sfw counterpart of e621.net |
| 1337 | leet hacker |
| 8008135 | if entered into a calculator and viewed upside-down, displays “BOOBIES” |